Lol no

I might be curious about the car itself, just to figure out how it may or may not differ from my own, based on the year it was made, but I don’t give two shits about the driver. I generally don’t like other people, and car brand ownership makes no difference in this equation.

Used to drive a Tank 1995 Volvo 940, and more than a few times did someone approach me to talk to a fellow “vintage Volvo enthusiast”.

Now that I drive a 2019 Volvo XC90 T8, people assume that I am a Volvo enthusiast based on the fact that I’ve had two Volvos in a row. The truth is that I really liked the durable tank that was my old car, and I really like the comfort of my new car. They are not similar in any shape or form. They just happen to both be Volvos.

Definitely! I have an MX5 (miata), and the camaraderie between strangers is great. Majority of people will wave to each other as they drive past and I often get stopped for a chat in petrol stations etc. It’s one of the reasons I would really hate to get rid of the car because it’s just an extra dose of fun compared to everything else I have owned.

Nah, most brands have customers that treat their car like an appliance. They aren’t interested in a shared culture around their car. Jeep specifically cultivated that culture through “its a jeep thing” advertising, and it’s since taken on life of its own. Some other ones I’ve seen though

VW owners will throw up peace signs to other owners. Especially popular with Beetle drivers.

Mini cooper owners act like golden retrievers and start flashing their lights and wiggling the car when they see each other.

Subaru WRX/STI owners leave each other little bottles of vape juice

Prius Club member local 619 checking in

Only because they don’t make them anymore. I always give a 👋🏼 —or a 🤘🏼 if their stickers are funny. 😋

When I drove a pickup? Lol no pickup drivers are 99% assholes and pieces of shit.

Now that I’m driving an older model car? Also no, I see a parts bin I can pillage when my car dies.

Not really, but Subaru owners are (especially the Outback, Crosstrek or any of the wilderness models) are a bit of a cult.

Some people make the things they buy and own a big part of their personality.

I don’t know why. To me, a car is a box with wheels that I use to get from point A to point B. My main criteria for judging a car is miles per dollar.

Somehow a little bit, yeah

The way lemmings see their cars is the way normies see their computing devices.

yes

(i don’t have a car)

Always. I don’t make a big deal out of it but i do notice and feel connected.

I currently have a common car but it’s fun when you have an uncommon car and so have your own exclusive club!

But either way, I think it’s normal (for people who care at all about cars). Us humans are wired for connection, after all.

I drive a Jeep and don’t feel a kinship with Jeepers. I used to. Mine is a 2001 and in those days I could drive across town and see 1-2 other Jeeps. We’d wave, and if we stopped at a red light next to each other, there’s a good chance we’d talk and possibly invite each other to go offroad or even just stop and have a beer or something. Most Jeepers knew their Jeep inside and out and had built, modified, installed and worked on every inch of them.

Nowadays, it’s weird. There’s 3-4 Jeeps at every red light, so why wave? A lot of Jeeps are superhero or cartoon themed which is the dumbest most childish shit to me. There’s orange Nero jeeps and blue Dory jeeps, green Shrek jeeps, and they’re all covered in so many damn LED lights they could signal Jupiter. I’ve never got into the duck thing either.

That’s enough of an old man rant. I won’t get into how I’ve seen Jeep events cancelled due to light sprinkles, how Jeep “offroad shops” mostly just sell LED lights and Jeep branded clothes now, or that time a trail leader interrupted me giving excellent advice to a Jeep experiencing brake fade coming down a mountain, to recommend taking the Jeep to the dealer.

The only car “club” things I’m ever curious about have more to do with what you do with your car, rather than what make and model you drive. Autocross, track days, Gambler 500, things like that.

Otherwise, make and model don’t matter to me, I’m just delighted whenever I see anyone else driving with a manual transmission.

When I had my Kia Soul I would joke about sharing the “Hamy nod” (referencing the dope hamster commercial Kia used years ago), which was unbridled poppycock. Not even the drivers of the two other identical vehicles in town would even look my way, let alone nod, wave, or acknowledge we drove the same vehicle.

Hyundai Kona? LOL, I may as well be invisible.

Unless you’re in a Miata, Jeep, Harley, or some other extremely rare vehicle, it’s just not a thing so far as I can see.