Automobile stereotypes have been with us since gasoline displaced hay as fuel for people-movers.

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Have vehicle stereotypes (age, race, color, ethnic group, culture, gender, religion, social class, national origin, political movement) existed beyond American soil?

Here are the vehicle stereotypes I’ve encountered as a Generation-Jones American male having grown up in both San Mateo and Marin Counties in California. I'm not racist but this is what I have heard others say.

• Cadillacs: coffin cars, mobster automobiles, pimps of color, gay men especially in classic convertibles, old people
• Large domestic automobiles: old people and families
• Station wagons: suburban housewifes
• Pickup trucks: cowboys, hicks, farmers and blue-collar men
• Volvos, Jeep Cherokee, BMW, SAAB: yuppies
• White Rolls-Royce Silver Clouds: wealthy men of color, in the 1980's this was a "Pudding in a Cloud" joke
• Lowriders: people of color and Mexicans
• Small, particularly Japanese, compacts: high school and college girls
• Large Buicks: old ladies
• Air-cooled Volkswagen Beetles and Buses: hippies
• Harley-Davidson motorcycles: biker gangs, Hells Angels
• Camaros and Firebirds: young punks
• Ford Woodies and custom station wagons and vans: surfer boys of California
• The original Ford Mustang: a car for all people in America
• Mercedes-Benz: a car not kosher for those associated with the American Mafia: you need big American gas-guzzlers to fit into the mob types like classic Cadillacs and Lincolns
• Blue Chevrolet Impalas and Malibus: church clergymen, nuns and school teachers
• Sports cars: young doctors and dentists

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[JDBarrow]

I have not heard anybody stereotype the Tacoma with any particular demographic except for desert rats who like to race trucks off-road. Toyota trucks as of late have not had much press associating them as city trucks or suburban American grocery getters.

 

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Just delete this stupid crap

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