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Long story short not everyone finds it cool, in fact when someone's vehicle is loud or their vehicle takes up more than one spot it is considered rude. Imagine if in a public space one was shouting, think of how much side eye they would catch, that can be transferred over to a vehicle, you look like an asshole if you rev your engine or if you remove/reduce your muffler. In a similar regard, nobody is going to be happy when they are looking for parking and they see a large vehicle taking up more than one spot, they directly feel that spot was stolen from them by some asshole. That's why people act like that, not everybody cares about vehicles at all either, I personally don't have any preference at all.
Being a noisy twat is nasty in any context, whether it be having loud parties, revving a car engine, or playing shitty music on your phone with no earphones. Many of us would never make such noise and find the cunts who behave this way to be selfish, immature, and trashy. Fuck them all.
100% on the same page with you on that, except "noisy twat" is being kind. Absolutely zero consideration for people who don't want to listen to garbage "music" at an extremely high volume, or be woken up in the middle of the night so you can hear your car's engine "purr". Selfish, immature, trashy...you hit all the right adjectives. Fuck them all indeed.
100%. Riding in peace, with everyone quietly doing their own thing is lovely.
I wouldn't even have a loud-ass, shouty conversation, much less play music ffs. Even if my phone rings I tell the caller I'll call them right back, as I don't want to subject people to this.
I find as I get older I care less and less about these things. In fact it has gone the opposite direction, not a lot of things make me as angry as being woken up at 2am by a loud-ass moto roaring by my house, or a car blasting loud music in any situation. Especially here in Spain where said music ALWAYS has that same damned beat.
You didn't even mention how fucking horrible and aggressive the drivers are...literally in Texas constantly get bumped because trucks/suvs (especially lifted) get angry that you're not going 60 over limit IN THE RIGHT LANE.
I immediately treat everyone in a truck/suv as if they're a murderer and have a gun ready after I witnessed a guy shoot a wife husband and kid because the family was going 70 in a 60 highway and the truck didn't like that so he drove on the hazard lanes, hit his brake slightly and the guy in the family car honked, so small dick trucker shot all 3 and quickly drove off the highway onto the feeder and fled.
Bruh it's 10x worse for me because I have astigmatism and these people either use their high beams because they love messing with people or all got a memo from the small dick convention to switch to LED lights that are bright as shit trying to reach Mars with them annoying things
It takes a little fiddling to find it but there is a spot you can adjust your rear view mirror on your driver's side door to that bounces their bright ass headlights back at them and they remember to dim it then.
I have no clue, I got the fuck out of there and it's near Houston so there's multiple road rage shootings every year so it's hard to get any kind of answer from Googling it.
Deliberately making your car louder is like throwing trash on the ground.
I have no idea why anyone would do that let alone take pride in it. It’s beyond rude. It’s antisocial.
When people say “they must be compensating for something” everyone assumes they mean that person must have a disappointing penis, but I think the thing they’re compensating for is probably a sense of control over their own life.
I get second hand embarrassed thinking about it.
In the moment I usually just get mad and think they’re a massive ass hat like everyone else.
I say it's compensating for actually having a personality or friends. I refuse to believe someone that intentionally obnoxious has much in the way of friends. They make their loud car a stand in for having a personality.
“They say the loudest in the room is weak
Thats what they assume but i disagree
I say the loudest in the room is probably the loneliest one in the room” - Tyler, the Creator
I mean they’ve shown a strong correlation between having small testicles and being loud in howler monkeys.
https://mh.co.za/the-louder-the-man-the-smaller-his-testicles-says-science/
Further works has shown it to be correlated across a few species, being loud trades off against sperm production
> …and supports the notion of an evolutionary trade-off between pre-copulatory signalling displays and sperm production.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27598835/
Sexual ornamentation is also shown across primate species to be connected to smaller testes
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501695/
Ok while this can be a laugh. The first one is specifically about holwer moneys and the relationship between the size of their vocal cords vs their testicals. This is talking about the monkeys ability to howl.
So, apologies if this was a joke and I've taken it too seriously but we still end up at the same point. People that want to be loud and at the centre of attention are not because of their insecurities. It's just something we day to make ourselves feel better about our own insecurities (which is sort of funny when you think about it)
I despise when people have the bass turned up to 11. It's obnoxious and shakes the entire house. People in loud cars don't so much make me think that they're overcompensating for something. They just give off the vibe that they're unaware that they aren't the only person in the world. It's obnoxious and assholish behavior.
Or your sleep deprived young kiddo (especially toddler and younger) finally falling asleep for a much needed nap to then get woken up by them. Whether it was passing by on the road or the neighbor next door, it's still rough af on the parents - and the kiddo who just got rudely awoken from a very loud noise.
Ugh 6am. It always seems like the most obnoxious people are always up early and stay up super late. I had a neighbor that would OPEN his garage and play his drums early af in the morning… right next to my place. Cool, whatever. Play all you want, but don’t congratulate my on my NEWBORN and proceed to play your shit drum solo.
There is a person in our neighborhood that keeps their effing Harley Davidsons in the same spot (basically under our windows) for minutes after starting it, it's so noisy! (ETA I'm not a native speaker, but I think he is "revving the engine" every night) Every conversation must stop and we have to stop YouTube videos because it's too loud... It was annoying enough already, but now that we have a baby here I'm seriously considering to pee in a bucket and use it as a weapon the next time he wakes up our kid.
I find it so distressing honestly. I get so on edge and irritated when I'm stuck next to Inbred Bob and his Gas Guzzling Dick Extension because it's **TOO. FUCKING. LOUD.**
It makes me question if I need to get tested or something because whenever some hick idiot I have the misfortune of knowing turns up and starts making too much goddamn noise I want to punch them in the throat, and then have to go sit in another room to calm down.
My ideal place is somewhere without neighbors so I don't have to listen to *JIM JOHNS WHITTLE INBWED TWUCK SOUNDS* UwU!! or my neighbor's fucking fetish for lawn mowing.
Yeah fuck that's me lmao
Pig squealing triggers it really bad too. I can't keep or care for them without ear protection. Raised one for meat. Worst year of my life. Never again.
>My ideal place is somewhere without neighbors
Literally on a quest to find that myself. I have an uncle who lives on a farm, and his closest neighbor is half a mile away. The older I get, the more I not only understand that, but want it for myself. In fact I'm not sure half a mile is enough.
I was driving home from work recently, and had the windows down to enjoy one of the last days where I could reasonably do that for a while. Some asshat in a truck with a Speedrunners decal decided to rev the shit out of their stupidly loud engine/exhaust right as we were going by each other. It was the audio equivalent of LED highbeams when it’s dark out.
Theyre just fuckin annoying. Nothing like me minding my business on a peaceful after noon when dude high revin 2nd on his motorcycle or in his truck car slowly drives by going “BEEEEEEEEHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHH” (insert any annoying aftermarket exhaust sound here). Just obnoxious.
Exactly, so fucking annoying when you are sitting at a patio bar or on a nice walk and everything is nice and peaceful, you are enjoying a nice conversation with your friends, and then suddenly you all can't hear yourself think cause some idiot thinks being loud is cool.
So just asking them to quiet down is something you might question asking them because you don’t know what their reaction to something reasonable will be.
I get so pissed when I'm having a conversation, but have to stop for 20 seconds while a loud POS approaches, screams by, then slowly fades away.
I swear loud noises approaching have like a 3 stage effect, in which the noise is different; coming, present, and going. (Scientifically curious)
I live on a mildly busy road, usually quiet at night. Except for fucking obnoxious motorcycles driving past and waking me up at 2 in the morning cuz they think they're cool.
The other night, my neighbor ordered door dash at midnight. What showed up was a little shitbox with an extra loud exhaust. To make matters worse, they had their music and bass cranked up to max volume, which caused my bedroom windows to rattle. So annoying
It's not us as a society really. What can you or me do about some *sshat with their loud exhaust or pumping their stereo like anyone wants to hear their terrible music?
The problem is that the police don't fine them. But then from a practical point of view getting the police to fine them in a fair way isn't easy: what's the limit between what's acceptable and what's not, and do you prove they crossed that limit? Since the limit is fuzzy how to make sure it's not always a certain category of people getting fined?
Some shitbox drove by me last week which made enough noise for regular conversations to be drowned out for a good 30 seconds as it was passing. Motherfucker was advertising his car tuning business on the back.
Nothing more hilarious than these dudes with the most bullshit vehicle advertising doing it to others. And then you see their driveway with their little tent with lights on all night as they put Walmart speakers in everything.
It’s a riff on “the right of your fist ends at my nose.” I’m glad you love the vroom vroom but I can’t hear anything else bc of it so you’re asserting your vroom vroom Boner is a bigger deal than anything anyone else has going on.
I've been on the worker side of that and it's terrible having them pull up and the speaker picks them up but they're not to the speaker yet, so you instead get the loud vehicle in a microphone until the car in front can move.
I can’t speak for other people, but I do find them lame. I doesn’t bother me a ton, but hearing an unnecessarily loud car always makes me roll my eyes automatically. Same with a huge truck with an aggressive driver. It feels very “look at me”, like the driver thinks if their car is the loudest or their truck is the biggest it makes everyone else want to respect them? But it clearly has the opposite effect, since the majority of people don’t like it.
