“Subaru” Is Australian For “Jackass”
I was hanging out tonight with Reaper, and we decided to get some ice cream (from Ritter’s, the best ice cream store on Earth). On our way back to Reaper’s Subaru WRX STi, some dude stopped us and started asking Reaper various questions about the vehicle. After a few standard questions about horsepower and gas mileage, the guy suddenly asks “Aren’t Subarus Australian?” We couldn’t believe our ears. Later on, we surmised that the guy must have been thrown off by such car names as the “Outback” and “Forester” from Subaru. Yikes.
Categorized as Cars, Quick Takes, Randomness
Wow, that’s steep ignorance. Australian? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? But I think you’re right, the dude must have been thinking of the Subaru Outback when he said that. And Paul Hogan doing the old Subie commercials. I mean, with Paul Hogan, they must be Australian, mate!
The irony, of course, being that my car is the Australian one…and likely the only Australian car to be found round these parts. Nobody ever knows what it is though; most people assume it’s a BMW of some sort, or a G6. But a guy on the GTO forum tonight asserted that a blonde babe recently complimented him on his “nice Mustang.” Guess what she was driving? A Mustang!
Okay… now that’s pretty bad. She can’t even determine the difference between a GTO and what she is in fact driving?!
Hah, that’s pretty funny; maybe she didn’t realize what she was driving. =P
But yeah, Subaru dude was odd. He kept harping on whether or not the WRX had all-wheel drive, and commented that he thought the car got really good gas mileage (despite Reaper telling him that his tank is approximately 14 gallons and gets, at best, 300 miles to the tank — and that it required premium gasoline; in spite of all that, the dude kept saying “that’s pretty good gas mileage”).