What is Furry Car Culture?

[@jw6188]

A furry who drives a Jaguar must feel so self satisfied.

[@gobgobcachoo]

Funnier still if the fursona is a mouse. CARVORE

[@WaveyJaguar]

That would be me a Jaguar based off my Xtype Jaguar.

[@flopjul3022]

or a Lamborghini Murcielago(Lamborghini logo is a bull and Murcielago is bat)

[@gobgobcachoo]

@@flopjul3022 Bruce Wayne drives the murcielago and dresses up as a bat..🤔🤔🤔

[@OppDoc]

​@@gobgobcachooThat's why they use that car

[@generalformat]

So many system admins in one place.

[@PlatinumNath]

and a few suspiciously rich furries in disguise hidden within the crowds

[@quuxummephitida1219]

I couldn't make Furrydelphia this year and thus was named "Designated Survivor of IT"

[@x_aquatix_x]

oh please be quiet, you are ruining I.T for me.

[@LexYeen]

​@@x_aquatix_xbuddy, I don't know how to tell you this gently, so I'll be blunt instead: there's at least one national science lab which has a furry as a network admin. unless you're willing to stop using the internet, in this the two-thousandth and twenty-fourth year of our luigi, you will not escape furries and the things we've done. so just admit you're homophobic, or transphobic, or queerphobic, or all of the above and stop wasting our time and yours.

[@c.n.crowther438]

cisn'tadmins mayhaps

[@sausagedog52]

until now I didnt realise why all of my cars have been cheap and fren shaped

[@flopjul3022]

my car also has big eyes and a smile too and im a gay furry Seat Leon 1p

[@spicyroo4429]

same lmao

[@beat-man5167]

Furries 🤝 Drifters giving friends stickers

[@kevinm.n.5158]

That handshake is missing hamsters and cockroaches

[@xdavie3]

What about furry drifters 🤔

[@themadscientest]

Also "absolutely smashing rear ends"

[@xdavie3]

In before the "what, Mr. regular is a furry!!!???" Comments

[@kevinm.n.5158]

Found the furry

[@MaleficRacing]

And they’ll also be wondering why he doesn’t have a girlfriend.

[@kingdededelicious]

I'll do you one better, A Fox in Space is canon to the RCR lore (they collabed)

[@PlatinumNath]

Me when I read comments of people being surprised that Mr. Regular is a furry because they didn't pick up the hints since season 1

[@worawatli8952]

@@PlatinumNath Another thing is, so many people still think that his occasional gay jokes were just acting. lol

[@zeanamush]

Glad to see RCR being comfortable with himself

[@musewolfman]

It's been a wild, but very pleasant journey, watching it happen.

[@MrObsvenchilde]

Being himself on his side channel for personal things. How transformative.

[@zeanamush]

​@@MrObsvenchildeHe couldn't have made this vid in 2016-2018. His mindset about himself wouldn't have allowed it. This is a little too parasocial I'll admit, but I remember the content at the time and I remember it feeling safe and impersonal and filled eith depression.

[@CoudyGeek25]

Absofrikinlutely!!

[@kosmokat111]

every furcon I've gone to has had a car meet, and it's always been some of the most eclectic, bizarre yet genuinely awesome cars. Also a friend of mine is currently DIY restoring a Holden Gemini that cost about 10% as much as her fursuit so that tracks lmao.

[@ShingoKirishima1997]

Gotta ask how many of these meets had cars with Street Animals banners?

[@MuscleCarLover]

I thought Geminis were going up in price. Hell, Camiras are fetching over 2 grand now

[@kosmokat111]

@@MuscleCarLover lmao hers is an absolute shitbox to be fair.

[@MuscleCarLover]

@@kosmokat111 lol, fair enough then

[@RosaFriend]

That bit about loving unremarkable cars because of how I was treated really hit home. Before I knew I was trans or neurodivergent or even a furry, I loved the tiny car, the unloved car, the plain car. I would see how far I could get in GT4 in a kei car or a starter civic. I couldn't connect with the sports cars and super cars that other games had, but a little kei car trying its best to keep up... now that I could understand.