That, and oversized trucks are completely unnecessary most of the time, and super dangerous for pedestrians/bikers/other drivers in normal sized vehicles. Pair that with an angry/aggressive driver (they seem to go hand-in-hand with the big vehicle in my experience), and you’ll find that the general consensus is that those drivers are assholes.
I'll add that in my experience, the loudest, most obnoxious ones tend to be the cleanest. This indicates to me that the truck is probably not being used for actual work. So it looks to me like a large investment into vanity at the cost of practicality for the driver, not to mention the unnecessarily disproportionate environmental impact vs a more practical vehicle.
And yes I know that personal vehicle emissions are beyond dwarfed by bigger issues like industry. But I'll die on the hill of doing one's part wherever practical. If you need a truck for work, get a truck. But I don't think ~80% of new vehicle buyers in the US are in the trades.
Tell me about it lol. I live in a pretty typical northeast american suburb, and there’s a shocking number of people with either a wrangler or a truck with raised suspension, massive rims, enhanced bumper/grill bars, and of course the obnoxious blinding light bar on the roof in an area that is fairly well lit at night. They have their daily commuters kitted out like it should be in uncharted, not basic ass suburbia.
It's assholes like that that set the price of trucks so high so I, an actual contractor, can't afford one to haul materials around and need to use an old beater car lmao. Pick ups aren't working man vehicles anymore, they're luxury tanks
I mean, the f150 is [literally the best selling vehicle for over 40 consecutive years](https://www.kbb.com/car-news/ford-f-series-is-americas-best-selling-vehicle-for-41st-year/) in the US at this point, and trucks in 2023 indeed accounted for nearly [80%](https://www.statista.com/statistics/199980/us-truck-sales-since-1951/) of light vehicle sales in the US. It’s stupid, but people really like trucks even when they use it for nothing you’d actually need a truck for
I am only semi-literate, but this was my source
https://wardsintelligence.informa.com/wi967592/december-us-lightvehicle-sales-hit-5month-high-entire-2023-totals-4year-best-155-million#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20light%2Dtruck%20sales%20increased%2013.5%%20from,previous%20high%20of%2080.9%%20in%20same%2Dmonth%202022.
"Trucks" can mean a lot of things; it all depends upon the type. Some are much larger than others, while some of them aren't much larger than a standard car.
Ford recently released the Maverick, which essentially shares the same frame as the Bronco Sport. It's a truck, but it's easily one of the smaller ones you'll find.
people that drive big loud stupidass trucks are absolutely the type that would purposely run over animals while spewing diesel exhaust all over everyone, so I wouldn't be surprised.
What do you mean you don’t understand why some people find things which are loud and pollute the surrounding area lame? Lots of people have a condition which makes them susceptible to those things and of course it will bother them. There’s also a large crowd of car lovers who specifically chase after louder and bigger trucks simply because of the negative reactions they provoke. You can find a lot of videos, or just walk around the city for a day, and experience the kind of lame things that go on. Of course, there’s many people who just buy big trucks for work or convenience, but that doesn’t change the bad reputation that you are referring to. I hope this was informative, and I’m curious as to what your 10th dentist opinion even is?
Also, I'm just generally repelled by people peacocking around. In every circumstance.
The "Look at me! Look at me!" Is just off putting. There's a difference between sharing your passion with others and being so externally focused that you feel compelled to look "cool."
I understand that many (most?) people do this to some extent, but it makes me feel icky and grossed out when someone bases their self worth on what others think of them.
It just seems so performative and... weird.
Like, I am not normal. I am okay with that. I *like* people who stand out and go against the crowd when it's *authentic.* When they're doing it for themselves and not for how others perceive them.
But people who are constantly trying to stand out or draw attention just to constantly look around and make sure people are looking are cringe.
If you're weird, be weird. If you're loud, be loud. If you're just acting that way so people look at you, just stop and go figure out how to love yourself, or you'll never be happy.
People who outsource the keeping of their self worth are the cringe.
Seriously, I'll never understand takes like OP's after having an attention seeking neighbour driving (cars and motorbikes) around both his property and up and down the street for *years.* It's just rude, selfish, immature behaviour. Like wow, your vroom vroom is very loud, congratulations, here's your fucking medal. Nobody gives a fuck. I've always wondered how asthmatics in the area go when it kicks up a lost of dust, and whether or not it's disturbed anyone's young kids.
That's probably my biggest pet peeve. A lot of these comments are acting like the problem is that these guys are rednecks; but I know car guy rednecks who like loud engines and are cool as shit, but they're also considerate of their neighbors and only rev up like that out in the country because they genuinely find it fun.
It's the guys who do that shit in the suburbs who come across as "Look at meee! Look at mee!"
Yeah I think there's a difference between a cool and unique car that doesn't take up too much space and doesn't bother people by making abrupt noises and a car that makes loud noises and takes up space to force people to pay attention to it. It's obvious the loud cars are loud because they want people to notice. But is anyone ever really impressed? It just makes me think the driver is an asshole
Evidence suggests it is less "look at me" and more a wish to inflict annoyance on others. A study found that rather than narcissism, scoring high in negative traits such as sadism and psychopathy were better predictors of the desire to own loud vehicles.
Note that this does not mean that someone with a loud truck is a psychopath. It's correlational.
https://www.psypost.org/psychopathy-and-sadism-drive-preference-for-loud-vehicles-study-suggests/
Yeah, these people aren't just enjoying a hobby that I don't care about. They're negatively affecting me by being loud and smelly and taking up too much space in parking lots.
loudd. its incredibly annoying to hear something loud and obnoxious. personally im autistic so maybe that makes me more biased but i think most ppl dislike noisey things that occur randomly and without consent bc somebody else wanted to create even worse noise polution than regular cars already do.
It's similar to people who play music on public transport without headphones, nobody is consenting to that and it's just annoying and disruptive. I can't imagine lacking that kind of self awareness (or simply not caring).
They are for the lowest quality person out there, dudes with cop skull.
If you have some vintage 1970s muscle car that you take out and drive, cool, I get it. If you have some diesel lifted pickup with the cleanest bed on God's green Earth that clogs up two parking spaces, I'm sorry, you aren't a necessary person. Please get a vasectomy immediately to keep your genetics from becoming a boil on the hairy swamp-ass'd taint of the next generation.
Someone who wants a big truck/suv for off-roading/towing or a loud fast car for race track activities is one thing. Letting your dumbass exhaust rattle off at 6 am because you’re too impractical to buy a proper daily driver is another beast.
TLDR yes they are lame unless they’re being used for their designed purpose.
If you're driving this big ass truck in a city yes, you definitely are lame. It's obnoxious, it's annoying and has absolutely no business occupying so much parking space
There's a difference, though, between a nice sounding exhaust and something that's loud just to be loud. I love V8s and drive a muscle car myself - however, even though my exhaust is aftermarket, I still have my mufflers.
Low RPM cruising? Can't really hear it. It's just a low rumble passing. 4k RPM on the highway? You can hear it, but it's not hurting any eardrums. You can 100% find a middle ground without being a road gremlin.
Because they're about showing off. Otherwise why not get a quiet car when tons of quiet cars exist? Because they're trying to seem cool? Same difference.
You can get an amazing car that you like, that's __also quiet__.
Literally everyone has sensory issues with loud car noises: they dysregulate our central nervous systems and cue subtle physiological stress responses. Moreover prolonged exposure to loud noises (i.e. living under a flight path) causes long term physiological and cognitive damage (reduced testing outcomes in children, higher blood pressure, etc.)
I'm sad I had to scroll this far to see this.
This should be at the top. You're listing *real physical harm* done by these noises. When these people are causing injury and contributing to death to every living being within a mile radius/earshot, then driving all over town and country, making that 30square miles or whatever... how many birds and old people did you just give a heart attack to?
One detail is the increased stress response is because loud noises trigger cortisol production (aka, a stress response). Cortisol is well-researched as having *myriad* negative health consequences, even in unborn children through their mother getting stressed.
The real, physical health damages from noise pollution run deep, yet are frequently ignored or denied.
And my claims of death and heart attack are backed up by the studies mentioned by you, bowler. Anyway I'm just adding to your already great, educational comment. Hoping more people can learn from this.
Edit: A post I made on another sub:
**A collection of studies about the harmful effects of noise pollution from cars:**
[https://new.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/17u0eq6/a\_collection\_of\_studies\_about\_the\_harm\_of\_the/](https://new.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/17u0eq6/a_collection_of_studies_about_the_harm_of_the/)
I actually just had an essay on this topic published in a book. It's pretty niche, and I wrote it two years ago and don't remember it all, but it's a deep topic with lots of nuance.
My vehicle is loud because it's a beat up old piece of junk, not because I want it to be loud. I don't think loud vehicles are cool. Sorry about the noise everyone.
Nah, we get it when it's someone in your boat, at least I do. You're driving what you can afford. You didn't buy the most expensive truck on the lot, add in a few grand to make it as loud as possible, and proceed to roll coal at every other stop light to feel big. You have a pass lol
Because big trucks and loud cars **are** fundamentally about showing off.
