"Hey man, nice looking car."
 

Last night at the WaWa (which only has 92 octane gas by the way) as I was pumping a 40ish year old guy comes out of the WaWa and walks to his truck which was at the pump next to mine. He said "Hey man, nice looking car." I have the black and it was filthy too. I just thought this was odd. I've owned probably 10 different cars in my lifetime and no one, I mean NO ONE has ever told me they liked the looks of my car. I had a 2002 Mustang GT in black that I thought was pretty good looking so that's my surprise.

Has anyone ever commented on your car in what seems like an outrageous way to you?

he was probably just fucking with you

All the time.

i was gonna flame you but then i saw you were surprised as much as i was that someone likes the look of a pu.

in my gen1 most poeple thought the exterior was meh. but when they sat down and saw the interior they would say they liked it.

he probably was looking for a blowjob to go with his hoagie. God I miss fucking Wawa.

No. People always tell me, "Shit, that thing is fucking fast!!"

Only thing ever say about my car that don't know much about it is, "what kind of gas mileage do you get in that?" and my response varies from *lol* "I didn't get this car for the mileage" or "Depends on my mood"

Only place I stay long enough for people to talk to me is a gas station, on the road, they eat my exhaust.

No guys I'm dead serious and surprised and he wasn't fucking with me. I had my friend with me and he came to the same conclusions.

Off topic: There's these 2 guys, one with a modded 2002 VW GLI 1.8t fully bolted, and another with a brand new DSG 2.0T with just a chip and intake. They both talk smack, esp the new one that can "run 20 pounds of boost." So we happened to meet up yesterday and I showed them my car. I showed them that all it has is intake and a chip (basically) and an upgraded fuel pump (which surprisingly they both seemed to know about having a fuel pump driven by the cam hmmm). He really thought the AP was cool (I had it hooked up taking some Bucker Stage 1++ logs) and I showed him all the shit it can monitor. I mean these guys acted like they'v never seen such a thing. I asked them if they wanted a ride and they both did. I went back and forth twice on an empty parking lot just topping out 1st and 2nd and getting some LC/FFS action in there. When we were done, only the guy with the 2002 said anything and his words were, and I quote, "Be careful with this thing." I guess 20psi in a 2.0T is ghey. That about sums it up :chairshot:

Nobody told you anything nice about your Mustang because it was a Mustang. Everybody has one.

*random person looks at GenPu*

"Hey, is this car that new Kia?"

Its only happened to me a couple times by a person that appears to be uninterested is automobiles. I mean, just some dude in a PT Cruiser or Ford pickup type. As far as gear heads, and other people that share the same automotive interests as we do, it happens regularly.

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He was distracted...

god damnit! I knew it would only be a matter of minutes before someone interpreted my somewhat imperfect grammar like that. No I was not pumping the man jesis.

i get people saying stuff like "nice genpu is it your boyfriend's car" or "looks like that car takes it in the poop shute" every now and then I get real compliments and wtf just passed me looks though

every fucking time!

and yes.. this too:silly:

I really meant this to be a serious thread but I shoulda known better :stooges:

i'm serious :wink1:

I get compliments on my car usually weekly. No one around here knows what it is but they think its nice. Then I lc and they cream themselves.

I've had my neighbors comment on it when I got it, and in the couple months I've had it I've gotton 3 random compliments from people.

Sadly it's mostly women who have given the most compliments... a few guys, but mostly women. And the smile never gets the crap, it's always that damn wing. "Yeah nice wing, gives you lots of downforce for... some purpose.." I think it's only there because the WRX/STI has one :smh:

GenPu owners tell me all the time that they love my GenWon's looks...

:439:

Hmmm...wonder if "Hey man, nice looking car." is slang for gay craigslist orgies. I hope you failed the test.

i usually act like this....

I had a guy tell me my pu looked cute. I don't think thats a compliment.

Only random comment I've ever had on the PU was when a Subaru guy said it must be turbo because of the hood scoop. Most of my car guy friends think it's ugly as sin and unforuantely I have to agree...you don't buy this car for looks. When I had my RX-8 though, people would comment on it all the time...I'd come out of a store and there'd be someone just staring at it. Beautiful car IMHO.

Can't wait for the Kodo inspired MS3 to come out in a couple of years. The design language looks promising. Anyone seen the new Takeri concept? Looks good.

Got flipped off once, that count?

I got complements in my rx7 and the speed. Only I get more 'your cars cute' from girls while in the speed. :(

i get a few compliments up here too..
But once this guy in a 09 ish civic SI yelled "nice ford"...