[@d3str0i3r]

yo, same, playing GTA4 after beating the campaign and going to online i told myself the first car i would pay significant attention to was the surfer van, and that was only because unlike saints row you could only customize vehicles you'd reasonably see on the road so i couldn't bring that rusty old tractor that spawns by the lighthouse to a garage and give it the attention it deserves second car was the relic because in my head some rich collector didn't deserve the little cutey...and also i'd just watched madmax and decided my GTA Online avatar/persona would be a warboy

[@anthonyrowland9072]

You ever watched Gattaca before?

[@sudmuck]

I feel the same way!

[@SSFhighcommandJOHN]

I feel the same way, but I also feel my attraction to things like Chevelles, or Dodge Vipers is, or stems from a desire to be more than I started as. More then people ever told me I could be. I was always called a slur or, insulted, and always told I'd be nothing. Maybe it's vanity. But, my daily is a 1980 dollars Crown Vic that has 9200 idle hours so...

[@kaitlyn__L]

Same!!

[@EquusSilvermane]

For the record the median good delivery fursuit costs 5k-8k USD and is based on the assumption of 80 hours of work, or two weeks full time, plus materials. Over 10k is what one pays for a high demand A-list maker and/or a complex suit. It's still accurate that the suit inside the car costs more than the car.

[@ShingoKirishima1997]

I am looking into makers for my suit, my dream maker is LazyJoy out of Japan. A Lazy Joy partial (can't do full suit because I like clothing on my Sona and it's hard as a chunky boi) costs like $5k and she is a rather desired maker in my local area. A few furs around here have one of her suits

[@Shiruvan]

A lot of custom arts, things that we know we don't need any more than food, is compared to under fast food, hell, food material prices, so naturally other 'commercial', industrially produced items get compared in normies' brains, what's up with that contradiction?

[@gilbertg.8501]

Im so sad I missed AC, but yeah that thesis is pretty dead on. That car show looked like a blast, not just because I know like 1/3 the cars shown in the video either

[@LexYeen]

​@@kevinm.n.5158bro, why are you upset about people enjoying their life?

[@crassirus]

"They love unloved vehicles" "Haha, thats funny! Can't relate since I don't have a car-" When suddenly my eyes settle on my ebike, which is a brand model that got discontinued for selling poorly and being weird.

[@smentertainment9008]

I have a car that was discontinued... for selling poorly and being weird.

[@duskshadowpaws4434]

Kinda explains why I really like Mazda RX8's hehehe ^,^

[@MuscleCarLover]

I love this new "I can't be bothered to hide it anymore" side of you, it's so pleasing to see you just fully embrace it openly

[@gregorysteffensen3279]

With the amount of individualized expression -- custom art, custom suits, matching fashion and color schemes -- readily on display at fur cons, it absolutely tracks that furries would be equally meticulous with cars if that's also within the purview of their individual fixations. lord knows furries go WILD with their hyperfixations as a general rule, I know plenty of motorcycle furries too and they're just as wild with it as the car furs are

[@ToastyMozart]

*purrview

[@kevinm.n.5158]

Found the furry

[@kaitlyn__L]

Reading this I felt called out for meticulously colour matching my clothes lmao But it’s true, cons are the only place I see everyone put that same effort into their outfit!

[@chilli1695]

This video was actually, unironically very informative and did a very good job explaining the scene so someone on the outside (me) could understand. Very well made video.

[@KinTheFennix]

As someone who's been in this fandom for almost 20 years, I've never seen anyone so articulately and respectfully discuss our fandom and aspects there in it. Been a huge fan of your car stuff for years and to see you approach something I hold so near and dear to my heart with that same love and care is genuinely uplifting. I appreciate you, my dude. Thank you.