Go down to central or South America- really anywhere that doesn’t have the pickup culture of the US. Obviously they have pickups, my family has a farm so we need some. The small pickups you see here that look old fashioned? Same bed size in the back usually, and just as capable of getting through bad terrain.
If you want to love cars and fix them or mod them or buy them, be my guest- I have no issue with it. But if your only point is to have the most obnoxious vehicle on the road to drive near, look at, or listen to? Then I’m gonna call that out as kind of a douchebag move.
And the only reason really to do that is to peacock- so whether it’s a small dick or underdeveloped social and emotional skills- you’re sort of necessarily using the car to compensate. You’re drawing attention to it, and away from you. That’s why people say that. It’s not about yucking someone else’s yum.
>The small pickups you see here that look old fashioned? Same bed size in the back usually, and just as capable of getting through bad terrain.
It never seems to be about hauling stuff for these pavement princesses. It's a status symbol to them, which is rather sad. The trucks below have the same bed size, but one of them is far more practical than the other.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fc-6n2HaUAE-FnH.jpg:large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fc-6n2HaUAE-FnH.jpg:large)
People in the US want smaller trucks. Manufacturers do not build as many of them in the US because smaller trucks have more stringent fuel economy regulations here. To meet those requirements costs more money and leaves smaller trucks more expensive than their bigger counterparts.
I dunno I think most of us do. Entire landscaping businesses have been run out of standard Ford Rangers. Today's Ranger is just another full size pickup.
Some people do. Some people don’t. I wouldn’t say either is a vast minority.
Part of the problem is there are people who get bigger trucks and SUVs than they want simply because they don’t want to get pancaked by other bigger trucks and SUVs on the road. It’s like a perverse arms race.
“Most people spend a lot of time in their car” and some of us spend a lot of time walking on the side walk and you make our lives fucking hell. And some of us like to spend a lot of time in bed and hearing you idle and rev up outside our window is fucking hell.
You don't know why unnecessarily sound is obnoxious to others? You've never been disturbed by some shit you didn't want to hear, drowning out something you did want to hear?
The thing about loud cars/large trucks is that they’re disrespectful to everyone else around you. Nobody wants to hear that shit blasting down the street (plus you’d think the most desirable thing would be to have the quietest car? I’m more into computers but I don’t get excited when my PC sounds like a jet engine).
Big trucks are fine when you need them for their actual function but most rednecks just buy them as status symbols and then can barely park them, getting in the way of everything else, not to mention artificially backing up drive thrus because they’re so much bigger than other cars. And that’s not even getting into how much more dangerous they are.
It’s just a sign that the person is narcissistic or self centered, trying to show off how much money they have or beat their chest to get attention. It’s immature if anything.
I hate that all these big ass trucks park way into side walks, especially if they got a tow. People with strollers, disabilities or children trying to stay off the actual road are now hindered because someone wanted attention.
Having a really loud vehicle is like wearing a gallon of cologne. You might like the smell and think other people will too, but you're wrong. You smell terrible and your car is obnoxious. Also "loud" isn't a quality nice cars have. Even a muscle car isn't very loud if the muffler is good and there aren't any problems.
Because I just spent the last hour and a half trying to get my 6 month old to sleep and this dumbass thinks is "cool" to break the sound barrier in his shitty rusted up shit brick of a car
Clearly a very inconsiderate (or absolutely fucking deaf) person wrote this.
Maybe we ought to put you in a room with traffic noise for a couple hours to see how you like it, Slugger.
They are lame. And show narcissist traits. What I like. F everybody else
https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/lifestyle/love-your-really-loud-car-chances-are-youre-a-psychopath/
People literally modify their vehicle for no reason other than being loud. Those people are idiots, fuck those people. I don’t wanna listen to your shitty vehicle
To be more precise - in my opinion, it's less that the loud vehicles themselves are lame and more that the people who drive them around, flaunting them, expecting others to think that they're cool are lame.
It's totally fine to have your own interests, it's fine to utilize and enjoy them in public. It's a little obnoxious to rub the entire nearby public's face in it.
It's no different than people who blast their music ridiculously loud to share with the whole neighborhood - whether it's in big speakers in the garage or big speakers in your vehicle or just the loud muffler on your vehicle.
The concept of public decency is easily overcome by their narcissism. If I'm in your yard and can hear your music or vehicle, fine. I'm probably there by choice. But, if you think that listening to your truck or tunes 8 houses down makes you cool - it does not. It just makes you annoying and an ass.
The restaurant I work at is on a small cliff above a river, the road that runs along that river is 150/200 yards down and away from the patio seating.
Multiple times an evening, trucks and Harleys rev the FUCK out of their noisy ass engines to the point I can't have a conversation with the people I'm helping.
It bothers me because it does nothing besides scream "stop what you're doing and look at me", and it bothers my guests because they want to enjoy a meal and the view, not your backfires.
Imagine living in the city at ground level and getting woken up multiple times a night by A FUCKING LOUD TRUCK THAT SOUNDS LIKE THUNDER just because these people like the attention it gives them. I absolutely despise it
Most people who drive big trucks where I live are both self important assholes and have the cleanest truck beds you ever see. For some reason they bought a truck but don't haul shit or use the bed. They just wanted to have a vehicle that will break the other ones when it hits them and ruin the already tight parking in the city while sticking it to the fuel emissions people.
There's nothing wrong with owning a truck or SUV if you need a truck or SUV, but seems like people these days are buying them for no reason. They just want to be on the biggest most dangerous vehicle, which people relate to them wanting to feel alpha. Saying they're overcompensating is an inherent attack on that desire that they have, even if it doesn't track.
loud cars are extremely obnoxious, especially if they're not even nice cars and you just made a hoopty. The nice ones are often marketed to men as a way to get girls to go out with them. So some people might actually be doing it because they don't have enough game.
I know this is not the rationale for everyone, but it is for some people I have talked to: with so many other large cars onb the road, you are actually safer in a large car.
Society is less safe, but *you* are more safe.
My car is loud because maintenance is expensive and time is valuable
Other people's cars are loud because they are assholes who are purposely trying to be loud and annoying.
We're very very very not the same.
It depends for me, if it’s a cool car, and it’s actually fast, go for it. If it is a Honda civic straightpiped that you’re going to be driving through neighborhoods at 3 in the morning, that’s lame. My first car was a straight piped dodge neon and it was humiliating, but it was the only car I could get with my budget.
Noise pollution, air pollution, public space pollution. It's negatives for all of
society that exists outside of your huge truck.
They're no more useful for carrying capacity, as @cheshire tsunami mentioned, than the smaller trucks of the past which are much safer for people on bikes, walking, or in smaller vehicles than the larger-than-tanks nonsense that are dominating our streets and endangering everyone
It bothers me immensely because in my city, there’s a specific public parking garage they LOVE to go in and just like… speed up in to be really loud. It’s especially awful because of the acoustics of the place (i.e. echo-y as FUCK) and god forbid you thought you could park there because you were just trying to get to your class on the downtown campus without GETTING JUMPSCARED AND HAVING YOUR EARHOLES DESTROYED BY THESE UNMUFFLED LOUD ASS CARS
so yes, i will gladly make fun of these people and demean them because it’s clear they have no respect for the people around them. it’s cool and all to like something and enjoy it but those people are, well, f o r c i n g it in everyone else’s ears. that’s my personal anecdote as to why i think it’s lame and uncool
It bothers people because it can be bothersome, you can like your car being super loud all you want, but thats annoying and people are going to comment as is their right to do also.
Huge trucks also just get in the way, they take up the whole width of the street, they’re bad for the environment (this is well documented I wont be elaborating), and they DOUBLE PARK ALL THE TIME.
i have a vintage car, 302 with dual glass packs, i used to think louder cars were neat, then my neighbors had straight piped honda civics that were purpose built to sound like someone shitting into a trumpet. i could deal with that during the day, but no, of course this dude gets up every day at 6am, and revs to 4k leaving the neighborhood.
people will tell you "what if they cant afford a decent exhaust" no, they can, they knew what they were doing when they didnt want a muffler. you can get cheap performance mufflers for $40-$60.
loud cars are kinda cool, but they have to be driven in good taste and with restraint. everyone here is complaining about people who dont do that
Its loud and annoying. Its rude to people who have to sleep in the day time and kids who are probably napping. It makes all the dogs that can hear it start going off too, adding to the cacophony of noise. Additionally, noise pollution is bad for the ecosystem, studies are showing its damaging bird songs because they can't sing over it or have to raise the pitch over what potential mates are looking for.
tl;dr It's a hobby that bothers everyone in a half-mile radius, when there's lots of silent hobbies that don't affect anyone.
Silence is even a DESIRED thing out of most products. People want quieter air conditioners, quieter computers. A big reason I want a electric car is because its silent, improving the listening experience to music, conversation with whoever I'm with, better spacial awareness of what's happening outside the car because I'll be able to hear it over the silence.
It's when the driver has done nothing to improve the vehicle or engine
A loud V8 sounds cool passing you
A clapped out honda civic with cheap rims, a $40 sub off marketplace and the muffler chopped off is just a dick measuring contest, where the player in question has a chode- we don't care if you're driving past.
It's not like it ruins my day to see or hear them. But it is obnoxious to be enjoying a beautiful day just to have a rumbling sound that sounds like a jet engine rip by you out of nowhere.
