"2017 Stigmata? No, that's a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track."
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
"On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws"
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
That's a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn't need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it's due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
Oh shit. I forgot about the 2018 mid quarter decade refresh. They don't usually get that much attention. I'm glad people like you are here to track those changes.
I admit I only know what a Stigmata is because the commercial with the guy with the bleeding hands was cool. Killer ad campaign to release them on Halloween too!
Right? What was it hurting to have some people believe this. Just let people enjoy things, does it really matter whether the shrimp color vision thingy was true or not?
That dress was fucking white and gold, and I'll go to my grave believing the black and blue one was some sort of conspiracy.
Any more, cars change very little between years. Sometimes hard to tell even after a "refresh" in the middle of a generation. My kid thinks it's a superpower that I can tell the differences between generations of Corvettes. Like dude, I've had car magazines in my hands since I was half your age.
Yeah for a lot of cars (such as my own Audi a3 sportback), I'd only be able to give you a fairly wide range of years because whatever changes there were are more or less imperceptible.
Which is totally understandable, really. It makes no sense to retool every single year to make small adjustments like the 50's and 60's. That being said ford made several "generations" of mustang without ever changing the frame. I think of the last 3 full redesigns, they've all shared 2 generations of architecture. That's too long to go without updating the core of the car.
Your husband and I could be best friends because I also have poor hearing and can do the same thing with motorcycles with a pretty high success rate.
We can sit in the same room not talking. Then one of us will think the other said something and yell "Huh?". The other will loudly reply "What?". Then that'll go on for several minutes until we both smile and nod.
😂 that happens sometimes with TV voices. He'll think I said something and I just look at the TV like..."Yeah that was them." He does wear hearing aids, which work well 95% of the time. That 5% when they don't work can be ROUGH.
I consider myself hard of hearing, but only at certain frequencies. I can hear lower (bass) sounds much better than mid range sounds; high pitch sounds hurt like a mother!
I have a very bad sense of smell - not sure if it's technically anosmia but if not it's close - but the few things I can smell, I can smell very well and usually identify pretty quickly.
last time I was in vancouver they had ~2014 dodge caravans too which are absolute dogshit, my family had one for some time. It looks especially dumb with the ramming thing on the front
Exactly, and you can usually guess the model year within a few years, simply by looking at the styling characteristics of the vehicle. It's not too difficult to tell if a car came from the first half or second half of the 90s, for example.
I do notice a lot more made in the last couple years not having any identifying markings. So many EVs that don't even have a company logo on them (sometimes even Teslas don't due to how they are made; it really depends on the day the car was built).
There are also the times the worker didn't put it on or put it on wrong during assembly and it fell off before even going out to the customer. I worked at the Fremont plant; this was pretty common. It's also why I would not own one even if Musk wasn't a huge douche nozzle; they're put together like shit by underpaid contractors and robots that break down every minute and a half.
It has been becoming harder, though.
Not only are most cars looking alike nowadays, but manufacturers are also mostly not putting model name badges on their cars any more... :-(
That didn't even match the designation! I got an "xle" car and was curious what's it meant. You ready for this bullshit? Executive luxury edition! It's the fucking base model! The top end model is called the touring. Like in what world does that make sense‽
From my subjective point of view. I've noticed they pull over older cars. I just gave my cousin my 2005 sonata with 300k. It's brown with faded clear coat on the hood. I got pulled over every other month in that thing despite breaking no laws. Just got a new Avalon and haven't been pulled over once since, despite not having plates on it the day I picked it up.
That definitely became a thing. They think if you have an older car it means you won't have insurance so they'll be able to ticket you. Drug dealers around here used to ride in hoopties (the assumption at the time was that cops wouldn't stop them because they knew they didn't have any money) which probably doesn't help the perception of older cars. They moved on a while back to newer and more invisible cars like slightly used SUVs.
