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  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 11, 2008 12:42 p.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    I vant to suck your blood!!!

    Just leave me alone.

  • caffecapri

    Nov. 11, 2008 3:18 p.m. caffecapri New Reader

    My wifes.....it say's "arrrhhhh"

  • maroon92

    Nov. 11, 2008 6:59 p.m. maroon92 SuperDork

    is that Miata chewing on a cone?

    that is just Teh awesomes1!

  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 18, 2008 11:20 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    "ACK! I just swallowed a bug! OMG it's still alive! I'm gonna hurl!"

  • captainzib

    Nov. 18, 2008 11:34 a.m. captainzib Reader

  • TJ

    Nov. 18, 2008 12:15 p.m. TJ Reader

    Ok, so not a car, but it does have a facial expression.

  • Trans_Maro

    Nov. 18, 2008 8:51 p.m. Trans_Maro New Reader

    She's mine and her nickname is "pig"

    Shawn

  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 20, 2008 1:22 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    A LeMons entrant:

    Interesting flame work.

  • Gearhead_42

    Nov. 20, 2008 1:34 p.m. Gearhead_42 HalfDork

  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 20, 2008 2:03 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    Gearhead_42 wrote:

    "Whoopie! I'm the happiest car in the WOOOORLDD!!!! "

  • BoneYard_Racing

    Nov. 20, 2008 5:32 p.m. BoneYard_Racing New Reader

    ^ I'm reaoniably content with everything and therefore dont wish to risk offending others by having any personality in my facial expression, that being said I am very pretty.

  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 26, 2008 9:20 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    "This is so lame. I'm getting a headache."

  • MiatarPowar

    Nov. 26, 2008 9:24 a.m. MiatarPowar HalfDork

    TJ wrote:

    Ok, so not a car, but it does have a facial expression.

    Maximum Overdrive! Great cheesy movie.

  • Jamesc2123

    Nov. 27, 2008 11:13 a.m. Jamesc2123 New Reader

    "I can't believe Porsche made an SUV..."

  • GameboyRMH

    Nov. 27, 2008 12:38 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    ^LMAO!!!!

  • GameboyRMH

    Dec. 10, 2008 8:44 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    [special ed voice] "Duhaha, duhahaha wee!" [/special ed voice]

    "I JUST HAD A BAD DAY AT WORK AND I'M BERKELEYING PISSED!"

    (You might not get that one, but if you saw a "murdered out" Hammerite black one with the headlight bezels removed, you definitely would...)

    This should help a little bit:

  • GameboyRMH

    Dec. 12, 2008 12:12 p.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork

    "We are the borg. Resistance is futile. Your race (car) will be assimilated."

  • Volksroddin

    Dec. 12, 2008 1:20 p.m. Volksroddin HalfDork

    GameboyRMH wrote:

    Is there some thing in my teeth?

  • procainestart

    Dec. 12, 2008 5:45 p.m. procainestart HalfDork

    December 9, 2008 Vital Signs Perceptions: Putting a Face Value on Cars By ERIC NAGOURNEY

    Some may look at the front of a car and see nothing but a collection of parts. But for many others, it seems, those headlights are eyes, that grill a nose and the air-intake slots a mouth.

    Not only that, according to a study in the December issue of Human Nature, people who were shown pictures of cars attributed personalities to them — describing them as adult or childlike, masculine or feminine, and dominant or submissive. And most agreed with one another on the assessments.

    “Thus,” the researchers wrote, “there must be some kind of consistent information that is being perceived in car fronts.”

    The researchers, led by Sonja Windhager of the University of Vienna, said that seeing faces in cars was in keeping with the human tendency to anthropomorphize. It may be borne not out of romanticism but from the evolutionary need to survive.

    A co-author of the study, Dennis E. Slice of Florida State University, said that people needed to be able to read faces quickly, and that this might lead them to see faces where none exist.

    For the study, researchers asked 40 people to look at the pictures of cars. More than 60 percent said they could see a face in at least 70 percent of them. They also agreed on their preferences.

    “People seem to like mature, dominant, masculine, arrogant, angry-looking cars,” the study said.

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