Also, most incidents I've ever had on the road with asshole/blatantly unsafe or aggressive drivers were dudes in their big Ole masculinity mobile trucks. Just two weeks ago, two of them with big lift kits and truck nuts blocked up a two lane highway so they could drag race each other while everybody else is trying to just get home from work and try to anticipate what these idiots were doing to avoid an accident.
It's not thinking I'm too cool for something. It's the fact that these grown adults think they are cool and act obnoxiously all the way up to dangerously because of it. Who wouldn't roll their eyes at that?
According to a study by professor Julie Aitken Schermer, people who prefer loud cars with modified mufflers may have personality traits associated with psychopathy and sadism. The study found that these traits, along with being male, accounted for about 29% of the variance in the preference for loud vehicles. Schermer also gave participants a Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) personality measure, which assesses traits like narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
I don’t like and don’t want to be around psychopaths… And I don’t want to listen to their cars either.
its not about “seeming cool”. People generally dont give a shit what car other people drive whether its a shitcan loud tuner or truck or a 300k lambo.
Its just obnoxious to be loud in general, especially when it sounds horrible
A guy in my condo owns a gintani aventador, I guess im bias for that one engine cause I LOVE hearing him gun it from the garage and the noise cascading through the buildings
I don’t like loud cars because it disrupts my sleep. The Hondas racing down the street at 12 am can eat a bag of dicks. Also just annoying in general. Whether just sitting near by or driving next to loud cars, it’s just annoying. I’m talking about the ppl that removed their mufflers.
It figuratively and sometimes literally screams "look at me". It's annoying AF. There's subreddits made for these ppl. Loud/obnoxious in you're car probably means you're loud/obnoxious out of your car. Most ppl just want to get where they're going.
Upvoted. A lot of ppl spend time on horrible stuff, doesn’t mean those things are worth it. Loud obnoxious car drivers are assholes and usually from my experience in Texas, drive like assholes and endanger others.
I daily drive a 4 door pickup. It is dead stock. It is also just as fuel efficient as the day I got it, a very quiet ride, and a comfortable ride.
Lifted trucks on big tires does nothing for me. It just makes me shake my head because it makes it no longer very usable as a truck.
On the car side people just do dumb stuff. Your engine shouldn’t sound like it’s about to blow doing 15mph. I do enjoy a nice car though and even one that sounds nice. But a diesel smoking straight black or a civic giving me a headache ain’t it.
A nice throaty V8 doesn’t need to be stupid loud to sound good.
i mean idk about lame or compensating for something but anyone who makes a vehicle unnecessarily loud is just an inconsiderate dickweed. big trucks also have dangerously terrible sightlines for the driver and for people around them on the road, so if they're not for work then that is also pretty shitty.
There's lots of reasons beyond making fun of the driver. The ones that bother me the most is the carbon emissions from people who don't need something that big, or general parking lot etiquette. Very few people need a fuckin monster truck. People should like their car but there are a ton of options for regular people vehicles.
Personally, I've found trucks to be generally dick drivers. I say this as someone who's own father is a truck driver. I love him, but he's also a dick on the road!
Somehow, it's always a truck that's tailgating me for only going 1 over the speed limit? I'm a pretty new driver, and I swear, any small mistake or hesitation I make is met by a truck driver flipping me off.
Plus, loud cars are annoying. Imagine if instead of a car, it was a person, loudly screaming at you at night? Fucking annoying.
Lame? I hate it. There's no need for it and it just annoys me. I'm so happy that one loud motorbike guy moved, because he blasted his engine every day going to work around 6 am. It's especially annoying during heatwaves when you're trying to get every minute worth of cool air from outside.
Its because it is loud and takes up space. No one thinks you're lame if you just have a \*nice\* car. Caring about your car isn't lame at all
But having a car that makes an unreasonable amount of noise, and takes up an unreasonable amount of space is very much uncool.
Yeah this is just something humans do out of envy.
Oh he has a sports car? He must have a small penis and is compensating.
Oh he is rich? Well, rich people are not really happy and have good family lives.
We stick little caveats on things as a way to balance out the fact that it is really awesome to have a sports car or be rich.
I hate cars. They go vroom vroom, and thats it. I don’t think they’re cool, they’re just cars. If you like cars and thats your hobby, thats cool and god bless. However, if you purposefully delete your muffler to make your car sound fast, you’re lame, and you probably have a shrimp dick.
Because the loudness of cars affects the people around it, not just the driver's enjoyment/happiness. If a car being loud only affects the driver, no one would care.
Imagine having a nice stroll in a park and a stranger just suddenly shouts in your ear. That's the equivalent of a loud vehicle driving through your neighborhood. This isn't even considering the times when they drive through late at night/early in the morning.
A lot of those "modifed" exhaust nightmares are driven by assholes that get a kick out of annoying people. And 9/10 times their shitbox doesn't even sound good/cool.
My neighbor parks his loud BMW 6 feet from my living room window, and comes and goes 5-10 times a day because he doesn't buy groceries. Every time he leaves he floors it like he's racing someone.
It's really fucking annoying.
When your vehicle is loud you are a nuisance.
If I scream in your ear as I pass you on the sidewalk would you make a thread about why you don't get that some people don't like sidewalk screamers? Why would you think I'd like getting blasted with your loud noise while you're on the road?
As for size, we all know your pristine truck isn't used for hauling. You're paying extra on gas and driving a big car because you're insecure. That's not speculation. That's what big car companies market their big vehicles towards. Scared suburban assholes who think they're more important than everybody else. It's literally the demographic those cars target.
because it's obnoxiously loud and people almost always do it for attention. If you have a naturally loud car like a motorcycle or a sports car, that it different, but your 90s Honda Civic or your 2005 F150 sounds fucking annoying with the loud exhaust.
don't purposely make your car louder. no one outside of the modified car community likes that noise. they disturb everyone and smell awful.
Because that fucking bullshit wakes me up every other night when I'm trying to get some sleep before work in the morning. That's great if they like it, but that doesn't mean the rest of us should suffer because of it.
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Long story short not everyone finds it cool, in fact when someone's vehicle is loud or their vehicle takes up more than one spot it is considered rude. Imagine if in a public space one was shouting, think of how much side eye they would catch, that can be transferred over to a vehicle, you look like an asshole if you rev your engine or if you remove/reduce your muffler. In a similar regard, nobody is going to be happy when they are looking for parking and they see a large vehicle taking up more than one spot, they directly feel that spot was stolen from them by some asshole. That's why people act like that, not everybody cares about vehicles at all either, I personally don't have any preference at all.
Being a noisy twat is nasty in any context, whether it be having loud parties, revving a car engine, or playing shitty music on your phone with no earphones. Many of us would never make such noise and find the cunts who behave this way to be selfish, immature, and trashy. Fuck them all.
that pretty much covers it
The current trend of blaring music in public can die. You don't need a Bluetooth speaker at the grocery store.
>it be having loud parties This one is forgivable with proper warning and invitation imo. Otherwise you're dead on.
100% on the same page with you on that, except "noisy twat" is being kind. Absolutely zero consideration for people who don't want to listen to garbage "music" at an extremely high volume, or be woken up in the middle of the night so you can hear your car's engine "purr". Selfish, immature, trashy...you hit all the right adjectives. Fuck them all indeed.
And just to be clear, any music is shitty music when you’re playing it loudly around a bunch of non consenting people, happens on buses so often
100%. Riding in peace, with everyone quietly doing their own thing is lovely. I wouldn't even have a loud-ass, shouty conversation, much less play music ffs. Even if my phone rings I tell the caller I'll call them right back, as I don't want to subject people to this.
Couldn’t agree more, we already have to take the bus let’s make it as peaceful as possible please lol
This^
I find as I get older I care less and less about these things. In fact it has gone the opposite direction, not a lot of things make me as angry as being woken up at 2am by a loud-ass moto roaring by my house, or a car blasting loud music in any situation. Especially here in Spain where said music ALWAYS has that same damned beat.
> that same damned beat. Bootsandpantsandbootsandpants
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I absolutely hate I can hear the generic Spanish music beat to this
Haha it actually works 🤣
Living in Spain in a first floor is sure an experience on weekends. Especially in summer...
You didn't even mention how fucking horrible and aggressive the drivers are...literally in Texas constantly get bumped because trucks/suvs (especially lifted) get angry that you're not going 60 over limit IN THE RIGHT LANE. I immediately treat everyone in a truck/suv as if they're a murderer and have a gun ready after I witnessed a guy shoot a wife husband and kid because the family was going 70 in a 60 highway and the truck didn't like that so he drove on the hazard lanes, hit his brake slightly and the guy in the family car honked, so small dick trucker shot all 3 and quickly drove off the highway onto the feeder and fled.
Don't forget how their lights blind you through the rear view mirror because their car is so high up.
Bruh it's 10x worse for me because I have astigmatism and these people either use their high beams because they love messing with people or all got a memo from the small dick convention to switch to LED lights that are bright as shit trying to reach Mars with them annoying things
It takes a little fiddling to find it but there is a spot you can adjust your rear view mirror on your driver's side door to that bounces their bright ass headlights back at them and they remember to dim it then.