For a while the number of white cars on the road was like 1/3 (the greatest number), black cars made up about 1/5, and red was 5%. But red cars were pulled over the second most.
For me, it's fun being able to identify things correctly. I was playing that color HEX code guessing game for a bit on [email protected], and it's the same feeling.
It's the Merlin app, isn't it? They were all just "birds" to me before I started identifying their calls... and it's a fast pipeline from there to borderline "birdwatching". What has my life become?
I like the way they run around in groups while combing an area for food :) Also they are really pretty from close up, kinda iridescent, with lots of little white spots!
Used a bird call app over in western Melbourne and it insisted we could hear a starling. Bloody things are everywhere in England and I don’t know one when i hear it.
Tbh starlings have an extremely varied repertoire. When I'm passing near a singing one here in Scotland, for the several minutes that I'm in hearing range, it never repeats the same tune. Pretty amazing!
I ran into someone and I said "How's the Corolla Cross?" and she looked at me shocked and said "No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?" I was like "Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla."
Basically, I would've written autistic guide books on local ferns if I'd been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain't found a new bird in a while.
Saw a presentation of someone visting remote islands and discovering new types of ferns. Talked about contributing to the the open database of ferns: https://fernphy.github.io/ Never too late!
I get what you're saying in terms of "anyone can do this if they're willing to devote enough time to a specific / niche subject matter" but I think you're stating it somewhat reductively (and your tone seems questionable but that could just be a textual communication issue).
I find that I have poor rote memorization skills but that I'm very good at conceptual reasoning using lots of different information from very tangentially related subject matters. So I don't know too much about chemistry, metalworking, and sewing on their own, but I know enough to pick out the right fabric, thread, jewelry findings, and dye, and what order to use them in to get a pretty cool result.
I think that ability actually somewhat necessarily comes at the expense of my rote memorization capabilities. To put that in plainer language, I think a lot of people can be in love with the world as a whole or deeply in love with just a few parts of it (me being the former). And while the important thing in the end is that you find something out there in the world to love and accept yourself for loving it, it's also not maladaptive to see someone else do something cool and think,"I might not have time in my life to pick up that skill, but I bet it feels good to be able to do it." And who knows? Maybe if they're envious enough they'll make time in their life to learn how to do the cool thing.
My dad can look up and tell a 767 from an a330 passing over at 37,000ft.
I work as a commercial pilot and tell the difference when ones parked at the terminal still.
It must be some spicy brain shit
All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it's stuck with me ever since.
I never knew one school bus from another, they were all just big yellow boxes. Then I started looking to buy a used one and somehow I can now tell make, model and year of every single one I see. I know what engines and transmissions they all have. I can even tell my district's buses apart from the neighboring district's buses although they're exactly the same buses, even if I can't see the lettering or numbers on the sides. And yet somehow I'm still single!
The difference is that we all come into contact with and have to deal with cars on some level whereas in case of a niche hobby people may not even know it exists. Cars are such a central part of modern life that it feels weird that some people seem to have occult insight into it that others lack. It's both a niche hobby and not niche at all at the same time, in a way.
I think that depends a lot on where you live. The vast majority of my colleagues and friends don't have cars, but we live in large UK cities, so life is easily doable without a car. Even a friend who used to have a car ended up selling it, bc he just didn't use it enough to justify the costs.
I live to go walking with my friend who knows a lot about botany. Where I see 'field' or 'shoulder of road' she sees all different kind of flowers and showers me with their Latin names.
In cities in like that but with history and architecture. It's such a treat to hear people with a differently tuned set of goggles and a passion about a particular topic.
I dated a girl whose dad owned an antiques store. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a fucking trip. She knew what everything was and almost exactly what they would be valued at.
The only downside to dating her was that she would do things like hanging up an authentic "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" poster from the 1930s over her mantel. It was hard to convince her that people wouldn't really appreciate the historicity of such artifacts.