I work for a dealership and every Wednesday I bring my car in for cleaning/modding. Every time I do there's no less then 3 people that tell me the car looks good, or "it looks sick with those wheels". The questions I hear the most are " how did u fit those wheels in your fenders?" or " where the fuck did you get that sick front lip?". Lol

My car gets the most attention at the Mazda dealers as well. Any time I stop by I get a host of different comments and questions from sales people and technicians, including offers to buy it. Most common comment at the dealer.

"wow, a Speed 6. You just dont see these anymore."

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I usally get " hey nice mini van"

yes

Honestly, I get compliments all the time from non-car people and car people alike.

I once had a hobo on a bike ask to trade me rims when i had my tiburon.

Now, all i get are odd looks at car show's because people can't figure out where my hood scoop is.

I also had a couple old guys say that my car was a turbo-diesel.

Why the fuck is it that no one knows what mazdaspeed means? Non-car people will say things like 'I have a friend with a Mazda 3' or 'I almost got a 3.' But everyone knows what an sti is.

Had one guy saying it was teh slow because rotary :facepalm: ..... damn Hondouches

I'm just going to re-badge to MPS/Axela badges and REALLY throw people off.

Its true that these cars are just Mazda 3s and 6s to most people. I assume that's why they tend to go unnoticed in places other than at the dealer, or car events, where people there realize what these cars are.

I have had way more comments on my 72 C-10 than my MS6. But those comments 100% of the time come from old white guys who get excited because they "had one just like it" when they were younger.

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I dont give 2 shits what people think about how my car looks. I just love to see their expressions when they inhale my turbo soot :moon:!

I get quite a lot of compliments on how my car looks, I didn't expect it honestly. There was you got a girly car one time too. Most people though have no fucking clue what Mazdaspeed is but I don't care.

I'd have to guess it's because Mazda has done a piss poor job of branding when it comes to the Mazdaspeed name. I haven't seen any advertising of Mazdaspeed but I've seen all kinds of branding for Skyactiv (even my wife asked about it and if the MS3 had it).

Doesn't help that they DC'd the dealer parts either even if they were rebadged. They also lack some consistency as well...e.g. RX-8 Shinka and R3 editions should have been branded as Mazdaspeeds to help build brand equity.

Entering WRC or ALMS would help too. Most people aren't going to figure it out by a small badge on the back of a car that looks nearly identical (to the untrained eye) to its non-speed brethren.

I'm glad noone knows what an MS3 is, it's part of the reason I bought the car. It looks like a soccer mom's grocery getter. It's cool to be stealth:fuckyou:...

^This

One of the major reasons I first got into ms3s was because they are less known.

My 98 Cobra I got compliments all the time(pretty much everyday)

04 Ranger people complimented it a decent amount as well.

My MS3 I've only had people compliment or trash talk my rims...lol. which most people actually compliment them, which is weird to me lol.

I wonder how many people think we're retards who dumped money into a regular 3 or 6, I'm guessing quite a few.

The first time my buddy saw my car he said "Nice car. What do they call that color - Fuck You Blue?"

personally I like the no attention getting looks of my car. ( it is also true for the police... wich is great)

I even removed my mazdaspeed badge to get even less attention from ricers who would think I put that badge on as a mod lol.
The looks on peoples faces and the "oh shit" they say when they ride with me and I punch it is really priceless.

I get the occasional "nice speed" and "is that a speed?" mostly from people driving the regular mazda 3.

strangely, I get a lot less people wanting to race me with this car, than when I had a 106hp civic cx hatchback...

i get attention all the time. thumbs up, comments and about three or four of my neighbors said they want to buy one. i told them that its a FWD and they didnt care, they just love the way my car looks

then again, i got coils, PC rx8 wheels and a different bumper which makes it a bit different than everything else on the street

Should put typeR and VEEETAK stickers on them and then people would be commenting on our cars all day long and wanting to race us.

That reminds me, I need to take a few people for a ride. Been a minute since I have seen those faces. :smirk:

The only person who said my car looks nice is my mom. She didn't like my genjuan.
My friend's wife asked "Who's girly car is that?"
And my girlfriend calls it a Lesbaru.
So no. Fail genpu.

I've had an older guy ask me casually about the car I was driving, but he did it in such a way as to tactfully gauge how much I might (or might not) know about it. Turns out he has a Corvette, and was just riding around on his Harley, and he's had a couple turbocharged cars before. And it all started with that hood scoop, because that was the first question he asked me when I got out of the car to buy a coffee.

I've had a couple more random compliments since then (one from a guy who had just finished pumping gas, and another from a random speed owner (local). But for the most part, I'm actually kind of glad that nobody else seems to realize what the car really is, and pass it off as a regular Mazda 3 hatchback.

some kid tried to tell me the ms3 was girly.