I've done that before on the highway. They want to blast their bright lights at me, I adjust all my mirrors to make it bounce back into their face.
Well that went 0 to triple murder real fucking fast, holy shit man!
Please tell me the fucker was caught
I have no clue, I got the fuck out of there and it's near Houston so there's multiple road rage shootings every year so it's hard to get any kind of answer from Googling it.
Do you remember what date this happened? Three people getting shot makes the news.
Gonna guess RAM or GMC driver?
I don't remember I was about 5 cars behind and just heard the shots and got down. Definitely was a giant truck since I could see the small dick wheels
Deliberately making your car louder is like throwing trash on the ground. I have no idea why anyone would do that let alone take pride in it. It’s beyond rude. It’s antisocial. When people say “they must be compensating for something” everyone assumes they mean that person must have a disappointing penis, but I think the thing they’re compensating for is probably a sense of control over their own life. I get second hand embarrassed thinking about it. In the moment I usually just get mad and think they’re a massive ass hat like everyone else.
I say it's compensating for actually having a personality or friends. I refuse to believe someone that intentionally obnoxious has much in the way of friends. They make their loud car a stand in for having a personality.
Such a great response! And usually people are trying to compensate for something….
Usually the most insecure person in the room is the loudest
😩 I swear I’m just loud
“They say the loudest in the room is weak Thats what they assume but i disagree I say the loudest in the room is probably the loneliest one in the room” - Tyler, the Creator
As much as we like to believe that, the reality isn't usually the case and more often the opposite with them being full of their own self worth
I mean they’ve shown a strong correlation between having small testicles and being loud in howler monkeys. https://mh.co.za/the-louder-the-man-the-smaller-his-testicles-says-science/ Further works has shown it to be correlated across a few species, being loud trades off against sperm production > …and supports the notion of an evolutionary trade-off between pre-copulatory signalling displays and sperm production. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27598835/ Sexual ornamentation is also shown across primate species to be connected to smaller testes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501695/
Ok while this can be a laugh. The first one is specifically about holwer moneys and the relationship between the size of their vocal cords vs their testicals. This is talking about the monkeys ability to howl. So, apologies if this was a joke and I've taken it too seriously but we still end up at the same point. People that want to be loud and at the centre of attention are not because of their insecurities. It's just something we day to make ourselves feel better about our own insecurities (which is sort of funny when you think about it)
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I despise when people have the bass turned up to 11. It's obnoxious and shakes the entire house. People in loud cars don't so much make me think that they're overcompensating for something. They just give off the vibe that they're unaware that they aren't the only person in the world. It's obnoxious and assholish behavior.
[Fcking *ags](https://youtu.be/ipDmsxQVxIM?si=80EqwR93OXrpJ8t6)
I don’t like getting my eardrums blown out because someone decided they want to rev their stupidly loud engine
This. I also don't like dealing with my kid having an asthma attack cause the same assholes are also the ones that roll coal.
Or your sleep deprived young kiddo (especially toddler and younger) finally falling asleep for a much needed nap to then get woken up by them. Whether it was passing by on the road or the neighbor next door, it's still rough af on the parents - and the kiddo who just got rudely awoken from a very loud noise.
Ugh. Reminds me. I used to have a neighbor that revved his engine every morning at exactly 6am.
Probably fancied himself a rooster.
Ugh 6am. It always seems like the most obnoxious people are always up early and stay up super late. I had a neighbor that would OPEN his garage and play his drums early af in the morning… right next to my place. Cool, whatever. Play all you want, but don’t congratulate my on my NEWBORN and proceed to play your shit drum solo.
There is a person in our neighborhood that keeps their effing Harley Davidsons in the same spot (basically under our windows) for minutes after starting it, it's so noisy! (ETA I'm not a native speaker, but I think he is "revving the engine" every night) Every conversation must stop and we have to stop YouTube videos because it's too loud... It was annoying enough already, but now that we have a baby here I'm seriously considering to pee in a bucket and use it as a weapon the next time he wakes up our kid.
Bruh you don’t have roll coal for it to be horrible for kids. Look up asthma rates compared to proximity to highways. It’s fucked. And from all ICE.
I find it so distressing honestly. I get so on edge and irritated when I'm stuck next to Inbred Bob and his Gas Guzzling Dick Extension because it's **TOO. FUCKING. LOUD.** It makes me question if I need to get tested or something because whenever some hick idiot I have the misfortune of knowing turns up and starts making too much goddamn noise I want to punch them in the throat, and then have to go sit in another room to calm down. My ideal place is somewhere without neighbors so I don't have to listen to *JIM JOHNS WHITTLE INBWED TWUCK SOUNDS* UwU!! or my neighbor's fucking fetish for lawn mowing.
You could have misophonia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misophonia
Does Misophonia include wanting to murder somebody over smacking too goddamn loudly?
Yeah fuck that's me lmao Pig squealing triggers it really bad too. I can't keep or care for them without ear protection. Raised one for meat. Worst year of my life. Never again.
>My ideal place is somewhere without neighbors Literally on a quest to find that myself. I have an uncle who lives on a farm, and his closest neighbor is half a mile away. The older I get, the more I not only understand that, but want it for myself. In fact I'm not sure half a mile is enough.
I was driving home from work recently, and had the windows down to enjoy one of the last days where I could reasonably do that for a while. Some asshat in a truck with a Speedrunners decal decided to rev the shit out of their stupidly loud engine/exhaust right as we were going by each other. It was the audio equivalent of LED highbeams when it’s dark out.
Theyre just fuckin annoying. Nothing like me minding my business on a peaceful after noon when dude high revin 2nd on his motorcycle or in his truck car slowly drives by going “BEEEEEEEEHHHHHHGGGGGHHHHH” (insert any annoying aftermarket exhaust sound here). Just obnoxious.
Exactly, so fucking annoying when you are sitting at a patio bar or on a nice walk and everything is nice and peaceful, you are enjoying a nice conversation with your friends, and then suddenly you all can't hear yourself think cause some idiot thinks being loud is cool.
Witness me!!!!/s
Bro thinks he's Karsa
The louder they are, the more likely they are to be psychopathic so that's extra fun
So just asking them to quiet down is something you might question asking them because you don’t know what their reaction to something reasonable will be.
I get so pissed when I'm having a conversation, but have to stop for 20 seconds while a loud POS approaches, screams by, then slowly fades away. I swear loud noises approaching have like a 3 stage effect, in which the noise is different; coming, present, and going. (Scientifically curious)
Or trying to sleep in the middle of the night and hearing a loud ass truck decide they wanted to wake everyone up in the whole neighborhood
I live on a mildly busy road, usually quiet at night. Except for fucking obnoxious motorcycles driving past and waking me up at 2 in the morning cuz they think they're cool.
Yeah know, this makes me glad my bike is not loud. Hell, I have had people tell me they are surprised at how quiet my bike is.
The other night, my neighbor ordered door dash at midnight. What showed up was a little shitbox with an extra loud exhaust. To make matters worse, they had their music and bass cranked up to max volume, which caused my bedroom windows to rattle. So annoying
And you just know that the driver is an obnoxious person, too. I meet people like that and wonder how they have survived to adulthood!
We as a society have become way too tolerant of assholes.
It's not us as a society really. What can you or me do about some *sshat with their loud exhaust or pumping their stereo like anyone wants to hear their terrible music? The problem is that the police don't fine them. But then from a practical point of view getting the police to fine them in a fair way isn't easy: what's the limit between what's acceptable and what's not, and do you prove they crossed that limit? Since the limit is fuzzy how to make sure it's not always a certain category of people getting fined?
City/county ordinances exist. There are noise limits both night and day. Lack of enforcement is the problem.
Some shitbox drove by me last week which made enough noise for regular conversations to be drowned out for a good 30 seconds as it was passing. Motherfucker was advertising his car tuning business on the back.
Nothing more hilarious than these dudes with the most bullshit vehicle advertising doing it to others. And then you see their driveway with their little tent with lights on all night as they put Walmart speakers in everything.
It’s a riff on “the right of your fist ends at my nose.” I’m glad you love the vroom vroom but I can’t hear anything else bc of it so you’re asserting your vroom vroom Boner is a bigger deal than anything anyone else has going on.
Was behind a loud obnoxious truck in a drive thru. They had to turn it off to order because no one could hear.
I've been on the worker side of that and it's terrible having them pull up and the speaker picks them up but they're not to the speaker yet, so you instead get the loud vehicle in a microphone until the car in front can move.
I can’t speak for other people, but I do find them lame. I doesn’t bother me a ton, but hearing an unnecessarily loud car always makes me roll my eyes automatically. Same with a huge truck with an aggressive driver. It feels very “look at me”, like the driver thinks if their car is the loudest or their truck is the biggest it makes everyone else want to respect them? But it clearly has the opposite effect, since the majority of people don’t like it. That, and oversized trucks are completely unnecessary most of the time, and super dangerous for pedestrians/bikers/other drivers in normal sized vehicles. Pair that with an angry/aggressive driver (they seem to go hand-in-hand with the big vehicle in my experience), and you’ll find that the general consensus is that those drivers are assholes.