I think the only way to display something like that is alongside allied propaganda from the era. It does all have a very striking aesthetic, so I can understand wanting to display it, but there are limits
I'm perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can't be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can't tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
There's an older Toyota sedan called the crown that actually came with the inline 6 cylinder made famous in the supra. Super boring looking, but incredibly cool car. I pointed one out to an Uber passenger the other day and got the same reaction.
There is both a new Crown and an imported 90s S150 Crown in my area and the existence of the new one always makes me sad because my brain sees it more often than the other one...
Yeah, not a fan of the new one. And they are using it as an Avalon replacement! I fucking love my Avalons! Seriously I've had 3. Rick solid cars all around.
My (who I subsequently learnt very autistic) friend could identify the state of origin of number plates of cars based on their text colour. Some states had number plates written in slightly different shades of blue so this wasn’t that easy.
I'm not autistic, but I get this. It pisses me off when states change their designs AND the color palette, and it's not a huge change. Why not just kick me in the junk while you're at it?
I was a bit like that too, but since I started using Flora Incognita, I'm actually recognising different trees as I'm walking on the street, even without the app 🤯
Thanks, that app looks pretty promising! I've been using Merlin to identify bird calls, and now I've started being able to identify birds by sight or sound without the app
Yes, I love Merlin too! I got the two apps at the same time earlier this year, but tbh I strongly prefer Floria Incognita's location system, that it just plops a GPS marker onto its map, instead of forcing me give a unique name to every 100 metres of a path, like Merlin does 😅
I used to be like that back in highschool/college when I was more into cars. It was fun being able to find the small details of the car to single out which year model it was and stuff like that.
Now, I don't have the time or interested to do that any more.
If you hear a car that sounds like a box of metal shavings dumped in a food processor... That's a Ford Focus. I know them by the sound of the transmission alone.
The Chrysler/Dodge 5.7L V8 "HEMI" engine has a distinct sound as well. They put that engine in all their cars, trucks, and SUVs from 2000 almost to the current day.
When I used to watch commercials^1^, this shit would just register itself in my brain, lurking silently for when/if it comes up. I'm not even a "car guy" by any stretch of the imagination, and credit this mostly to the insidious and brain-worm-like quality of car advertising. For a while there, I could identify most cars just by seeing the shape and position of the headlamps at night. It is/was the most useless superpower, and I'm still a little spooked that one can be low-key programmed like this.
I suppose it's possible to come by this while racking up commuter hours, since the make/model is usually right there on the back of most cars, but that doesn't explain the headlamp thing.
^1^ - I will leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how one might dispose of most advertising when watching shows.
I recognize one particular vehicle that lives near my house quite well, since it looks like Calculon as a werecar. It's even orange. (I think it's a Jeep?)
"2017 Stigmata? No, that's a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track."
"On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws"
That's a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn't need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it's due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
Oh shit. I forgot about the 2018 mid quarter decade refresh. They don't usually get that much attention. I'm glad people like you are here to track those changes.
I admit I only know what a Stigmata is because the commercial with the guy with the bleeding hands was cool. Killer ad campaign to release them on Halloween too!
The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
Can’t have nice things
Right? What was it hurting to have some people believe this. Just let people enjoy things, does it really matter whether the shrimp color vision thingy was true or not?
That dress was fucking white and gold, and I'll go to my grave believing the black and blue one was some sort of conspiracy.
Dammit
Even "sedan" is pushing it. Car, big car, unnecessarily big car, dumpster fire.
Very true.
This comment was made by a pixie.
I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.
But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).
I can pretty much always do make.
Model for fun cars but not boring ones/trucks/vans/suvs.
Year for the outstanding exemplary best model years of the fun ones.
Any more, cars change very little between years. Sometimes hard to tell even after a "refresh" in the middle of a generation. My kid thinks it's a superpower that I can tell the differences between generations of Corvettes. Like dude, I've had car magazines in my hands since I was half your age.
