"2017 Stigmata? No, that's a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track."
“2017 Stigmata? No, that’s a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track.”
"On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws"
“On the US domestic market version, sure, but on the European version (made in Dresden, not the one in made in Prague of course) they had to add the 59th light back to the upper track to comply with traffic safety laws”
That's a myth. The EU models had the 59th bulb back in because they reused the the 2016 tail light array due to an overstock of the parts after the EU demand for the 2016s was lower than expected. Also, they wouldn't need to have 59b32e tail light arrays though, the production numbers of the vehicles was too low, and therefore they did not have to comply with the minimum bulb array redundancy requirements as laid out on code 187743 subsection 22.
Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it's due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.
The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578
Dammit
Even "sedan" is pushing it. Car, big car, unnecessarily big car, dumpster fire.
I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.
But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).
I can pretty much always do make.
Model for fun cars but not boring ones/trucks/vans/suvs.
Year for the outstanding exemplary best model years of the fun ones.
Any more, cars change very little between years. Sometimes hard to tell even after a "refresh" in the middle of a generation. My kid thinks it's a superpower that I can tell the differences between generations of Corvettes. Like dude, I've had car magazines in my hands since I was half your age.
There are generations. Like the same body style for several years.
I can recognize Chargers, Explorers, and Crown Vics pretty easily.
Whee - oooo! Whee - oooo!
Half of them say what make and model they are on the back. That's what those plastic words glued to them are. 🤷♂️
I’m pretty good at that and I don’t know why. I guess I just passively pay a lot of attention to car makes/models for some reason.
It has been becoming harder, though.
Not only are most cars looking alike nowadays, but manufacturers are also mostly not putting model name badges on their cars any more... :-(
Except for the models where they put the name in huge indented letters on the tailgate of hatch like the M A V E R I C K.
And they're all grey.
My friend had a grey SUV that for the life of me I could not find in a parking lot. So many gray SUVs that all look the same...
I hate the vehicle color trend of Depression Grey. And blue. And mold green.
Imagine being envious of someone with basic memorization skills.
Where's the envy? Also it's more about being interested in the subject matter than inherent ability.
What makes you think they’re envious?
My dad can look up and tell a 767 from an a330 passing over at 37,000ft. I work as a commercial pilot and tell the difference when ones parked at the terminal still. It must be some spicy brain shit
My partner is like this with birds xD
me: "Oh look, a starling!"
him: "Yep, it's a bird."
(though to be fair, he's getting better at it :P)
It's the Merlin app, isn't it? They were all just "birds" to me before I started identifying their calls... and it's a fast pipeline from there to borderline "birdwatching". What has my life become?
I pity y'all, the roads are so beautiful to me.
Isn't this the case for any hobby or niche field?
The difference is that we all come into contact with and have to deal with cars on some level whereas in case of a niche hobby people may not even know it exists. Cars are such a central part of modern life that it feels weird that some people seem to have occult insight into it that others lack. It's both a niche hobby and not niche at all at the same time, in a way.
I ran into someone and I said "How's the Corolla Cross?" and she looked at me shocked and said "No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?" I was like "Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla."
Basically, I would've written autistic guide books on local ferns if I'd been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain't found a new bird in a while.
Saw a presentation of someone visting remote islands and discovering new types of ferns. Talked about contributing to the the open database of ferns: https://fernphy.github.io/ Never too late!
I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them
The back labels are why cats sniff each other’s bums when they meet.
Always found cats names on their collars myself. Where do you live that they're putting them on the back? And why is that helpful?
I'm perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can't be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can't tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.
My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it's just a regular looking sedan
My (who I subsequently learnt very autistic) friend could identify the state of origin of number plates of cars based on their text colour. Some states had number plates written in slightly different shades of blue so this wasn’t that easy.
For them to remember the make and model was easy.
I'm not autistic, but I get this. It pisses me off when states change their designs AND the color palette, and it's not a huge change. Why not just kick me in the junk while you're at it?
All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it's stuck with me ever since.
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