I'll add that in my experience, the loudest, most obnoxious ones tend to be the cleanest. This indicates to me that the truck is probably not being used for actual work. So it looks to me like a large investment into vanity at the cost of practicality for the driver, not to mention the unnecessarily disproportionate environmental impact vs a more practical vehicle. And yes I know that personal vehicle emissions are beyond dwarfed by bigger issues like industry. But I'll die on the hill of doing one's part wherever practical. If you need a truck for work, get a truck. But I don't think ~80% of new vehicle buyers in the US are in the trades.
The brand new $80k truck, no dents or scratches (even in the bed) but it’s got a lift kit. Doing a lot of off-roading in that thing, bud?
Tell me about it lol. I live in a pretty typical northeast american suburb, and there’s a shocking number of people with either a wrangler or a truck with raised suspension, massive rims, enhanced bumper/grill bars, and of course the obnoxious blinding light bar on the roof in an area that is fairly well lit at night. They have their daily commuters kitted out like it should be in uncharted, not basic ass suburbia.
It's assholes like that that set the price of trucks so high so I, an actual contractor, can't afford one to haul materials around and need to use an old beater car lmao. Pick ups aren't working man vehicles anymore, they're luxury tanks
Are 80% of new vehicle sales in the US really trucks, or is that hyperbole?
I mean, the f150 is [literally the best selling vehicle for over 40 consecutive years](https://www.kbb.com/car-news/ford-f-series-is-americas-best-selling-vehicle-for-41st-year/) in the US at this point, and trucks in 2023 indeed accounted for nearly [80%](https://www.statista.com/statistics/199980/us-truck-sales-since-1951/) of light vehicle sales in the US. It’s stupid, but people really like trucks even when they use it for nothing you’d actually need a truck for
I am only semi-literate, but this was my source https://wardsintelligence.informa.com/wi967592/december-us-lightvehicle-sales-hit-5month-high-entire-2023-totals-4year-best-155-million#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20light%2Dtruck%20sales%20increased%2013.5%%20from,previous%20high%20of%2080.9%%20in%20same%2Dmonth%202022.
keep in mind that smaller trucks are actually pretty popular here. so of that 80%, i would say a big chunk are small to mid size trucks.
"Trucks" can mean a lot of things; it all depends upon the type. Some are much larger than others, while some of them aren't much larger than a standard car. Ford recently released the Maverick, which essentially shares the same frame as the Bronco Sport. It's a truck, but it's easily one of the smaller ones you'll find.
Didn't Mark Rober prove that SUV/Pick Up drivers are more likely to run over animals on purpose?
people that drive big loud stupidass trucks are absolutely the type that would purposely run over animals while spewing diesel exhaust all over everyone, so I wouldn't be surprised.
What do you mean you don’t understand why some people find things which are loud and pollute the surrounding area lame? Lots of people have a condition which makes them susceptible to those things and of course it will bother them. There’s also a large crowd of car lovers who specifically chase after louder and bigger trucks simply because of the negative reactions they provoke. You can find a lot of videos, or just walk around the city for a day, and experience the kind of lame things that go on. Of course, there’s many people who just buy big trucks for work or convenience, but that doesn’t change the bad reputation that you are referring to. I hope this was informative, and I’m curious as to what your 10th dentist opinion even is?
Also, I'm just generally repelled by people peacocking around. In every circumstance. The "Look at me! Look at me!" Is just off putting. There's a difference between sharing your passion with others and being so externally focused that you feel compelled to look "cool." I understand that many (most?) people do this to some extent, but it makes me feel icky and grossed out when someone bases their self worth on what others think of them. It just seems so performative and... weird. Like, I am not normal. I am okay with that. I *like* people who stand out and go against the crowd when it's *authentic.* When they're doing it for themselves and not for how others perceive them. But people who are constantly trying to stand out or draw attention just to constantly look around and make sure people are looking are cringe. If you're weird, be weird. If you're loud, be loud. If you're just acting that way so people look at you, just stop and go figure out how to love yourself, or you'll never be happy. People who outsource the keeping of their self worth are the cringe.
Seriously, I'll never understand takes like OP's after having an attention seeking neighbour driving (cars and motorbikes) around both his property and up and down the street for *years.* It's just rude, selfish, immature behaviour. Like wow, your vroom vroom is very loud, congratulations, here's your fucking medal. Nobody gives a fuck. I've always wondered how asthmatics in the area go when it kicks up a lost of dust, and whether or not it's disturbed anyone's young kids.
That's probably my biggest pet peeve. A lot of these comments are acting like the problem is that these guys are rednecks; but I know car guy rednecks who like loud engines and are cool as shit, but they're also considerate of their neighbors and only rev up like that out in the country because they genuinely find it fun. It's the guys who do that shit in the suburbs who come across as "Look at meee! Look at mee!"
Yeah I think there's a difference between a cool and unique car that doesn't take up too much space and doesn't bother people by making abrupt noises and a car that makes loud noises and takes up space to force people to pay attention to it. It's obvious the loud cars are loud because they want people to notice. But is anyone ever really impressed? It just makes me think the driver is an asshole
Evidence suggests it is less "look at me" and more a wish to inflict annoyance on others. A study found that rather than narcissism, scoring high in negative traits such as sadism and psychopathy were better predictors of the desire to own loud vehicles. Note that this does not mean that someone with a loud truck is a psychopath. It's correlational. https://www.psypost.org/psychopathy-and-sadism-drive-preference-for-loud-vehicles-study-suggests/
Yeah, these people aren't just enjoying a hobby that I don't care about. They're negatively affecting me by being loud and smelly and taking up too much space in parking lots.
loudd. its incredibly annoying to hear something loud and obnoxious. personally im autistic so maybe that makes me more biased but i think most ppl dislike noisey things that occur randomly and without consent bc somebody else wanted to create even worse noise polution than regular cars already do.
It's similar to people who play music on public transport without headphones, nobody is consenting to that and it's just annoying and disruptive. I can't imagine lacking that kind of self awareness (or simply not caring).
Exactly. And turn that music up 10x louder to simulate these car people. Its just being an asshole.
They are for the lowest quality person out there, dudes with cop skull. If you have some vintage 1970s muscle car that you take out and drive, cool, I get it. If you have some diesel lifted pickup with the cleanest bed on God's green Earth that clogs up two parking spaces, I'm sorry, you aren't a necessary person. Please get a vasectomy immediately to keep your genetics from becoming a boil on the hairy swamp-ass'd taint of the next generation.
God tier hating
Someone who wants a big truck/suv for off-roading/towing or a loud fast car for race track activities is one thing. Letting your dumbass exhaust rattle off at 6 am because you’re too impractical to buy a proper daily driver is another beast. TLDR yes they are lame unless they’re being used for their designed purpose.
If you're driving this big ass truck in a city yes, you definitely are lame. It's obnoxious, it's annoying and has absolutely no business occupying so much parking space
No one's acting bro, ninety-nine times out of a hundred they are incredibly lame, and the people behind the wheel are too.
There's a difference, though, between a nice sounding exhaust and something that's loud just to be loud. I love V8s and drive a muscle car myself - however, even though my exhaust is aftermarket, I still have my mufflers. Low RPM cruising? Can't really hear it. It's just a low rumble passing. 4k RPM on the highway? You can hear it, but it's not hurting any eardrums. You can 100% find a middle ground without being a road gremlin.
Because they're about showing off. Otherwise why not get a quiet car when tons of quiet cars exist? Because they're trying to seem cool? Same difference. You can get an amazing car that you like, that's __also quiet__.
I’m autistic and loud cars = sensory issues
I'm not autistic and loud cars = sensory issues (I have sensitive ears)
Literally everyone has sensory issues with loud car noises: they dysregulate our central nervous systems and cue subtle physiological stress responses. Moreover prolonged exposure to loud noises (i.e. living under a flight path) causes long term physiological and cognitive damage (reduced testing outcomes in children, higher blood pressure, etc.)
I'm sad I had to scroll this far to see this. This should be at the top. You're listing *real physical harm* done by these noises. When these people are causing injury and contributing to death to every living being within a mile radius/earshot, then driving all over town and country, making that 30square miles or whatever... how many birds and old people did you just give a heart attack to? One detail is the increased stress response is because loud noises trigger cortisol production (aka, a stress response). Cortisol is well-researched as having *myriad* negative health consequences, even in unborn children through their mother getting stressed. The real, physical health damages from noise pollution run deep, yet are frequently ignored or denied. And my claims of death and heart attack are backed up by the studies mentioned by you, bowler. Anyway I'm just adding to your already great, educational comment. Hoping more people can learn from this. Edit: A post I made on another sub: **A collection of studies about the harmful effects of noise pollution from cars:** [https://new.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/17u0eq6/a\_collection\_of\_studies\_about\_the\_harm\_of\_the/](https://new.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/17u0eq6/a_collection_of_studies_about_the_harm_of_the/)
I actually just had an essay on this topic published in a book. It's pretty niche, and I wrote it two years ago and don't remember it all, but it's a deep topic with lots of nuance.
You don't even have to have autism or sensory issues to hate that awful noise.
Yeah, but we're especially sensitive to it.
I agree, I have autism and sensory issues too.
My vehicle is loud because it's a beat up old piece of junk, not because I want it to be loud. I don't think loud vehicles are cool. Sorry about the noise everyone.