Yeah for a lot of cars (such as my own Audi a3 sportback), I'd only be able to give you a fairly wide range of years because whatever changes there were are more or less imperceptible.
Which is totally understandable, really. It makes no sense to retool every single year to make small adjustments like the 50's and 60's. That being said ford made several "generations" of mustang without ever changing the frame. I think of the last 3 full redesigns, they've all shared 2 generations of architecture. That's too long to go without updating the core of the car.
There are generations. Like the same body style for several years.
Your husband and I could be best friends because I also have poor hearing and can do the same thing with motorcycles with a pretty high success rate.
We can sit in the same room not talking. Then one of us will think the other said something and yell "Huh?". The other will loudly reply "What?". Then that'll go on for several minutes until we both smile and nod.
😂 that happens sometimes with TV voices. He'll think I said something and I just look at the TV like..."Yeah that was them." He does wear hearing aids, which work well 95% of the time. That 5% when they don't work can be ROUGH.
I consider myself hard of hearing, but only at certain frequencies. I can hear lower (bass) sounds much better than mid range sounds; high pitch sounds hurt like a mother!
I have a very bad sense of smell - not sure if it's technically anosmia but if not it's close - but the few things I can smell, I can smell very well and usually identify pretty quickly.
I can recognize Chargers, Explorers, and Crown Vics pretty easily.
Whee - oooo! Whee - oooo!
last time I was in vancouver they had ~2014 dodge caravans too which are absolute dogshit, my family had one for some time. It looks especially dumb with the ramming thing on the front
Reminds me of XKCD 915
https://xkcd.com/915/
https://xkcd.com/2501/
Amazing how there really is an XKXD for everything 😘👌
https://www.xkcd.com/1460/
This is the best response of an xkcd comic I've ever seen
This just... isn't true though. There are tons of things we spend time on and don't become snobs about.
Many people watch a ton of movies but don't care all that much.
Half of them say what make and model they are on the back. That's what those plastic words glued to them are. 🤷♂️
Exactly, and you can usually guess the model year within a few years, simply by looking at the styling characteristics of the vehicle. It's not too difficult to tell if a car came from the first half or second half of the 90s, for example.
I do notice a lot more made in the last couple years not having any identifying markings. So many EVs that don't even have a company logo on them (sometimes even Teslas don't due to how they are made; it really depends on the day the car was built).
Every car comes with badging.
It's not hard to take them off. I'm fairly certain the Tesla's are being removed by the owners or haters
There are also the times the worker didn't put it on or put it on wrong during assembly and it fell off before even going out to the customer. I worked at the Fremont plant; this was pretty common. It's also why I would not own one even if Musk wasn't a huge douche nozzle; they're put together like shit by underpaid contractors and robots that break down every minute and a half.
ooh a mazda miata/mx5 na
The distorted perspective made me think rx7 at first.
I’m pretty good at that and I don’t know why. I guess I just passively pay a lot of attention to car makes/models for some reason.
It has been becoming harder, though.
Not only are most cars looking alike nowadays, but manufacturers are also mostly not putting model name badges on their cars any more... :-(
Except for the models where they put the name in huge indented letters on the tailgate of hatch like the M A V E R I C K.
H o n d a Prologue
So glad I'm not the only one bothered by this one
It's not even a real honda. It's a badge engineered GM.
lol wait what i thought it was a joke spin on prelude, it's real?
well i guess it's still a joke, but honda themselves made it
Yeah, it's their EV crossover that's actually made by GM.
But that's still nothing compared to the huge alphanumeric designators of the olden days:
"Ford Fiesta 1.6 GTI LS 4x4 Sunny Hedgehog Edition"
That didn't even match the designation! I got an "xle" car and was curious what's it meant. You ready for this bullshit? Executive luxury edition! It's the fucking base model! The top end model is called the touring. Like in what world does that make sense‽
R A M
And they're all grey.
My friend had a grey SUV that for the life of me I could not find in a parking lot. So many gray SUVs that all look the same...
