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

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I've noticed that it seems a lot of people who regularly post here are interested in fixing cars as well as GT. Seems like many people modify their own cars, some race, and a lot obsess over cars.

Me? I have very little interest in cars, except for driving them (but I don't plan on racing them, I just find driving very therapeutic and like it). I can pick out a lot of modern automobiles from a line up and know what they are on the streets, but most of that knowledge stemmed from playing racing games. I've never worked on my own car (but i've never taken it to a shop, either) and don't plan on pursuing any profession that has anything to do with cars. I'm studying mechanical engineering at one of the best schools for it, and they offer classes like internal combustion engines, diesel engines, and car dynamics (dealing with suspension, chassis deformation, and the like) but I have near zero interest in taking them. I plan on taking advanced classes in fluid mechanics and either materials or heat transfer.

Am I a minority? Am I the only one here who wouldn't list "cars" as a hobby?

PS: Don't worry, when I'm rich, I won't be driving a volkswagen passat like a lot of the professors here do. My dream car would be a Lamborghini Gallardo.
 
I love cars. I like driving them, wrenching on them, cleaning them, playing with them, talking about them, tinkering with them, everything.

Just not enough to do it for a living. Which means I don't get anything like as much time as I wish I had to play with my cars. And if I did do it for a living, I'd probably be too busy working on other people's cars to tinker with my own.
 
Duke
I love cars. I like driving them, wrenching on them, cleaning them, playing with them, talking about them, tinkering with them, everything.

Just not enough to do it for a living. Which means I don't get anything like as much time as I wish I had to play with my cars. And if I did do it for a living, I'd probably be too busy working on other people's cars to tinker with my own.
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I'm guessing this is the sentiment that everyone here shares except for me. I just love racing games, I think...
 
I love cars and I love fiddling with them and learning about them. I'm no mechanic though, anything I do takes a long time and requires the assistance of a Haynes manual. I don't modify my cars like with body kits, turbo's and bigger exhausts etc. I work on them in the sense that I just do all the maintenence work on them myself, or at least I try to. If anything needs repairing that isn't beyond my capabilities I like to do it myself, that sort of thing.

I have helped a freind modify his car in the past and I would do again should anyone want to, I just don't have the need to modify a car of my own. If I did it would be a track project not asomething you'd ever see on the cover of Max Power, I'm really not into that kind of modifying. But as I said I'm not even close to a position where I would seriousely consider starting somethng like that.
 
Dave A
I love cars and I love fiddling with them and learning about them. I'm no mechanic though, anything I do takes a long time and requires the assistance of a Haynes manual. I don't modify my cars like with body kits, turbo's and bigger exhausts etc. I work on them in the sense that I just do all the maintenence work on them myself, or at least I try to. If anything needs repairing that isn't beyond my capabilities I like to do it myself, that sort of thing.
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I think if my dad wasn't a mechanic and could fix everything but the transmission on a car, I would probably know how to fix them! :dopey: But yes, Haynes manuals are pretty much all you need.
 
I've loved cars since I was around 3. It started off with my dad buying me a scale model of a car, which if I can remember properly was a 57' Chevy. Then I ended up buying about 350 scale models. GT2 eventually came out and I was a GT addict since. I still love cars and I probably always will.
 
I've loved car's for as long as I can remember. I also fell in love with the rotary and the RX-7 ever since I first picked up Gran Turismo 1 back at the age of 8! 10 years later I pick up my dream car I fell in love with back in GT1!
 
It was the first Gran Turismo that actually kicked of my interest in cars beyond just if it looked nice or not. I read the descriptions and information boxes for almost everything in that game and I just got hooked on how cars work and what makes a good car beyond just the superficial.
 
I used to do all the simple maintenance on our vehicles (plugs, wires, oil, etc.) but after having 2 kids, that kind of gets put on hold. Sometime in the next few years I'll get back into it, though. Granted with an '05 Pilot and an '07 Civic, there isn't much to do on them yet.
 
I've always loved cars. My mother would tell me it started when she bought me my first Hot Wheels when I was just a little guy. I pretty much love anything about them. The looks, the sound, the drive, all of that matters to me. And I won't lie that GT did help increase my knowledge of cars.

These days though, I love almost any car. There just happens to be 1 or 2 companies I choose to learn more about. Cars are pretty much so interesting to me, I could be happy just being a salesmen for some top manufacturer if meant getting to see, hear, and drive them every day.
 
The reason I play GT is because I love cars. They go hand in hand. Like Peanuts and caramelized sugar.
 
I got NFSIII:HP for the ps1 and PC, And then all of a sudden, bam, Hooked on cars. I am the person to go to about cars in my school.
 
