35 Driving Memes Perfect For Late Summer Road Trips

Are we there yet? If you still want to drive on down to the beach before the kids have to go back to school and it gets too cold to go outside, you’ll love these driving memes!

‘Romance is temporary, the project car is forever’: 23 Memes Every Car Lover Will Understand

Is owning a car basically just adopting an extremely expensive metal pet with commitment issues? Car people truly operate on a completely different emotional frequency from the rest of society. Normal people hear a strange engine noise and schedule an appointment. Car lovers hear the same noise and immediately begin a three-hour detective investigation involving …
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Mechanic charges woman $3400 for an oil change that should’ve only cost $120: ‘They required windshield wipers and parking lights be replaced.’

The mechanic was celebrating the second she walked out of the garage.  One of the best ways to avoid getting scammed is knowing what things should cost. A bodega clerk once tried to charge me $12 for a pack of Hostess cupcakes and a 20-oz bottle of Diet Coke, and I immediately called him out. …
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Man secretly drains his 401k retirement account and takes credit card loan to upgrade his old truck, breaking is fiancée’s trust who calls off their engagement: ‘ [I] found the truck upgrade invoice. It’s 22k. There’s no way he had saved that much money’

Every couple eventually hits that one argument that quietly decides the relationship’s future. For some, it’s kids, for others it’s holidays or politics. For this pair, it was a truck.  Not a shiny new one either, but a 2006 Ford that somehow transformed into a twenty‑two‑thousand‑dollar black hole. 

‘They think I don’t need the money’: Babysitter Gets Short-Changed by Cheap Parents After They Find Out She Drives a Nice Car

If you went to the gas station and tried to give the cashier $1 for a gallon of gas, they’d probably laugh at you and send you packing. We learn from an early age that goods and services cost money, but somehow, once entitled parents spawn an expensive baby, normalities don’t apply to them anymore. …
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‘Y’all thought my $1400 Tahoe payment was bad’: Nonsensical woman baffles internet with combined $3000 monthly car payments

One of many things that has up to this point made me a committed non-driver is that acquiring and maintaining a vehicle can be incredibly expensive. Everyone knows that a car loses up to 10% of its value as soon as it’s driven off the lot, and yet many people find themselves paying it off …
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‘She reported my vehicle as abandoned’: Karen calls cops on neighbor for parking in front of her own house

Everyone hates a tattletale. If someone is doing something wrong, they’re probably going to get caught anyway, so why put yourself in the middle of it? I especially hate people who create conflict where there isn’t any in the first place. That is precisely what happened to one Redditor who got the bylaws called on …
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‘She reported my insured and used vehicle as abandoned’: Karen calls bylaw on neighbor for parking in front of her own house

Having a car in the city can be a nightmare. If you’re living it up in the burbs with a two-car garage, you can tuck your vehicle away inside an extension of your house, away from the public’s prying eyes. If you live in, let’s say, Columbus, Ohio, your entire life is dictated by where, …
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‘They never mentioned this in Blade Runner’: Ford smart car refuses to start when software update fails, prompts derision from the internet

Car problems are a unique level of stress. When the thing you need to get from A to B starts throwing a tantrum about it, it automatically makes life seem so much harder (as well as more expensive). One of the many reasons that they are so upsetting is that there are so many factors …
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30+ Screwed Up Cars for Unhinged Gear Heads

When I was a kid, there were a few very memorable cars that could periodically be spotted around town. The first one was the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Every time we saw that bad boy cruising past our high school, we’d burst into song and belt out the Oscar Meyer Wiener jingle. The scene was like …
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