How much does the average girl know about cars?

[JBird]

You're gunna be that guy huh?

What do you mean "be that guy"? What's wrong with standing up for people, especially against sexist jokes? HarryPotter, maybe you are "that kind of guy" who doesn't stand up against this sort of thing because you are insecure and afraid that you might get laughed at or thought of as not a "real man" or something....

That is so insulting to women.

I happen to agree with bernzpeed. It is insulting how much women get judged via preconceived notion's. I am a female and happen to love cars and everything about them. One of my passions is cars and driving. My dream job is to become a race-car driver. I am also an avid indoor go-karter and regularly kick other guys asses in the karting league with Intel. I also work on my own car, and whatever I don't know how to do or haven't done before, I research and then do it. I also happen to be the one to point out cars all over the place while driving with my boyfriend. He normally can't tell the difference between 3 and 5 series BMW's, old or new, from afar.

For all of you guys who are saying that girls don't know shit about cars, maybe YOU are hanging around with the wrong types of girls. And most times, guys don't actually know as much about cars as they think they do, or as they say. About a quarter to half of our male friends, don't know anymore about cars than I do. 1 of our male friends drove a friends truck from Portland to Olympia in low gear and blew up the transmission. Another male friend of my dad's didn't know to teach his son to put oil in his car, so his son ran their 1998 Cherokee out of oil and seized the motor. Another male friend of ours bought a brand new Mazda RX-8 and doesn't know hardly anything about how to fix it himself.

[squidmaster]

sexist thread is not as sexist as I thought r3v would have made it.

bimmerforums would have been shaming women back to the dark-ages.

never the less, it's not that the people are GIRLS, it's that SOME PEOPLE (genderless) just aren't taught about, or kept from, or thought to be incapable of working on cars. That's not their fault, it's mostly the fault of their parents and society. Though I think it's becoming a bit more accepting and negligent of gender biases.

[LJ851]

I happen to agree with bernzpeed. It is insulting how much women get judged via preconceived notion's.

QFT.


The average girl knows exactly the same amount as the average guy does: As much as she or he wants to learn.

[JBird]

It's nice to see that there are indeed mature and intelligent people on R3V. Thank you

But I would also agree from what I've seen, that on average, females aren't as interested as males in cars. I wish there were more females who were as interested in cars as I am.

[tcvd]

My wife scouted out a 72 2002 without my knowing and then bought it for me for christmas. She knew it had recaros.

U got a keeper

[xxx-Lost-Soul-xxx]

Lets see I went threw BMW step,when i was at UTI.

When i spot something wrong with the car,ill discuss with my mother.

My dad asked me why does my car sound loud? After a IE exhaust was installed 4 months ago. :? My dad wanted to sell the 540I/6 and keep the lame e38. My mom told him keep the E34 or else!

[Thizzelle]

they know jack fucking shit unless you date them for awhile and teach them. Otherwise I'd say 1% of girls know.
They usually just tell me to not kill them when I drive and get scared when you drive normal speedlimit around a turn.
Freeride53 summed it up perfect.

[Roysneon]

Another male friend of ours bought a brand new Mazda RX-8 and doesn't know hardly anything about how to fix it himself.

It's not his fault. Those little fuckers are propelled by Doritos on a stick and they burn witchcraft and motor oil.

[JBird]

It's not his fault. Those little fuckers are propelled by Doritos on a stick and they burn witchcraft and motor oil.

QFT again.

[slammin.e28]

My girl knows quite a bit. She's quick to name the BMW model codes and looks happily at me for gratification when she gets them right. She just bought a red 535is and I can't wait to teach her everything about e28s. Yeah.

[Massimo]

As said before there is a lot less girls into the technical side of cars then guys.

mind you I know a lot of guys who know squat about cars.

Though I find it interesting that most if not all girls I know are never interested in anthing technical, all they care about is if it works and how to use it. Where guys seem to be interested in how that thing works and if there is another way to do it or use it.

I wish my girl was interested in cars but she is not, dosn't even want me to teach her. :(

[Fusion]

Ninja edit.

[Vivek]

Girls are probably less mechanically inclined than guys in general. I'm not trying to make any insulting statement, but simply look at the number of girls on this forum. There's maybe 4-5 females and the rest are guys. It's simply an inclination to be interested in certain things based on gender. If we went on fashion forums there would probably be a lot more girls than guys (again, I don't mean that in any insulting way, I've browsed fashion forums myself before).

[LJ851]

I've browsed fashion forums myself before

This explains a lot.

[Vivek]

This explains a lot.

Go on...?