...he drives a honda fit.

ive had a bunch of people tell me the car looks great. i had a guy in a 2.5 hatch pull up next to me and ask me where i got my aftermarket hood LOL.

took the ms3 to a mechanic to do the install on my internals. Proceeded to tell me the car does not have a fuel pump in the hood lol. Proceeded to do the install myself lol. He did say nice car though.

Ive actually gotten a lot of compliments. Mainly from people who know cars. I have also gotten compliments from people who dont know. Then shit talk about my smiling retard. Then when they get beat they realize its a shit eatin grin, a lovely fuck you of sorts!

I get a few here and there.....but the people in Vegas are vain stuck up douchebags....that speaks for itself. Which Wawa? Gotta be harford or PG county.

Sounds like you made the right choice, there's no way he wouldn't have screwed it up...

tapatatapa...DROID 2 GLOBAL... etc etc

I get a couple compliments here and there but one particularly sticks out to me. I was driving in a 25 zone. Some idiot pulls up next to me in a regular 3 and calls my car a rice rocket. 25 zone turned into a 55 zone...he punched the gas, I pulled up next to him and said, wow your car is fast, and then I proceeded to show him what a rocket can do. The expression on his face was priceless. We hit a red light and he was like....whoa, wtf did you do to your car?!?!? Told him I feed it rice, lol!!!

Bitches and queers all love my turbo wagon! Duh!

I've had women and ricers tell me they like my car, which makes me wish noone said anything :ponder:

Had a friend (girl) buy a regular 3 right around the same time I picked up my speed. I have had 3 different conversations with her since then to explain they are not the same car and what makes them different...I finally gave up and just took her for a quick ride. The car did a much better job getting the point across.

Funny you are right. It's the newer one near Harford Mall on RTE 1 (Belair Road). Harford County. How'd you guess? Maybe it was YOU ?!?!?

honestly, i have had multiple people comment on my car and say how good it looks. and i've literally done nothing to the exterior. my shit is still a fish bowl. the best part is i always tend to have someone with me to witness it.

outside the reston Best Buy, one guy and his wife told me they test drove one and loved it. asked how i liked it (i said it's great) and after 5 minutes they said they were going to pull the trigger on it.

gas stations, shopping center parking lots, and traffic lights. it's weird.

It is weird, and people in this area (Baltimore, Washington, NoVa) are not known to be friendly! I bet they drool over these things in San Francisco or whatever.

people say it to me all the time, and i'm beginning to think they're mocking me.

LMAO! ghey.:supergay:

I haven't owned my ms3 long enough, but I don't expect to receive any compliments considering the rather "hoity-toity" area I live in. I'm sure most people don't even realize it is much different than a regular mazda3.

Let's ask Ray Charles what he thinks.... Oh nvm.

I love when people ask me that. I always want to say "I fucking hate this thing, that's why I bought it!" But I'm too nice.

Only compliment I ever got was from 2 white kids crossing the street in Chinatown. 1 compliment in 1 year of owning the car. But that was also right after I finished polishing and waxing my car. So it's shiny and stands out o_o.

I love this car. Lots of people think it's a Mazda3. Hondas and shit doing their ricer flyby only to find out they made a mistake.

Have you ever SEEN Ray Charles' wife!?!?







































Neither has he.

I never get anything but questions.

"Hey that's got a rotary, doesn't it?"
"What year is that?"
"Is something wrong with your car? I saw a bunch of smoke back there."
"Why does it say Mazdaspeed? Isn't that a Mazda 3?"

I could care less. Makes it a happy sleeper.

I get comments here and there.

One that sticks out was this time I was walking into the local Sheetz a worker was coming out just as I made it beep. He goes, "man that car looks mean."

But most people have no idea what it is (I like), and my friends just think I'm nuts for making the car any faster. But they do enjoy going for rides in the speed.

an 80+year old man stopped me the other day as i got out of the car and, after asking me what it was, told me he really liked my car.

i was driving the miata.

no homo.

i tell u what i live here in odessa tx and i git compliments weekly about specially at sonic and the mall.

With the exception of my close friends who ive let drive my car (and they all want one now) its usually girls who say anything.

"I like your car, it looks zippy"
"Your cars cute, it looks like a hot wheel"
"Why did you buy a rollerskate?"


Still, im not one for compliments. Im much more satisfied by looks of bewilderment when WOT ;)

When I drive around every now and then I get a question that just makes me want to stab myself.....

"hey man is that thing turbo?'