I hate the vehicle color trend of Depression Grey. And blue. And mold green.
Blame the cops. They were pulling over brighter vehicles at a higher rate for a long time. May still be.
From my subjective point of view. I've noticed they pull over older cars. I just gave my cousin my 2005 sonata with 300k. It's brown with faded clear coat on the hood. I got pulled over every other month in that thing despite breaking no laws. Just got a new Avalon and haven't been pulled over once since, despite not having plates on it the day I picked it up.
That definitely became a thing. They think if you have an older car it means you won't have insurance so they'll be able to ticket you. Drug dealers around here used to ride in hoopties (the assumption at the time was that cops wouldn't stop them because they knew they didn't have any money) which probably doesn't help the perception of older cars. They moved on a while back to newer and more invisible cars like slightly used SUVs.
For a while the number of white cars on the road was like 1/3 (the greatest number), black cars made up about 1/5, and red was 5%. But red cars were pulled over the second most.
For me, it's fun being able to identify things correctly. I was playing that color HEX code guessing game for a bit on [email protected], and it's the same feeling.
My partner is like this with birds xD
me: "Oh look, a starling!"
him: "Yep, it's a bird."
(though to be fair, he's getting better at it :P)
It's the Merlin app, isn't it? They were all just "birds" to me before I started identifying their calls... and it's a fast pipeline from there to borderline "birdwatching". What has my life become?
I love Merlin :) It helped me learn to recognise so many local birdsongs!
To be fair, almost no one is excited to see a starling.
Id be very sad to see a single starling. They always travel in groups.
I like the way they run around in groups while combing an area for food :) Also they are really pretty from close up, kinda iridescent, with lots of little white spots!
Used a bird call app over in western Melbourne and it insisted we could hear a starling. Bloody things are everywhere in England and I don’t know one when i hear it.
Tbh starlings have an extremely varied repertoire. When I'm passing near a singing one here in Scotland, for the several minutes that I'm in hearing range, it never repeats the same tune. Pretty amazing!
I ran into someone and I said "How's the Corolla Cross?" and she looked at me shocked and said "No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?" I was like "Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla."
Basically, I would've written autistic guide books on local ferns if I'd been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain't found a new bird in a while.
Saw a presentation of someone visting remote islands and discovering new types of ferns. Talked about contributing to the the open database of ferns: https://fernphy.github.io/ Never too late!
Imagine being envious of someone with basic memorization skills.
Where's the envy? Also it's more about being interested in the subject matter than inherent ability.
What makes you think they’re envious?
I get what you're saying in terms of "anyone can do this if they're willing to devote enough time to a specific / niche subject matter" but I think you're stating it somewhat reductively (and your tone seems questionable but that could just be a textual communication issue).
I find that I have poor rote memorization skills but that I'm very good at conceptual reasoning using lots of different information from very tangentially related subject matters. So I don't know too much about chemistry, metalworking, and sewing on their own, but I know enough to pick out the right fabric, thread, jewelry findings, and dye, and what order to use them in to get a pretty cool result.
I think that ability actually somewhat necessarily comes at the expense of my rote memorization capabilities. To put that in plainer language, I think a lot of people can be in love with the world as a whole or deeply in love with just a few parts of it (me being the former). And while the important thing in the end is that you find something out there in the world to love and accept yourself for loving it, it's also not maladaptive to see someone else do something cool and think,"I might not have time in my life to pick up that skill, but I bet it feels good to be able to do it." And who knows? Maybe if they're envious enough they'll make time in their life to learn how to do the cool thing.
I'm very jealous. My memory sucks.
My dad can look up and tell a 767 from an a330 passing over at 37,000ft. I work as a commercial pilot and tell the difference when ones parked at the terminal still. It must be some spicy brain shit
All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it's stuck with me ever since.
