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Cars that warrant waves from other owners?

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I have to other S2000 owners. No big deal, just a simple wave. Does it warrant a wave? Not particularly, it's a fun car to drive, nothing hugely special but it's a fun car to drive about. Not the most practical.

Koing
 
LOL

Seriously, is it some sort of entry into a little known sect? Are there decoder rings?


Things to wave to others about: The meticulously restored, or great condition classic antiques cars and bikes. Classic muscle cars and the old 50's era and older. That's what should get the wave.


 
I don?t get any waves in my car, and I wouldn?t wave back even if I did.

Waving to other people who drive the same car as me just seems strange and a little pointless.
 
Originally posted by: crazySOB297
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Corvette wave
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Every 'vette owner waves. Some kappa cars do to (solstice/sky waves)
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Yep, very rare I pass another vette that dosent wave.

Minivans usually get waves too, just with only one finger up.
 
Originally posted by: RichUK
I don?t get any waves in my car, and I wouldn?t wave back even if I did.

Waving to other people who drive the same car as me just seems strange and a little pointless.
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Exactly.
 
Originally posted by: ballmode
Originally posted by: KentState
I never understood the concept unless you had a really rare car. An S2000 is about as common as they come and same with a Z.
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Not many S2000's were made compared to 350z
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It really has nothing to do with rarity as it does with state of mind.

I get attention from many people in my 240SX whether they are Nissan drivers or not. Mostly it's those in G series or Z's or other 240's...I also get a bit of attention from the S2000 crew.
 
Originally posted by: KentState
I never understood the concept unless you had a really rare car. An S2000 is about as common as they come and same with a Z.
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Dunno about the Z, but there were only about 110,000 S2000's sold worldwide over roughly 10 years. Something like 60% made it to the USA. There are less than 10,000 of my model year worldwide, and of my color, probably only 1,000 or so in the world. That's not Ferrari Enzo rare, but for a mainstream car that an Average Joe can buy, it's pretty damn rare. All hand-built, too. The fact that the general public still doesn't even know the car exists (let alone is able to identify one on the road) tells you something.

But as someone else said, I think it's more a personality thing than a strict model thing. It's a way to say, "hey, we've got something in common." I once shared a wave and a grin with a Viper owner while driving a 911, simply because we were both driving sports cars on a rarely-traveled mountain pass over the Sierra.
 
Originally posted by: AMCRambler
GTO owners wave to me now. First time it happened, I was waiting to pull out of a side road. And somebody beeped their horn a couple times and I didn't see where it came from and I thought "What's thast asshole beeping at?". Then a 68 GTO goes past with the guy waving to me. I started cracking up. My girlfriend didn't know why he was waving to us. "I'm like "That guy was driving a GTO, we're in the club now!", hehehe.
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I've never been along side a fellow GTO, only seen them from afar or going the opposite direction.
 
You wouldn't believe all the waves, horns, and thumbs up I get from my car -- I even had a chick in the backseat of a Expedition flash me once....man I'm never getting rid of my 96 Accord.
 
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: KentState
I never understood the concept unless you had a really rare car. An S2000 is about as common as they come and same with a Z.
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Dunno about the Z, but there were only about 110,000 S2000's sold worldwide over roughly 10 years. Something like 60% made it to the USA. There are less than 10,000 of my model year worldwide, and of my color, probably only 1,000 or so in the world. That's not Ferrari Enzo rare, but for a mainstream car that an Average Joe can buy, it's pretty damn rare. All hand-built, too. The fact that the general public still doesn't even know the car exists (let alone is able to identify one on the road) tells you something.

But as someone else said, I think it's more a personality thing than a strict model thing. It's a way to say, "hey, we've got something in common." I once shared a wave and a grin with a Viper owner while driving a 911, simply because we were both driving sports cars on a rarely-traveled mountain pass over the Sierra.
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110,000 isn't rare. Hell the Neon SRT-4 had less than 25k made in total with 1175 ACR versions and only 200 Commemorative editions made but that doesn't make it any more special.
 
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: Kadarin
Originally posted by: jteef
i've exchanged waves with at least half of all the other m3's i've passed
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Same here. Especially E92 owners.
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Ms, in genera,l seem to wave.
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I've gotten a wave from an E92 M3 owner when driving my LCI E90 335i. It was probably because he and I had the same color, Space Gray, which is unusual for an M3.
 
Originally posted by: zerocool84
Originally posted by: thomsbrain
Originally posted by: KentState
I never understood the concept unless you had a really rare car. An S2000 is about as common as they come and same with a Z.
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Dunno about the Z, but there were only about 110,000 S2000's sold worldwide over roughly 10 years. Something like 60% made it to the USA. There are less than 10,000 of my model year worldwide, and of my color, probably only 1,000 or so in the world. That's not Ferrari Enzo rare, but for a mainstream car that an Average Joe can buy, it's pretty damn rare. All hand-built, too. The fact that the general public still doesn't even know the car exists (let alone is able to identify one on the road) tells you something.

But as someone else said, I think it's more a personality thing than a strict model thing. It's a way to say, "hey, we've got something in common." I once shared a wave and a grin with a Viper owner while driving a 911, simply because we were both driving sports cars on a rarely-traveled mountain pass over the Sierra.
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110,000 isn't rare. Hell the Neon SRT-4 had less than 25k made in total with 1175 ACR versions and only 200 Commemorative editions made but that doesn't make it any more special.
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because it's a Neon.

The 1997-1998 240SX had a production of 5,700 total over those two years with the majority being base models...I see Neons all the time, I have only seen a car like mine maybe 6 times in traveling and living in S. Florida. Only once in the same color and then it was out of state.

I hate seeing my same car everywhere.
 
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