In 2023, how are cars still relevant? In the age of climate change, and a push for comprehensive public transportation, where does private ownership of cars and more importantly, car enthusiasm live?
It’s a tough question, especially as the car community itself is struggling to come up with an answer. Car meets are not what they used to be, and takeovers are becoming the reluctant staple of the car scene.
Races, both on the track and off, are becoming disorganized or are increasingly difficult to find.
Rallies and cruises are few and far between.
The few meets and car shows that are still bringing us together are cliquey and well established, making it daunting for newcomers to find their place.
Where does that leave us? As cars become the enemy, the community becomes disorganized, and the members close rank. How do we sell the idea of car enthusiasm to the new generations when we can’t seem to sell it to ourselves?
We start by embracing the new generation. We remember that we were once the kids making fun of the boomers and their Corvettes and Jean shorts. We stop our inherent prejudice against electric cars. We remember that the world is different now, and it has to be. It’s not going back. This generation will bring dramatic change to car enthusiasm and car culture, as EVs, alternative fuel, and hybrid vehicles become the dominant power trains of our future.
But it’s not just the cars that are changing, the people are too.
No longer is the community dominated by middle aged men.
Our community is expanding to include people of different genders, sexualities, ages, races, religions, and more.
If we want to see any remnants of car culture continuing well into the 21st century, we must adapt, embrace, and include.
PFA.
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Nother post today cuz no one stopped me,, here’s an older drawin I did of our favorite idiotic redneck mechanic,, my OC Chevy, AKA me as a dog 😎👍🏻 It’s also my PFP for a lot of platforms I’m on aswell xddd, never been proud of a drawin that’s more than a month old but this one is decent nuff fer me to still like it, despite it bein from like November last year 🤣🤣 anywayz hope y’all enjoy 👍🏻
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By the way, if any of y’all are interested in electric cars, zero emission vehicles, micro mobility, public transportation, and other forms of sustainable energy and transportation News, I highly recommend that you check out Transport Evolved on YouTube and Patreon.
They’re a trans owned and LGBT operated channel, and recently they’ve been struggling with hate in their YouTube comments, which is severely weighing on the host, Nikki, and her team. The automotive space, especially the EV space, is dominated with cringelord Musk stans, and cishet men, and it evokes a lot of transphobia.
So if you’re a sustainable energy or electric vehicle enthusiast and want to see some trans representation in the space without all the Musk and Tesla fanboying, go check them out, and consider supporting them on Patreon.
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roses are red
violets are blue
the sound of subaru go stututu🥲
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Still alive just existing. Mother recently sold my car I love so much just for money although I literally told her I wanted to wait till I got it under my name so we could split it but no my family sucks but I'm not to angry, I'm buying myself a car that no one in my family could ever afford without costing their entire savings anyways. I'm do 10x better then they ever could.
Anyways have some art I did during exams this week out of boredom
The orange wickerbeast is named autumn by the way, hes just a lil fella. also yes that is the Jrs mangle I drew chasing a toyota, that drawing was actually for my talented art program's exam, "take 3 unrelated sketches from your sketch book and put them together in a drawing" and so I took a random drawing of Meglaophobia Mangle (but decided to make them look like Jrs mangle in the end), and a older sketch of that Toyota drifting (which I still kinda suck at), and last but not least the background setting was just a drawing I had in my sketchbook for fun bc I was going through art block at the time but wanted to doodle in class bc yes. Plus mangle is my favorite animatronic anyway, their such a generally misunderstood character with a really interesting design and background, who wouldnt love such a terrifying creature?
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