What does my car make me look like?

[Person Man]

[KEmperor]

A person who is able to drive a car?

[bgwah]

Upper-middle class suburban Republican.

[specific_name]

option 4, you typical white person.

[tik 🪀✨]

insecure

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Republican.  But I've known a lot of Dems who drive stuff like that.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

a typical white person. Republicans tend to drive cars like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota SUVs, Cadillac Escalades, or GMC SUVs. Oh, and Hummers. Young Republican girls drive BMW SUVs.

[dead0man]

A mid sized Ford?  You could be anybody.  A "Republican" might buy it because he "loves America" and wants to support American workers with his purchase.  A "Democrat" might buy it because he "loves America" and wants to support American Union workers.

Most people are smart enough not to judge someones politics by the car they drive.

(not that you can't tell a lot about a person by what kind of car they drive, you certainly can.  But not politics...at least not with a car as vague as a mid sized Ford.  Now if you're talking Saab's or Subaru's you can make some broad generalizations, especially if you see the person driving the car.  Or big Ford F-250's with a scrotum hanging from a shiny unused trailer hitch.  Or an early 80's full size GM car of various flavors full of Hispanics in hard hats at 7:30 on a weekday morning.)

[??????????]

Actually, deadman, if I recall correctly that particular model of Ford is made in Canada.

[dead0man]

That's not really realevent when talking about the kind of person who would buy a car because the nameplate on it is an "American" brand.

[MODU]

Interestingly enough, there was a (very unscientific) poll about the kind of cars people drive and what it says about their political leanings:  "Politics Behind the Wheel"

[AndrewTX]

OMG! THE FORD FUSION!

 I drove one while in TN (It was my rental), I loved the car. For the price, anyone could drive it.

[Хahar 🤔]

a typical white person. Republicans tend to drive cars like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota SUVs, Cadillac Escalades, or GMC SUVs. Oh, and Hummers. Young Republican girls drive BMW SUVs.

Really? Here, foreign cars seem to be driven by wealthy Asian (meaning liberal) people.

[Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred]

If it wasn't a Ford, it would make you look like a liberal Democrat.

[Person Man]

Hey, it gets 225 Horsepower on a 3.0 V6 engine, 25 MPGs, AWD, 6-speed automatic, 100 cubic feet of passenger room, 16 cubic feet of storage, satellite radio and an MP3 hookup for $22,000.

[John Dibble]

A mid sized Ford?  You could be anybody.

[MODU]

a typical white person. Republicans tend to drive cars like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota SUVs, Cadillac Escalades, or GMC SUVs. Oh, and Hummers. Young Republican girls drive BMW SUVs.

Really? Here, foreign cars seem to be driven by wealthy Asian (meaning liberal) people.

Those cars (in bold) fit more of the stereotypical democrat actually. 

[Person Man]

a typical white person. Republicans tend to drive cars like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota SUVs, Cadillac Escalades, or GMC SUVs. Oh, and Hummers. Young Republican girls drive BMW SUVs.

Really? Here, foreign cars seem to be driven by wealthy Asian (meaning liberal) people.

Those cars (in bold) fit more of the stereotypical democrat actually. 

Not really. Just people who have sh**t loads of cash, but not a very big peepee.

[Bay Ridge, Bklyn! Born and Bred]

Around here, I've seen my fair share of Obama stickers on the backs of BMWs, Mercedes, and Volvos.   

[opebo]

A horse's ass.  People please stop buying crap cars and maybe they'll stop making nothing but crap.  The only remotely decent cars still made are the Crown Vic/Grand Marquis/Town Car.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

OMG! THE FORD FUSION!

 I drove one while in TN (It was my rental), I loved the car. For the price, anyone could drive it.

The only problem is that it's a Ford and you'll never get much more than 100,000 miles out of the transmission.  (I should know—I lost four Fords that way since I started driving, and will likely never buy another Ford again because of it.)

[Person Man]

OMG! THE FORD FUSION!

 I drove one while in TN (It was my rental), I loved the car. For the price, anyone could drive it.

The only problem is that it's a Ford and you'll never get much more than 100,000 miles out of the transmission.  (I should know—I lost four Fords that way since I started driving, and will likely never buy another Ford again because of it.)

Who knows? I know a guy that has 210k on his 02 Explorer.

[opebo]

OMG! THE FORD FUSION!

 I drove one while in TN (It was my rental), I loved the car. For the price, anyone could drive it.

The only problem is that it's a Ford and you'll never get much more than 100,000 miles out of the transmission.  (I should know—I lost four Fords that way since I started driving, and will likely never buy another Ford again because of it.)

Front wheel drive Fords are atrocious all round.  But the few remaining rear wheel drive ones are much better, and in any case all we have now that GM dropped that sensible platform.

[Jake]

a typical white person. Republicans tend to drive cars like BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Toyota SUVs, Cadillac Escalades, or GMC SUVs. Oh, and Hummers. Young Republican girls drive BMW SUVs.

Really? Here, foreign cars seem to be driven by wealthy Asian (meaning liberal) people.

Remember that rich people in the South are almost uniformly Republican. Not so out west or up north.

[Person Man]

OMG! THE FORD FUSION!

 I drove one while in TN (It was my rental), I loved the car. For the price, anyone could drive it.

The only problem is that it's a Ford and you'll never get much more than 100,000 miles out of the transmission.  (I should know—I lost four Fords that way since I started driving, and will likely never buy another Ford again because of it.)

Front wheel drive Fords are atrocious all round.  But the few remaining rear wheel drive ones are much better, and in any case all we have now that GM dropped that sensible platform.

GM has the real-wheen drive 2009 Pontiac G8.