How many of you GT players are also very interested in cars in real life?

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a car guy through and through, courtesy of Hot Wheels, matchbox, gobots, toosetoy, tonka, Ertl, and Transformers. unfortunately, i CAN'T wrench. i have DCD, and tend to strip (and round off) nuts. even putting on a spare tends to wind me, courtesy of bleedin' dyspraxia.
 
I hate wrenching on cars, I won't even change my own oil. My knowledge base is very limited on mechanical workings and if I try to do something it ends up being screwed up and I have to pay a stupid amount of money to get it fixed. It's actually cheaper for me to take it to a skilled person in the first place.

I don't mind driving but I wouldn't say I would want to live out of my car day in and day out. I'm more about easy driving to some cool place or exploring back roads if I'm going to do driving the is "just for fun".

I think what I enjoy the most about cars in learning about the different models and what they have to offer. I like to read books on how X car came to be as well as watch various TV shows on the same thing as well. I read car magazines from time to time, mostly when I can snag a copy of Top Gear but other then that the internet provides the most amount of information.

I would say I like automobiles quite a bit but for me it's just a hobby, not a way of life.
 
Duke
Just not enough to do it for a living.
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After a while, it sort of burns you out when you work in circumstances related to them. Many days, cars are rather "meh", and the soul is drained from them. leaving behind a bunch of parts and numbers and labor operations and complaints. Sometimes it is nice to hear how much people like them, even if they're not enthusiasts, because they aren't picking apart everything with a fine-toothed comb, and nobody will accuse them of bias. But other days, I want to escape: What is merely transportation one day is an escape pod the next.
 
I have loved both cars and aircraft since I was little. I got into racing games because of my love for cars :p
Also same for the various aircraft games I play, both arcade (Ace Combat and such) and sim (FSX and FS9). I also read several car and aircraft magazines, collect model cars and planes, I have two R/C cars, and I have a few car posters in my room.
I have also helped work on the old 1990 Dodge Dakota we used to have (got rid of it in 2006 when the transmission died). I helped change the fuel pump, brake jobs, oil changes, and fan belt changes along with other minor things.
Now, as for my own car I don't have one yet, since I can't afford one. But when I do manage to get a real car it will probably be something sporty, hopefully a two seater (I don't need no silly rear seats :p), although I would take various sedans as well, such as a last gen Impreza WRX (I hate the current Impreza...)
 
I love everything about cars. Cars in general, working on cars, restoring cars, driving cars, racing cars, everything. They've been a fascination of mine since I was about 2, and always will be.
 
I love car before I can actually speak the first word, because the first word I can speak is "car". :lol: Over 90% of my toys are cars throughout my childhood. The weirdest thing is my dad doesn't even have a driving license.
 
EA11R
(everything decent is, in some way, a Volkswagen)
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It's a shame they were never anything more than decent.

I like cars, driving cars, tuning cars, learning about cars, and working on MY OWN car.

I ABSOLUTELY HATE working on other peoples car's if it's not a tuning-worthy car. (as in "well designed so you don't feel like you're wasting your time on a POS")

I've been in school for 2 years towards an auto mechanic and all I've done so far is fix problems engineer's should have fixed in the first place when designing the car. Lots of times I see a engine or suspension designed around the car, (mainly domestic cars) which leads to a LOT of bad design and really hard to reach broken stuff that wouldn't have broken if they designed it well in the first place.

Which led me to hate wrenching on cars unless there's something to get out of it.
 
I'm graduating as a mechanic this spring, I hope. I've been interested of cars ever since I bought my first GTi-magazine back in '95.. and I bought it only because I thought that the car in the cover was helluva good looking. ('89 gunmetal R32 GT-R. stock exterior, even stock rims, yet sported 700bhp+.. one of first GT-R's in Finland. That's where my GT-R worshippers career started).
 
Well yeah I love cars, perhaps not so much the mechanical side but I know me and Tommi2000 talk alot about cars. Also we both collect 1:18 scale models of cars too. Sadly, that about as far as we can take it without driving illegally so I suppose thats why racing games are here for us.
 
I've been a car guy for as long as I can remember. I love to drive them, work on them clean them, and talk about them. Although the end result of cleaning and working on them is more enjoyable than the process of doing so. For me, there's almost no better feeling than working on my car for hours on end, and when I'm finally finished fixing, troubleshooting, or installing, whatever it is I'm doing at the time, stepping back and knowing that I did it myself and that it works.
 
Gran Turismo made me a car fan 10 years ago.

this is why i love the series so much, its not just a same but a way of life.
 
Duke
I love cars. I like driving them, talking to them, everything.
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Have you had this strange obsession for long? Do they speak back to you?

I am quite a rarity in that I absolutely love cars, but i'm a girl. The blokes I talk to about cars (who don't know me) are very taken aback by it. Makes I larf, it do :)
 

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