OF FUCKING COURSE ITS TURBO....its not a mustang so the scoop is actually FUNCTIONAL....maybe they dont catch on from the bpv ping, intake/tih sucking, turb spoolin, black clouds with thunder from exhaust, or the sudden abrupt change in rpm+wheelspin from a quick goose in 1st or 2nd gear.

I feel better now

Let me guess, you stopped at a rest stop??? lol

Got my first compliment tonight from a dude who was working at the convienient store i frequent. He said hey is that your zoom zoom? lol yeah. He says those things are pretty badass, dont they have like 260hp? Ahh yeah thanks man.

usually no compliments but alot of stare or wondering what it is. mines debadged and throws them for a loop

Saw an old dude snap some pictures of my pu on his way out of the wing joint I was eating at today.
He ended up getting in a nicely kept SC400

Only once did I get a random compliment, some guy driving a regular Subaru. I came out of Dunkin Donuts by my house after washing the car, and he was like thats a really nice looking car, what kind of car is it? I tell him its a Mazdaspeed 3. Hes like, a what? Who makes that. Figures, the only compliment I ever got was from a guy who didnt understand shit.

On a side note, my girl tells me on a daily basis, you do know youre driving a station wagon right?

Had some old guy lean on my car with his coffee.. So I hit my panic button, never seen someone do confused before.

He proceeded to look around for another 15 seconds, until he realized his car was 30 feet away lol.

Haha!!! I had a guy yesterday say,
"Wow, nice! Is that a Subaru?!"

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Average about twice a month I get a compliment. Seems to be no specific sex/age group either. Hell, I thought they were just hittin on me! Damn car.

I get thumbs up from some WRX and STi drivers around town, as well as from a local fixed up 300zx and the rare MS3s around here.

EVOs, the lone MS6, and Si drivers tend to ignore me and cut me off all the time :(

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Most other drivers on the road don't pay me too much attention except for riced up regular 3s. I did have a turbo VW Beetle messing with me the other day, no idea what this guy had done to it but it was surprisingly quick from a dig. Bout the gayest thing ever cause it was cream colored with a sunroof or soft top or whatever and he was hispanic with the wet-look wavy hair and probably lots of cologne. Damn Antonio Banderas moves out in his little beetle-bug haha.

I would have put my car in reverse. How the shit fuck is a beetle being mentioned on this forum.

Sent...while I take a dump.

This guy in a BMW kept staring at me a few days after i got it when i pulled up to a gas station and he goes "bro thats nice" what is it? Then when he was leaving he pulled his car right next to mine and he asked where i got it..... This guy looked bewildered he was in a 7 series beemer.. Ha ha

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My only comment so far was when I took the wife to a Kia dealer just to look around for her...wasn't really planning on buying anything. I park right in front of the doors in the only empty spot and a salesmen comes out right away. He goes "I hope your planning on trading that in." Later we are talking to him and he wanted to know more about the car. He goes "what year and type of Toyota is it?" I just laugh and tell mysef "that's why he works at a Kia dealership."

You should have told him its a Axela

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I get compliments on my car all the time. The best one was, " thats one pissed off looking sedan". But i drive a speed six so....

My favorite is what my best friends wife said. "When did you get the station wagon?."

Never get compliments besides from people in other nice cars. NOT ENOUGH SPEEDS IN HARCO. I'm surprised i haven't seen you around Fortess...

I haven't gotten any random compliments on the car other then from other enthusiasts, but I have walked out to my car before a couple of times while out and about where people are circling around it looking at it with a confused look on their faces, probably trying to figure out what it is, but as soon I walk towards it they walk away quick. lol

Girls at my school tell me it's cute... :banghead:
Guys at my school ask me to race... :stupid:

Well, not surprising, I've had at least one person mistake my car for a Toyota Matrix (I didn't bother to correct her)

i once got on it leaving the restaurant/bar my girlfriend worked at...she was working the tiki bar outside talking to a couple buddies of mine and hears 2 old guys fighting over that "badass suv" that just "hauled ass outta there" and they couldn't agree on whether it was a buick or "one of those fancy fuckin crossover things"

it's usually easier and always more fun to just tell people it's slow and let them form their own opinion lol

i also actually get about 5 compliments a month, maybe more. but my car is all blacked out and lowered and whatnot so it stands out a bit...almost every time i'm with my buddy in his STI somebody compliments it lol. it's ridiculous.

Substitute "Toyota Matrix" for "Shit Wagon". I fucking hate how people lack attention to detail. Makes me want to stay in the military until I am shitting my diaper.

Yeah I think that is what he was thinking. Oh well, I kinda like the fact that no one ever knows what it is and its different.