I never knew one school bus from another, they were all just big yellow boxes. Then I started looking to buy a used one and somehow I can now tell make, model and year of every single one I see. I know what engines and transmissions they all have. I can even tell my district's buses apart from the neighboring district's buses although they're exactly the same buses, even if I can't see the lettering or numbers on the sides. And yet somehow I'm still single!
Ill marry you and we can ride off into the sunset in your skoolie.
About that: my skoolie only has a single bed. You could have the hammock, I suppose.
Sounds like bad planning.
Or good planning if you hate company.
buddy hammock? :3
Weird, I have been looking to buy a smartphone and I can still not tell them apart.
::: spoiler -- jk I am not on the looking for a new smartphone. Just been thinking of getting one. :::
I feel this way but about people identifying dogs
It’s ginger.
only a ginger can call another ginger ginger... :)
So orange. (I don't actually know if ginger is part of the orange family)
Ginger is actually white, they dye it. Big Ginger is a lie.
I unironically hate dogs
Isn't this the case for any hobby or niche field?
The difference is that we all come into contact with and have to deal with cars on some level whereas in case of a niche hobby people may not even know it exists. Cars are such a central part of modern life that it feels weird that some people seem to have occult insight into it that others lack. It's both a niche hobby and not niche at all at the same time, in a way.
I think that depends a lot on where you live. The vast majority of my colleagues and friends don't have cars, but we live in large UK cities, so life is easily doable without a car. Even a friend who used to have a car ended up selling it, bc he just didn't use it enough to justify the costs.
I don't have a car either, not even a license. There are still cars all around me and most likely you as well.
I pity y'all, the roads are so beautiful to me.
I live to go walking with my friend who knows a lot about botany. Where I see 'field' or 'shoulder of road' she sees all different kind of flowers and showers me with their Latin names.
In cities in like that but with history and architecture. It's such a treat to hear people with a differently tuned set of goggles and a passion about a particular topic.
I dated a girl whose dad owned an antiques store. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a fucking trip. She knew what everything was and almost exactly what they would be valued at.
The only downside to dating her was that she would do things like hanging up an authentic "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" poster from the 1930s over her mantel. It was hard to convince her that people wouldn't really appreciate the historicity of such artifacts.
Maybe she had secret sympathies...
I think the only way to display something like that is alongside allied propaganda from the era. It does all have a very striking aesthetic, so I can understand wanting to display it, but there are limits
Yeah oof. Nazi memorabilia should just be donated to a museum in almost every case.
Whoa!
Spritz
Wipe
Is that a Supra?!
2jz !!!
Yes. This was it for me. I spent enough time in traffic that I just memorized which car was which.
If I go out driving now, which is fairly rare, I'm always going, I don't recognize that car, what is it ??
And the cycle continues.
It's one of those rare 5 cylinder in-line engines with a 3.6L displacement.
Oooooooo
Never thought that using public transportation and riding a bike would come with the perk of not having to learn these things. 😅
I'm perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can't be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can't tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
Always found cats names on their collars myself. Where do you live that they're putting them on the back? And why is that helpful?
A place where the cats are so ugly, they shave their butts and teach them to walk backwards?
No such place. All cats a purrfect.
You've never seen a cathole tattooed with its name, you've never lived
The back labels are why cats sniff each other’s bums when they meet.
My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it's just a regular looking sedan
There's an older Toyota sedan called the crown that actually came with the inline 6 cylinder made famous in the supra. Super boring looking, but incredibly cool car. I pointed one out to an Uber passenger the other day and got the same reaction.
There is both a new Crown and an imported 90s S150 Crown in my area and the existence of the new one always makes me sad because my brain sees it more often than the other one...
Yeah, not a fan of the new one. And they are using it as an Avalon replacement! I fucking love my Avalons! Seriously I've had 3. Rick solid cars all around.
My (who I subsequently learnt very autistic) friend could identify the state of origin of number plates of cars based on their text colour. Some states had number plates written in slightly different shades of blue so this wasn’t that easy.
