{"id":5850,"date":"2015-06-09T07:34:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:06:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:06:41","slug":"stereotypes-the-boy-racer-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/driving\/stereotypes-the-boy-racer-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes: The Boy Racer Car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"boy-racer\"<\/a>Usually Seen:<\/strong> Late on Friday and Saturday nights, either on long straight stretches near urban areas but not quite in them or near traffic lights. They tend to vanish when cops are spotted on the horizon, leaving unpleasant oil slicks and tyre tracks.<\/p>\n

Typical Examples:<\/strong> Mazda <\/a>RX-something, Toyota <\/a>Levin, Nissan <\/a>Skyline, Subaru WRX <\/a>.<\/p>\n

Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The boy racer car may be based on a small, cheap Japanese (or other Asian) vehicle but it certainly doesn\u2019t look like one\u2026 until you look more closely. What makes a boy racer car a boy racer car is all the after-market additions.\u00a0 The boy racer car very blatantly tries to prove the manhood of the driver.\u00a0 Subtle, it is not.\u00a0 A large spoiler is an absolute must \u2013 the bigger, the better.\u00a0 Two spoilers are even better.\u00a0 The second must-have for the well-dressed boy racer car is the big-bore exhaust.\u00a0 Take a look at the size of both, the shape of the exhaust and the angle of that spoiler, and you\u2019ll start to believe everything that Freud ever wrote about phallic symbols and probably compensation into the bargain.<\/p>\n

Other key characteristics of the boy racer car are less phallic but are still very exhibitionistic. \u00a0No boy racer car would be complete without the sound system.\u00a0 These should make the car vibrate when the doors closed.\u00a0 If the doors and\/or windows are open (or, depending on the car, the top is down), you should be able to hear the vehicle from at least two streets away.\u00a0 Don\u2019t bother trying to identify what is playing: all you will hear is the very, very distorted bass.\u00a0 In the case of dubstep, that\u2019s all there is to hear, anyway. Everything else is indistinguishable from the sound of the exhaust but, unfortunately, doesn\u2019t drown out what the passengers and\/or driver are shouting out the windows.<\/p>\n

Mag wheels are another must.\u00a0 But not just plain aluminium alloys!\u00a0 These ought to be colourful as well as shiny.\u00a0 Blue, orange, red and yellow are all possibilities.\u00a0 If you look very closely at some mag wheels, you may find that they are actually clip-on jobs from the local car supplies shop.\u00a0 But they have to be shiny. Shiny is the name of the game.<\/p>\n

The boy racer car is low slung \u2013 they ride as low as the pants of the drivers did a few years back, but at least the car doesn\u2019t give a glimpse of lurid boxer shorts.\u00a0 This can be done by fiddling with the suspension and shocks, or with a lot of body kit.\u00a0 Preferably both.\u00a0 It should just skim the ground, leaving the barest little gap to allow tiny pebbles on the road to pass underneath.\u00a0 If the car encounters something larger than a pebble, then all that fibreglass is in serious trouble.<\/p>\n

Decals and paint jobs are often seen on boy racer cars, although sometimes you wish that you hadn\u2019t seen them, as they are usually excruciatingly lurid.\u00a0 The go-faster racing stripes are the more tasteful versions. At the other end of the spectrum, you get the iridescent paint jobs and the swirly, streaky things that look like tattoos along the sides.\u00a0 The paint jobs usually look like they\u2019ve taken peacocks or hummingbirds as inspiration after a decent dose of something illegal.\u00a0 But they don\u2019t come in pink.\u00a0 If they come in pink, it\u2019s probably a girl racer.\u00a0 This colour is enhanced at night-time by LED lights around the wheels, preferably in blue.<\/p>\n

It is hard to see into the interior of a boy racer car to find out what it is like inside.\u00a0 This is because the windows have been seriously tinted.\u00a0 If the windows are down, the driver and his passengers are probably half hanging out of them, blocking any view of what\u2019s inside.\u00a0 We suspect bucket seats if the owner\u2019s budget stretches that far and possibly a prosthetic cover for the steering wheel to make it look sportier.\u00a0 We also suspect old cans of Red Bull, V or Monster will be found sprinkled in around the interior, plus greasy fast food wrappers.\u00a0 More than this is unknown \u2013 even as a teenage girl, I had more sense than to get anywhere near one of these cars.<\/p>\n

The irony with a boy racer car is that once you get past the exterior and look at actual specs, all the bravado and body kit can be seen for what it is.\u00a0 Underneath all those modifications, even with a bonnet blower (another phallic symbol?), it\u2019s still a cheap little hatch or sedan with a teeny engine, but one that\u2019s lost all its self-respect.\u00a0 A decent European sedan \u2013 or even another car of the same marque with a better engine that\u2019s actually been properly serviced by a responsible owner who doesn\u2019t thrash it to death \u2013 will leave it for dead at the traffic lights.\u00a0 Ditto if the road is the slightest bit worn or uneven.<\/p>\n

And girls aren\u2019t irresistibly attracted to them.\u00a0 Loud noises, bright colours and big tails may work for peacocks and birds of paradise but not for human beings with half a brain cell.<\/p>\n

Safe and happy driving,<\/p>\n

Megan http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/about.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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