Originally Posted By: oil_film_movies
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
There's a local guy with one that has massive "52MPG" vehicle stickers plastered all over it so the world knows just how much better he is than everybody else
Similar to people who need to drive "Big Horn" pickups and SRT's ... trying to show everyone why they need it to compensate for other uh, er, "shortcomings" as we'll say. (See OVERKILL's signature rides to get that joke.)
The reality is car enthusiasts can see MPG as performance/engineering just as much as any other aspect.
Not quite
My SRT only says SRT on it in tiny letters on the rear gate. Otherwise, it looks just like a regular Grand Cherokee, there's nothing "flash" about it, and I don't have massive "SRT" stickers on it telling everybody its an SRT, which would be the equivalency here. It has stock exhaust and is subsequently only loud when you are on it.
The truck? That's my wife's. It's an EcoDiesel, we bought it because we needed a truck, it's good on fuel, I don't have a massive "8L/100Km" badge on the back window of it proclaiming that factoid, because nobody cares except us and the world doesn't need to know.
Being an automotive enthusiast and having built a few reasonably quick cars, there's nothing impressive about your ride being a rolling billboard, be it for your gas mileage or the aftermarket parts you might or might not have. It's no different than the 1' tall "Cavalier" badge on the windshield of a J-Body or the equivalent on a Civic.
It's not the affront to hotrodding that putting "Type R" stickers on your mom's stock 1.5L Civic is, but it's still pointless attention trolling, no different than spinner rims, dubs or the stretched tire look/"stance" crowd.
I learned quite some time ago that often, some of the most impressive cars are quite unassuming. It can be a dead quiet GN or the nice little 535RWHP Fox coupe a buddy of mine drove. Some of the most obnoxious, often driven by imbeciles, can be the least so.
So yeah, when I see a guy with huge stickers on his vehicle telling me his gas mileage, I assume, probably rightfully so, that he wants me to know, otherwise why put them there? And if he wants me to know, he wants me to be impressed. He wants me to be impressed because he's proud of it, and the combination of these things means he's likely quite smug about it and likely, and I could be wrong, but likely, makes him a DB. That doesn't mean he's any more of the DB than a guy with a lifted Chevy Duramax with straight exhaust and a tuner blowing black clouds down the road; probably less so, but it's the same concept.
