5 Signs that you’re a petrol head

Petrol heads come in various shapes and sizes. Some of them like only certain car categories, others get excited about anything that has an engine. Some consider themselves petrol heads just because they watch Top Gear, others spend nights working on their car. There are many ways to describe a petrol head, but here are 5 things that can help you decide if you’re a petrol head or not:

1) You turn your head on the street every time you hear a engine revving up, or a loud exhaust. I know that maybe a lot of people do this, mostly because of the shock caused by the loud sound, but only a few get excited by it and find it satisfying when that engine “screams” louder and louder.

2) Choosing the right tires for the warm seasons takes you at least a couple of days. And here I don’t mean just searching for the best offer, I mean searching for the right tires. The ones with the best grip, the best profile, that will fit on your rims, the ones that you can afford. It is a long line of questions and standards and you end up spending a few days reading reviews, calling friends and asking them what they thinks, checking you accounts to see how much you can spend, think about not eating for a week so you can spend a bit more etc.

3) When watching an action movie and a car chase comes on, you can tell who should win just by looking at the cars. I’m not saying here that in real life all races are won just by numbers and the driver is useless, quite the contrary, but we all know that one movie where the good guy is on a mountain road in a Mustang or something like that, and he is chased by the bad guy in a huge Cadillac Escalade and somehow the Cadillac is right on the tail of the Mustang. That shit ain’t real!

4) Every time you watch a movie involving cars, you can classify each car crash as: possible, a bit overdone, and that’s not how a car works you idiots and that would never happen! Sure in the great world of Hollywood things never happen as in real life, but I can’t help getting pissed when I see that some guy misses a gear, somehow goes into second gear instead of 4th and suddenly the car is doing a front-flip.

5) You would chose infinite fuel over infinite love. Now I know that if your girlfriend (or boyfriend for the petrol head girls out there) is behind you while reading this you would say no, but the fact is, that knowing you don’t have to ever worry about fuel and you get the drive as much as you want for the rest of your life is a bit more exciting to you than staying in the same house, with the same person all your life. No need to be ashamed, it’s just how life works.