11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

In the ignorance of youth, we all said and thought some hilariously dumb things about cars. We asked you guys to share your own experiences from your childhoods, and these are some of the best responses!
11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Speed freak

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Exhausting levels of ignorance

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Size matters

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Close enough...

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Stop horsing around

“Why is it 'horse power'? Are there actually horses inside the engine?” - Submitted by s13Roar
“Why is it 'horse power'? Are there actually horses inside the engine?” - Submitted by s13Roar…

Same same, but different...

“Why don’t you use cooking oil? It says 'oil' on it” - Submitted by verzena
“Why don’t you use cooking oil? It says 'oil' on it” - Submitted by verzena

Well, if it works for Batman...

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

If only getting a phone number was that easy...

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Four of what?

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

More engine size confusion

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

A brave admission

11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid

Any more you can add? Submit them in the comments, then check out the original community question here!

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Comments

🎺🎺thank mr skeltal

I thought horsepower was the only factor that determined how fast a car was going, then I wondered why all Semi trucks are so slow.

05/02/2016 - 06:45 |
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Johan Karlsson

Well, like I said in the original post, I thought the exhaust pipe had to be at the back, because otherwise the car would travel the wrong way.

05/02/2016 - 06:51 |
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Fin Jimbo

I didn’t think or say any of these? I only said that antenna is missing when I was sitting on the backseat of Volvo and parents said bullsh*it, you can’t see it in this speed and when we stopped they saw that it had fallen off and I had my smug face on.

05/02/2016 - 07:19 |
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11 Dumb Things You Said About Cars When You Were A Kid
RuurdJaarsma

My father used to tell me the “R” on the gear knob stood for “race”. Yeah…

05/02/2016 - 07:43 |
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Dcurleyfry

The Fiat Multipa one is unforgiveable. lol jk this is a funny post!

05/02/2016 - 07:44 |
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EaZy

i thought that turbo and nitro is the same thing.

05/02/2016 - 08:02 |
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Lukas Kimpel

The oil thing is working on a Mk II Golf… Just saying :D

05/02/2016 - 08:02 |
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Daniël Veenstra

I once asked my dad why there weren’t any cars using sheep power :D

05/02/2016 - 08:25 |
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Velstyde

I honestly don’t remember thinking anything too stupid, but my friend used to insist that cars weighed between 2 and 3 tonnes. I would answer “yeah, an armored Hummer does”. Also when I told him a Miata for example was less than a tonne, he said, “no that’s impossible, dude, cars have like engines and stuff they arent made of plastic” To this day he still thinks he’s right, and all the facts I showed him from websites can’t be right :’)

05/02/2016 - 08:26 |
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Dzonny the e36 maniaq

I have a photo in front of Multipla when I was a kid. I thought it’s very interesting. It was right when it came out

05/02/2016 - 08:32 |
5 | 0

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