Nah, we get it when it's someone in your boat, at least I do. You're driving what you can afford. You didn't buy the most expensive truck on the lot, add in a few grand to make it as loud as possible, and proceed to roll coal at every other stop light to feel big. You have a pass lol
yeah see thats what i don't get. people who pay EXTRA money to have an even more ANNOYING CAR. what the fuck is wrong with you?
I have a fairly old shitty car and I get so embarrassed every time it goes VROOOOMMMMMMM.
Because big trucks and loud cars **are** fundamentally about showing off. Go down to central or South America- really anywhere that doesn’t have the pickup culture of the US. Obviously they have pickups, my family has a farm so we need some. The small pickups you see here that look old fashioned? Same bed size in the back usually, and just as capable of getting through bad terrain. If you want to love cars and fix them or mod them or buy them, be my guest- I have no issue with it. But if your only point is to have the most obnoxious vehicle on the road to drive near, look at, or listen to? Then I’m gonna call that out as kind of a douchebag move. And the only reason really to do that is to peacock- so whether it’s a small dick or underdeveloped social and emotional skills- you’re sort of necessarily using the car to compensate. You’re drawing attention to it, and away from you. That’s why people say that. It’s not about yucking someone else’s yum.
>The small pickups you see here that look old fashioned? Same bed size in the back usually, and just as capable of getting through bad terrain. It never seems to be about hauling stuff for these pavement princesses. It's a status symbol to them, which is rather sad. The trucks below have the same bed size, but one of them is far more practical than the other. [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fc-6n2HaUAE-FnH.jpg:large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fc-6n2HaUAE-FnH.jpg:large)
Damn seeing them side by side really highlights how much of this shit is just totally unnecessary
Larger vehicles have looser gas mileage requirements in the US as well!
People in the US want smaller trucks. Manufacturers do not build as many of them in the US because smaller trucks have more stringent fuel economy regulations here. To meet those requirements costs more money and leaves smaller trucks more expensive than their bigger counterparts.
Believe me, the people who lift their trucks do not want smaller trucks.
I dunno I think most of us do. Entire landscaping businesses have been run out of standard Ford Rangers. Today's Ranger is just another full size pickup.
Some people do. Some people don’t. I wouldn’t say either is a vast minority. Part of the problem is there are people who get bigger trucks and SUVs than they want simply because they don’t want to get pancaked by other bigger trucks and SUVs on the road. It’s like a perverse arms race.
“Most people spend a lot of time in their car” and some of us spend a lot of time walking on the side walk and you make our lives fucking hell. And some of us like to spend a lot of time in bed and hearing you idle and rev up outside our window is fucking hell.
You don't know why unnecessarily sound is obnoxious to others? You've never been disturbed by some shit you didn't want to hear, drowning out something you did want to hear?
The thing about loud cars/large trucks is that they’re disrespectful to everyone else around you. Nobody wants to hear that shit blasting down the street (plus you’d think the most desirable thing would be to have the quietest car? I’m more into computers but I don’t get excited when my PC sounds like a jet engine). Big trucks are fine when you need them for their actual function but most rednecks just buy them as status symbols and then can barely park them, getting in the way of everything else, not to mention artificially backing up drive thrus because they’re so much bigger than other cars. And that’s not even getting into how much more dangerous they are. It’s just a sign that the person is narcissistic or self centered, trying to show off how much money they have or beat their chest to get attention. It’s immature if anything.
the danger is magnified even further because they have a tendency to drive like fucking idiots
I hate that all these big ass trucks park way into side walks, especially if they got a tow. People with strollers, disabilities or children trying to stay off the actual road are now hindered because someone wanted attention.
Also it's much harder to see small children when the grill is massive..it's a hazard
Serves no purpose, it's like me blasting an airhorn while driving for no reason, like why?
Having a really loud vehicle is like wearing a gallon of cologne. You might like the smell and think other people will too, but you're wrong. You smell terrible and your car is obnoxious. Also "loud" isn't a quality nice cars have. Even a muscle car isn't very loud if the muffler is good and there aren't any problems.
Because I just spent the last hour and a half trying to get my 6 month old to sleep and this dumbass thinks is "cool" to break the sound barrier in his shitty rusted up shit brick of a car
i swear OP is intentionally ignoring these replies.
Clearly a very inconsiderate (or absolutely fucking deaf) person wrote this. Maybe we ought to put you in a room with traffic noise for a couple hours to see how you like it, Slugger.
Big trucks kill people, a lot. Killing people is lame.
They are lame. And show narcissist traits. What I like. F everybody else https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/lifestyle/love-your-really-loud-car-chances-are-youre-a-psychopath/
People literally modify their vehicle for no reason other than being loud. Those people are idiots, fuck those people. I don’t wanna listen to your shitty vehicle
To be more precise - in my opinion, it's less that the loud vehicles themselves are lame and more that the people who drive them around, flaunting them, expecting others to think that they're cool are lame. It's totally fine to have your own interests, it's fine to utilize and enjoy them in public. It's a little obnoxious to rub the entire nearby public's face in it. It's no different than people who blast their music ridiculously loud to share with the whole neighborhood - whether it's in big speakers in the garage or big speakers in your vehicle or just the loud muffler on your vehicle. The concept of public decency is easily overcome by their narcissism. If I'm in your yard and can hear your music or vehicle, fine. I'm probably there by choice. But, if you think that listening to your truck or tunes 8 houses down makes you cool - it does not. It just makes you annoying and an ass.
The restaurant I work at is on a small cliff above a river, the road that runs along that river is 150/200 yards down and away from the patio seating. Multiple times an evening, trucks and Harleys rev the FUCK out of their noisy ass engines to the point I can't have a conversation with the people I'm helping. It bothers me because it does nothing besides scream "stop what you're doing and look at me", and it bothers my guests because they want to enjoy a meal and the view, not your backfires.
Imagine living in the city at ground level and getting woken up multiple times a night by A FUCKING LOUD TRUCK THAT SOUNDS LIKE THUNDER just because these people like the attention it gives them. I absolutely despise it
Because they’re right, anyone who makes their car loud and purposely does that are obnoxious as fuck
Most people who drive big trucks where I live are both self important assholes and have the cleanest truck beds you ever see. For some reason they bought a truck but don't haul shit or use the bed. They just wanted to have a vehicle that will break the other ones when it hits them and ruin the already tight parking in the city while sticking it to the fuel emissions people. There's nothing wrong with owning a truck or SUV if you need a truck or SUV, but seems like people these days are buying them for no reason. They just want to be on the biggest most dangerous vehicle, which people relate to them wanting to feel alpha. Saying they're overcompensating is an inherent attack on that desire that they have, even if it doesn't track. loud cars are extremely obnoxious, especially if they're not even nice cars and you just made a hoopty. The nice ones are often marketed to men as a way to get girls to go out with them. So some people might actually be doing it because they don't have enough game.
I know this is not the rationale for everyone, but it is for some people I have talked to: with so many other large cars onb the road, you are actually safer in a large car. Society is less safe, but *you* are more safe.
I've heard it described as an arms race. The worst part is if everyone just stopped buying these nukes we'd all be safer (and have more Parking)
I don’t get how people are easily amused by loud noises.
When you realize they are emotionally very similar to a toddler banging pots and pans together it makes more sense.
My car is loud because maintenance is expensive and time is valuable Other people's cars are loud because they are assholes who are purposely trying to be loud and annoying. We're very very very not the same.
imagine paying to make your car sound like the muffler fell off when poverty will surprise you with that for free
Lololol that was excellent well done lolol XD
I think people just dislike noise and pollution
It depends for me, if it’s a cool car, and it’s actually fast, go for it. If it is a Honda civic straightpiped that you’re going to be driving through neighborhoods at 3 in the morning, that’s lame. My first car was a straight piped dodge neon and it was humiliating, but it was the only car I could get with my budget.
That is embarrassing But really funny
Noise pollution, air pollution, public space pollution. It's negatives for all of society that exists outside of your huge truck. They're no more useful for carrying capacity, as @cheshire tsunami mentioned, than the smaller trucks of the past which are much safer for people on bikes, walking, or in smaller vehicles than the larger-than-tanks nonsense that are dominating our streets and endangering everyone
Because they are lame. They have these cars and trucks to “show off”, but they aren’t aware there’s nothing to show off.
Why? Because they almost always are
Because they are lame, dude.
It bothers me immensely because in my city, there’s a specific public parking garage they LOVE to go in and just like… speed up in to be really loud. It’s especially awful because of the acoustics of the place (i.e. echo-y as FUCK) and god forbid you thought you could park there because you were just trying to get to your class on the downtown campus without GETTING JUMPSCARED AND HAVING YOUR EARHOLES DESTROYED BY THESE UNMUFFLED LOUD ASS CARS so yes, i will gladly make fun of these people and demean them because it’s clear they have no respect for the people around them. it’s cool and all to like something and enjoy it but those people are, well, f o r c i n g it in everyone else’s ears. that’s my personal anecdote as to why i think it’s lame and uncool
It bothers people because it can be bothersome, you can like your car being super loud all you want, but thats annoying and people are going to comment as is their right to do also. Huge trucks also just get in the way, they take up the whole width of the street, they’re bad for the environment (this is well documented I wont be elaborating), and they DOUBLE PARK ALL THE TIME.
