Can't put my finger on it, but I've been shopping for a new car. Looking for v8 RWD and test drove some Challengers today. They make me instantly think of douchbags, like if I drove one for more than a week I'd wake up with a soul patch. Is it because it's pre packaged "cool", something you can just walk into a dealership and buy.. dunno, can't put my finger on my disdain for most modern cars.
I keep looking at newish cars, but the taste keeps pushing me back to 80's,90's, and early 2000 models which are secretly 80s-90s design.
That's pretty much it.
When I first read your title I thought you were commenting on people who participated in grm challenges.
Just practice saying "Bro" a lot and you won't have to grow the soul patch.
Not that I necessarily think a car makes the person (else I'd be a teenage sidewayz- Monster Energy-hat-wearing person since I drive a WRX), but almost every time I'm near a Challenger R/T or SRT in traffic, the driver feels the need to do something douchey - whether it be unnecessary revving, or hard launches from a light, or a 90mph right-lane pass.
belteshazzar wrote:
When I first read your title I thought you were commenting on people who participated in grm challenges.
Ya me too.
On the other note................all the new C7 convertible driver's around here I see have the sideways cap, big necklace, wrist draped over the steering wheel thing going on.
Chargers seem to be to attract the dudebro douchebag around here.
irish44j wrote:
...the driver feels the need to do something douchey - whether it be unnecessary revving, or hard launches from a light, or a 90mph right-lane pass.
Hell, I do that in my Accent on my way home from work every day. 
All the Challenger/Charger drivers around here are mostly ghetto trash blaring music with smells of the devils lettuce being emitted from their car.
Then the others are douchebags
There was an auto-x I went to a while back, guy showed up in a SRT8 Challenger with a supercharger on it, had 5 point harness and Hans device, full on fire suit and IIRC forced air helmet. It was quite a sight.
He ran the slowest raw time of the day I'm fairly sure.
I dont care what the stigma is, out of all the "pony cars" the challenger is the one I want the most. Really want.
I thought this was going to be about challenger/charger guys revving incessantly and doing full burnouts in place while waiting for the light to change...with a line of cars in front and behind - cause that's been my experience with them. I guess they think the FR-S is a threat or something and do a fight/flight response...LOL
I have to admit... I am driving a new Challenger this week and kind of like it.
There is something about a muscle car... And yeah I hear you about the D-bag aspect of it. Still, I kind of liked it.
You can class it up a little if you wear a leopard skin smoking jacket.
Tim Suddard wrote:
And yeah I hear you about the D-bag aspect of it. Still, I kind of liked it.
I'll take my new Challenger in bright green pearl
http://www.dodge.com/assets/images/mod-colorizer/challenger/2015/2015-challenger-vlp-colorizer-sublime.png
around here.. anything-hemi is usually driven by a d-bag. The ram trucks are the worst here. They have to speed everywhere and if you are going slower than them, they will ride your back bumper until you get out of the way.. even if you are already 10 over
Personally I don't take much stock in stereotypes like that - if someone is a d-bag, it doesn't matter what kind of car they're driving.
Around here all the dbags are in lifted rams. Challengers are driven by older men and women. Still want one though.
No one is mentioning Devils lettuce? Really? Well ok then.
nocones
SuperDork
7/19/15 10:24 a.m.
What happens if you own a challenger, a Miata, a windowless van, a BMW, and a forester?
mad_machine wrote:
around here.. anything-hemi is usually driven by a d-bag. The ram trucks are the worst here. They have to speed everywhere and if you are going slower than them, they will ride your back bumper until you get out of the way.. even if you are already 10 over
I'm with you on Ram guys.
My gf's neighbor has a certain gentleman caller with a quad cab Hemi Ram that can't ever seem to park in one of the designated spots in front of said neighbor's townhouse. Instead, he has to be 90 degrees to all other cars and right behind my gf's designated spots, which makes it extremely difficult for either of us to get out with out doing the forward-reverse routine half a dozen times. It just bothers the hell out of me because I'm pretty sure the point of parking how he does is solely to attract attention to his 10+ year old truck. Other such attention seeking behavior I have observed from him include (poorly executed) burnouts in the parking lot as well as the omnipresent blare of subwoofers any time he comes or goes.
Yesterday morning we happened to observe that all four of his windows were left wide freaking open during a fairly substantial rainstorm. Think we knocked on the neighbors door? Karma's a bitch 
There are a lot of Challengers on the roads here. I mean, more than I thought they sold total. They are almost as common as Mustangs. I don't see any more DB behavior out of them than anything else. Actually I'd say Jetta's are the worst. Anytime someone is running a red light they are in a Jetta.
e46potenza wrote:
No one is mentioning Devils lettuce? Really? Well ok then.
I figured I was the only one who'd never heard it before. It's definitely been annotated for future reference. 
nocones wrote:
What happens if you own a challenger, a Miata, a windowless van, a BMW, and a forester?
Well if you tow the Miata with the windowless van, I'm pretty sure a rainbow sticker on the back of the Miata and a NAMBLA sticker on the back of the van are requirements.
oldtin
UberDork
7/19/15 1:14 p.m.
By looking at their ads and marketing, I'm assuming they are marketing directly to the d-bag audience segment and doing it well.
I had not noticed this trend at all. I think they're cool cars regardless of their owners.
Yet another thread about hating on cars and their owners by supposed car guys. Quickly becoming one of the most closed minded groups of car guys on the web (second only to Corner Carvers, I swear).
