Saw the title, didn’t even need to see the argument. Of course you can be an enthusiast. If the only car you own is a Prius, you can be an enthusiast. Being an enthusiast isn’t about the car you own, it’s about the cars you want to drive.

Not to mention the V6 Camry is faster than a lot of “performance” cars from not that long ago.

I am nominating January 2nd as the worst day to have a birthday all year. Everyone is hungover on your birthday and doesn’t want to go out as an adult and as a child it was close enough where you still got the whole, “We’ll just get you one big gift” from family members.

She legit had no idea what to do, and Miss USA may or may not have been laughing.

#neverforget

Not to excuse him at all, but they really should have anticipated this as a possibility and had the winner’s name printed front and center in large type so that it was completely unambiguous.

I hate Steve Harvey. He’s never said anything funny. And he’s a dick. I can’t believe he has a show telling women what to do, and women watch it. WTF? This guy is vile. And apparently stupid.

My brother had a home-made PVC intake with conical/K&N-style filter on his 1991 Mustang GT. Made him lose 3/10 second in the 1/8” mile. Whoops!

See, but this kind of stuff is subtle and in good taste. It’s not like you put MAZDASPEED ZOOM ZOOM on every visible surface like some do. I think this looks nice, even if it’s not Mazdaspeed.

The worst mod I did was trading my brand new Accord for a 2007 M5 with 128,000 miles like Tavarish told me to! Now I’m bankrupt, divorced, ride a bike to work and live in a broken BMW down by the river!

Probably the boost (and some other one) pillar gauges I put on my ‘01 Corvette after I supercharged it. It looked neat and got the point across that you didn’t want to mess with me, but really served absolutely no purpose. I knew what the boost range was and that it was set up to maintain a safe max boost, so I didn’t…

Not really a mod, but... Neon lights.

something about being a MAN because the US is the last bastion of hegemonic masculinity in the first world

Off topic: What’s with Americans and their pride of changing their own oil?

You clearly haven’t been a guest in many peoples’ houses (people’s house? peoples houses? peoples’ house?... now the spelling of house looks weird). There is a thing called common courtesy.

I grew up in a no-shoes house and keep a no-shoes house, as well, because the amount of gross you track in from outside is astonishing, especially when you think about places where it snows. You can wipe your shoes off all you want, you’re still tracking nasty gray water everywhere.

You’ve moved the goalposts here. You claimed it was rude to take your shoes off even if the host has a no shoes house. Not that it was rude for the host to ask (demand, really?) you to take your shoes off.

I have lived half my life in Continental Europe and almost half in Rocky Mountain states. I have been in the houses of hillbillies and those of Ivy classmates.

My mom grew up in eastern europe and they would actually bring a change of “indoor shoes” with them to parties and such, especially in the winter. Most people have guest slippers in their homes too.

Congrats on your victory, good sir.