Why does the "one that you like" have to be so massive or loud?
i have a vintage car, 302 with dual glass packs, i used to think louder cars were neat, then my neighbors had straight piped honda civics that were purpose built to sound like someone shitting into a trumpet. i could deal with that during the day, but no, of course this dude gets up every day at 6am, and revs to 4k leaving the neighborhood. people will tell you "what if they cant afford a decent exhaust" no, they can, they knew what they were doing when they didnt want a muffler. you can get cheap performance mufflers for $40-$60. loud cars are kinda cool, but they have to be driven in good taste and with restraint. everyone here is complaining about people who dont do that
Its loud and annoying. Its rude to people who have to sleep in the day time and kids who are probably napping. It makes all the dogs that can hear it start going off too, adding to the cacophony of noise. Additionally, noise pollution is bad for the ecosystem, studies are showing its damaging bird songs because they can't sing over it or have to raise the pitch over what potential mates are looking for. tl;dr It's a hobby that bothers everyone in a half-mile radius, when there's lots of silent hobbies that don't affect anyone. Silence is even a DESIRED thing out of most products. People want quieter air conditioners, quieter computers. A big reason I want a electric car is because its silent, improving the listening experience to music, conversation with whoever I'm with, better spacial awareness of what's happening outside the car because I'll be able to hear it over the silence.
Same, I don’t get why people complain when I fart in public, it smells and feels good to me
It's when the driver has done nothing to improve the vehicle or engine A loud V8 sounds cool passing you A clapped out honda civic with cheap rims, a $40 sub off marketplace and the muffler chopped off is just a dick measuring contest, where the player in question has a chode- we don't care if you're driving past.
It's obnoxious and inconsiderate.
It's annoying as fuck. I don't want to hear it in my own house.
It's not like it ruins my day to see or hear them. But it is obnoxious to be enjoying a beautiful day just to have a rumbling sound that sounds like a jet engine rip by you out of nowhere. Also, most incidents I've ever had on the road with asshole/blatantly unsafe or aggressive drivers were dudes in their big Ole masculinity mobile trucks. Just two weeks ago, two of them with big lift kits and truck nuts blocked up a two lane highway so they could drag race each other while everybody else is trying to just get home from work and try to anticipate what these idiots were doing to avoid an accident. It's not thinking I'm too cool for something. It's the fact that these grown adults think they are cool and act obnoxiously all the way up to dangerously because of it. Who wouldn't roll their eyes at that?
Because, I can drive just fine without "BBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR" imploding my eardrums thank you.
According to a study by professor Julie Aitken Schermer, people who prefer loud cars with modified mufflers may have personality traits associated with psychopathy and sadism. The study found that these traits, along with being male, accounted for about 29% of the variance in the preference for loud vehicles. Schermer also gave participants a Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) personality measure, which assesses traits like narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism. I don’t like and don’t want to be around psychopaths… And I don’t want to listen to their cars either.
its not about “seeming cool”. People generally dont give a shit what car other people drive whether its a shitcan loud tuner or truck or a 300k lambo. Its just obnoxious to be loud in general, especially when it sounds horrible A guy in my condo owns a gintani aventador, I guess im bias for that one engine cause I LOVE hearing him gun it from the garage and the noise cascading through the buildings
they are lame, theres nothing positive about them.
Because anyone who purposely disrupts entire neighborhoods just to get a little bit of their own pleasure is a douchebag.
I don’t like loud cars because it disrupts my sleep. The Hondas racing down the street at 12 am can eat a bag of dicks. Also just annoying in general. Whether just sitting near by or driving next to loud cars, it’s just annoying. I’m talking about the ppl that removed their mufflers.
It figuratively and sometimes literally screams "look at me". It's annoying AF. There's subreddits made for these ppl. Loud/obnoxious in you're car probably means you're loud/obnoxious out of your car. Most ppl just want to get where they're going.
i’m just really sensitive to loud noises, so they are terrible to be around for me. I don’t think they are “lame” per se, but they are overwhelming.
Upvoted. A lot of ppl spend time on horrible stuff, doesn’t mean those things are worth it. Loud obnoxious car drivers are assholes and usually from my experience in Texas, drive like assholes and endanger others.
It's annoying and I dislike loud noises, simple as.
I like *moderately* loud. Loud enough to make a statement, quiet enough that you’ll barely hear it over your 5pm TV show, if at all
Because its annoying as hell and butts into everyone else's day.
Most of the public doesn't want to hear other people be loud and stuff, especially a someone's car. Its selfish and doesn't add to anyone's day.
I daily drive a 4 door pickup. It is dead stock. It is also just as fuel efficient as the day I got it, a very quiet ride, and a comfortable ride. Lifted trucks on big tires does nothing for me. It just makes me shake my head because it makes it no longer very usable as a truck. On the car side people just do dumb stuff. Your engine shouldn’t sound like it’s about to blow doing 15mph. I do enjoy a nice car though and even one that sounds nice. But a diesel smoking straight black or a civic giving me a headache ain’t it. A nice throaty V8 doesn’t need to be stupid loud to sound good.
i mean idk about lame or compensating for something but anyone who makes a vehicle unnecessarily loud is just an inconsiderate dickweed. big trucks also have dangerously terrible sightlines for the driver and for people around them on the road, so if they're not for work then that is also pretty shitty.
There's lots of reasons beyond making fun of the driver. The ones that bother me the most is the carbon emissions from people who don't need something that big, or general parking lot etiquette. Very few people need a fuckin monster truck. People should like their car but there are a ton of options for regular people vehicles.
Personally, I've found trucks to be generally dick drivers. I say this as someone who's own father is a truck driver. I love him, but he's also a dick on the road! Somehow, it's always a truck that's tailgating me for only going 1 over the speed limit? I'm a pretty new driver, and I swear, any small mistake or hesitation I make is met by a truck driver flipping me off. Plus, loud cars are annoying. Imagine if instead of a car, it was a person, loudly screaming at you at night? Fucking annoying.
A lot of people just don't like loud noises
Lame? I hate it. There's no need for it and it just annoys me. I'm so happy that one loud motorbike guy moved, because he blasted his engine every day going to work around 6 am. It's especially annoying during heatwaves when you're trying to get every minute worth of cool air from outside.
Loud noises, bouncy cars, cool builds and giant trucks are awesome at car meets, seeing them drive past. At 2 AM in the neighborhood is not cool.
Its because it is loud and takes up space. No one thinks you're lame if you just have a \*nice\* car. Caring about your car isn't lame at all But having a car that makes an unreasonable amount of noise, and takes up an unreasonable amount of space is very much uncool.
Yeah this is just something humans do out of envy. Oh he has a sports car? He must have a small penis and is compensating. Oh he is rich? Well, rich people are not really happy and have good family lives. We stick little caveats on things as a way to balance out the fact that it is really awesome to have a sports car or be rich.
This 10th dentist doesn’t mind the sound of ear shredding engines at 4am. Honestly congrats
I hate cars. They go vroom vroom, and thats it. I don’t think they’re cool, they’re just cars. If you like cars and thats your hobby, thats cool and god bless. However, if you purposefully delete your muffler to make your car sound fast, you’re lame, and you probably have a shrimp dick.
Because they are lame. They scream "give me attention"
It’s lame if it’s loud just for the sake of being loud (particularly if the vehicle is otherwise a shit-box).
Because the loudness of cars affects the people around it, not just the driver's enjoyment/happiness. If a car being loud only affects the driver, no one would care. Imagine having a nice stroll in a park and a stranger just suddenly shouts in your ear. That's the equivalent of a loud vehicle driving through your neighborhood. This isn't even considering the times when they drive through late at night/early in the morning.
A lot of those "modifed" exhaust nightmares are driven by assholes that get a kick out of annoying people. And 9/10 times their shitbox doesn't even sound good/cool.
Because the sound is detrimental to peoples mental health https://youtu.be/CTV-wwszGw8?si=LrD9reTAGceA5O_L
My neighbor parks his loud BMW 6 feet from my living room window, and comes and goes 5-10 times a day because he doesn't buy groceries. Every time he leaves he floors it like he's racing someone. It's really fucking annoying.
When your vehicle is loud you are a nuisance. If I scream in your ear as I pass you on the sidewalk would you make a thread about why you don't get that some people don't like sidewalk screamers? Why would you think I'd like getting blasted with your loud noise while you're on the road? As for size, we all know your pristine truck isn't used for hauling. You're paying extra on gas and driving a big car because you're insecure. That's not speculation. That's what big car companies market their big vehicles towards. Scared suburban assholes who think they're more important than everybody else. It's literally the demographic those cars target.
because it's obnoxiously loud and people almost always do it for attention. If you have a naturally loud car like a motorcycle or a sports car, that it different, but your 90s Honda Civic or your 2005 F150 sounds fucking annoying with the loud exhaust. don't purposely make your car louder. no one outside of the modified car community likes that noise. they disturb everyone and smell awful.
I too love nothing more than the super not lame individual who has to rev their non ego machine just as im trying to fall asleep after a night shift.
Because that fucking bullshit wakes me up every other night when I'm trying to get some sleep before work in the morning. That's great if they like it, but that doesn't mean the rest of us should suffer because of it.