10 Words That Strike Fear Into Every Petrolhead

We asked you what one word, on its own, is enough to scare anyone who's into cars. Here are the 10 best suggestions!

Darren Cassey

16 Mar 2016

10 Words That Strike Fear Into Every Petrolhead

1. More emotional than losing a pet

2. Because you know your wallet's going to take a hit

3. Some people just want to spoil your fun

4. You just have to hope something awesome isn't underneath!

5. One for the purists

6. Another word to make your wallet cry

7. The longer it's made, the more you'll see IRL

8. The anti-petrolhead machine

9. When your baby is taken away

10. Because you know you've been happily driving a death trap

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Comments

prepares for hate comments

I quite like the way the Prius on this list, it looks nice with that front end

YOU forgot the one major thing

FRAUD

The concept car is not going to be produced…. :(

whenever there’s a post concerning rice malaysian plates would often show up
not sure if proud or shame

“Self-driving”

To be honest, I don’t hate Prius that much, I wouldn’t buy one, but if I had one as a gift, I’d keep it.

Sam D must be a Camaro owner

Mini Cooper R50… so not much better!

I was thinking about ”insurance”.

I don’t think number 3 should be feared but embraced .
The better your burn your fuel inside your engine the better it is as you are going to reject less unburnt or badly burnt fuel (lost energy) in your exhaust gases . You don’t want to transform your ponys into smoke and make your car less efficient!