Duke
I love cars. I like driving them, wrenching on them, cleaning them, playing with them, talking about them, tinkering with them, everything.
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Couldn't have said it better.

I currently have two project cars, I just love cars in general, thats why I love GT for the cars.
 
I just like picking up chicks in them. Well, I guess my M3 is kinda' fun to drive. But, when I'm going on a date, it's a really tough choice between picking her up in the M3 or picking her up in the '84 VW Vanagon Westfalia camper. It sleeps 4, so she can bring her friends
 
I live cars. I subscribe to both Motor Trend and Road and Track, and I try to learn as much about cars as I possibly can. I can trump anyone at my school when it comes to car knowledge.:sly: But I'm not old enough to drive yet.👎

:-)
 
I've been doing stuff with cars as long as I can remember, one of my favorite pastimes as a child was just memorizing the books that my Dad would get me from the dealers. I read about them, write about them, study them, work on them, clean them... And most importantly, drive them.

I don't know what I'd be doing without them.
 
I'm a car guy as well, I love working on cars, both real and fake (i.e. models :dopey:), in fact I may as well throw in a picture of all the models I built so you can see how interested I am:
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Basically they span from when I was in 1st grade up until now.
 
Even my mother can't remember a time in my life when I wasn't completely obsessed with cars. I've stayed up many a night figuring out complex justifications for unexplained driving techniques I heard in Initial D, I have car models (I'm broke, so not many), I never og out with my friends to anywhere, preferring to play a racing game, I've played sims, arcade-style games, arcade games (warning: they're really expensive), made paper crafts, I currently subscribe to 2 car magazines (was 4 until last month, but those 2 subscriptions expired, and the mags were crap anyway), I bore the crap out of everyone I know with my car-talk, I sometimes figure out genetic trees with interlocking car companies and platform sharing (everything decent is, in some way, a Volkswagen), I will stop doing anything I am doing to hear an S2000 drive by me at high RPMs, and I know damn well that I should laugh my arse off when I see a Chevy Malibu trying to keep pace with a Honda Civic.

*takes a deep breath*

AND I can figure out a car's drivetrain by looking at it, I can

[exhaust anyone's attention span at will]
 
Obsessed with cars is me.

Somtimes, the drive to and from work is the best part of my day. Although, that probably says more about my work that day than my love of cars... :indiff:

I have a project car that I try to work on regularly. Other things keep getting in the way, dammit!

My world would be a very sad place without cars. I routinely gather information about cars in my spare time, talk about cars with my friends, and attend motorsport meetings.

And, I class my mechanic as a good friend! :crazy:
 
No. Give me a decent looking car with a decent stereo that goes from point a to point b without blowing up and I'm happy.
 
Love 'em.

Venari.
- '62 Corvette (rolling chassis, awaiting 327 short block collection and build up to fuel injected 400hp.)
- '68 Cougar (slowly fixing brakes. Running next week?)
- '74 Lancia Fulvia (In a shed. In Wales. Maybe soon.)
- '94 Mitsubishi FTO GPX (Being very quickly driven, and slowly driven into the ground, poor old stick.)
 
fastnine
I just like picking up chicks in them. Well, I guess my M3 is kinda' fun to drive. But, when I'm going on a date, it's a really tough choice between picking her up in the M3 or picking her up in the '84 VW Vanagon Westfalia camper. It sleeps 4, so she can bring her friends
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Oh look, a new member who drives an M3.

EA11R
AND I can figure out a car's drivetrain by looking at it, I can
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If the looking your doing is underneath the cars then I can understand, but there's no fool proof way to know what drivetrain a car is by looking at it's shape. You can guess, or you might know from reading the cars specs somewhere, but there's no fool proof way. You can narrow it down, for example you know that the Dodge Vipers engine is definitely at the front, not because it has a long bonnet (though that is a a fairly big hint) but because the exhausts come out the side. Howver, neither of thoes are indications that the car is definitely rwd, it could be fwd or 4wd and the shape wouldn't have to change to accomodate either. You can also tell if the rear wheels are driven by looking at the interior, but again that doesn't tell you that front ones are not.
 
I love cars in real life, have quite a few scale models but I don't do any modifications or stuff like that, I haven't really got an engineering nack for these things.

I was so into cars I couldn't wait to drive, bought a new corsa and passed first time with only like 10 lessons right after my birthday... I think playing GT helped!

I also follow like all current world events to do with cars and such, I also have quite a few books about cars, like the design yearbook ones.

Robin
 
I am very much smitten with the automobile, but I am not a hardcore enthusiast. I cannot drive, but I own a modest collection of scale models, I sketch them, and, of course, I play GT4.
 

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