For them to remember the make and model was easy.
I'm not autistic, but I get this. It pisses me off when states change their designs AND the color palette, and it's not a huge change. Why not just kick me in the junk while you're at it?
OOP can tell a truck from a sedan.
vs
They are both HPV.
That's all I know. :P
Ooh fancy pants over here, able to distinguish colors from each other. Capable of describing things. Having the capacity to tell objects apart.
Basic reading skills and a not completely non-functioning memory is beyond people's abilities?
Don't forget interest. I have 0 interest in learning these things, so they won't stick even if I try. And I've tried.
I'm like this with plants, too.
I was a bit like that too, but since I started using Flora Incognita, I'm actually recognising different trees as I'm walking on the street, even without the app 🤯
Thanks, that app looks pretty promising! I've been using Merlin to identify bird calls, and now I've started being able to identify birds by sight or sound without the app
Yes, I love Merlin too! I got the two apps at the same time earlier this year, but tbh I strongly prefer Floria Incognita's location system, that it just plops a GPS marker onto its map, instead of forcing me give a unique name to every 100 metres of a path, like Merlin does 😅
Whoa, cool app! I hope it has the local flora of Mexico. I've always wanted to learn the names of some of my favorite trees around here.
Shrimps cant see extra colors though. They are just too dumb to mix basic colors in their brain, instead just evolved extra color receptors
2017 chevy stigmaballs
the stig's american cousin's car?
Meh same with dog, tree, flower, architecture, bird, etc, people.
Spanish Revival
I'm more discerning regarding the model of my first car, or similar models. Got used to finding that car in a parking lot, etc.
I used to be like that back in highschool/college when I was more into cars. It was fun being able to find the small details of the car to single out which year model it was and stuff like that.
Now, I don't have the time or interested to do that any more.
Lol, I can tell engines apart just based on sound....
I still have a soft spot for the sound of a boxer engine
oof you shouldn't put engines there
I used to be able to detect a 90s Chrysler/Dodge engine by their sound. It was very distinctive across the whole range.
Not a lot of those survived. Their transmissions sucked ass. I don't think I could do it anymore.
If you hear a car that sounds like a box of metal shavings dumped in a food processor... That's a Ford Focus. I know them by the sound of the transmission alone.
The Chrysler/Dodge 5.7L V8 "HEMI" engine has a distinct sound as well. They put that engine in all their cars, trucks, and SUVs from 2000 almost to the current day.
Sedan? Yeah no. Brown car. Saying sedan makes you sound like some kind of car expert.
Do you know why a chicken coop has two doors? If it had four, it'd be a chicken sedan
When I used to watch commercials^1^, this shit would just register itself in my brain, lurking silently for when/if it comes up. I'm not even a "car guy" by any stretch of the imagination, and credit this mostly to the insidious and brain-worm-like quality of car advertising. For a while there, I could identify most cars just by seeing the shape and position of the headlamps at night. It is/was the most useless superpower, and I'm still a little spooked that one can be low-key programmed like this.
I suppose it's possible to come by this while racking up commuter hours, since the make/model is usually right there on the back of most cars, but that doesn't explain the headlamp thing.
^1^ - I will leave it as an exercise to the reader as to how one might dispose of most advertising when watching shows.
If it's trains or planes on the other hand...
So true. I work on vehicles every day and I still have to look at the logo on the bumper every time
Are you a mechanic?
No I'm just a guy
Word
I recognize one particular vehicle that lives near my house quite well, since it looks like Calculon as a werecar. It's even orange. (I think it's a Jeep?)
That sounds like a modded Jeep. I love that description by the way.
https://youtu.be/6Ykj9sluvYI
Haha thats me. Just was always into knowing what I was looking at. Comes in really handy too.
Knowing the headlight shape of Chevy Impala, and Ford interceptors at night is handy to know when you are speeding towards a cop on a lonely highway.
Part of the reason I learned quick;)
Never had a ticket though.