[@kyle8952]

Mr Regular has been a furry for about 25 years. Sona used to be a dragon, I don't think he currently has one.

[@vintageshed965]

In conclusion, I was unknowingly part of furry car culture for years 😅

[@Acoustic_Theory]

Welcome in

[@valettashepard909]

Yeah I find myself relating to a lot of this and I don’t even have a fursona

[@d3str0i3r]

i wonder what percent of furries were like me, where they watched brave little toaster as a kid and found themselves relating to the cars in the junkyard singing about how tired and unappreciated they were or that computer that was literally, actively dying of old age but was still singing about how all he wanted to do was make sure no one else felt his pain or watching herby, or zum, and being like "hell yeah i like this little guy, that's the kind of car i want" also, that final thesis statement, either imaginary or anthropomorphic are redundant because the lack of real anthropomorphic animals means including anthropomorphic implies a fictional or imaginary aspect, meanwhile the inclusion of imaginary and persona in the same statement implies the imaginary animal represents a person, making the word anthropomorphic redundant because the human-like characteristics are already implied

[@OJ_36]

I'm not a furry myself, but Worthless screwed me up. I think that and (especially recently) feeling like a misfit for other reasons, I love weird/unloved cars and I want to keep them running for as long as possible.

[@edu7979]

i hate seeing images of good fixable cars in junkyards

[@edu7979]

@@OJ_36i am currently looking at a MINT 1999 lumina for sale at my city for like 1 something thousand usd, like i for god knows whay reason love cars from the US from the 1970s-1990s, and a few japanese ones from the 1990s-mid 2000s like oh my fucking god subaru legacy wagon from 1999? 1977 vista cruiser? 1978 lincoln versailles? 1998 Accord? my grandmas 1989 mercedes 300SEL (i know its german and more wished than the rest)!!!!!!!

[@turbochargedtransit7241]

Furry car culture is a very special thing tbh, I've always said furries have great taste in cars at every con parking lot I've been to. (btw I was the fox with the ///M stripes that you gave a ride in the crazy taxi at NYFB last year lol)

[@phoenixproto3149]

As a furry with a shitbox '82 Firebird, I would LOVE to meet more of these people. Not many in Cali it seems

[@lightningdash2794]

My best friend has a shitbox 84 Firebird! XD But heyyyy we're all the way down in Canada xD Still referred to as "CA" but not the same "CA" 😂😂

[@jeremyhoeye]

3rd gen F-bodies are the best of the breed IMHO

[@R.A.Meenan]

More than you think! Got a Scion FRS 10 series here. ;) Not the same as a Firebird, but def furry car culture. XD

[@Tycho_3111]

I own an f87 M2, also a furry in Cali who can't find anyone lol

[@kaiyotee2475]

We all went to Washington I guess

[@Sharion.Inuyatt]

“They’re all friend shaped cars” My favorite cars are friend shaped. I guess I’m a furry.

[@scorinth]

*looks at your pfp* I doubt this is news to you.

[@Motoroil20xx]

I'm a furry with a non-op S13 240SX, which I've always considered a "friend-shaped" car, especially mine as it's essentially 95% stock, fully stock externally.

[@skyty0]

Not a furry, but i love car furries because they're rarely ever assholes like most typical car dudes are. I love being able to talk about cars and bikes with other enthusiasts without it devolving into a conversation about how much the person I'm talking to hates women lmao

[@zzoinks]

Oh No does that actually happen?

[@Raeshlavik]

The bit with the suits costing more than the car, the display of said fursuit, and stickers tracks across so many groups... For example, here in Colorado you get $10,000 bikes strapped to the top of $1000 Subarus that are covered in stickers for various rides the owner has been on. Same sort of thing, but with more spandex and less colorful carpet. :)

[@ralphharrison6622]

im a car guy. def not a furry. my daughter is into the furry culture. im a supportive dad, so even tho its weird af to me, i dont judge. the one relatable aspect i share is the off beat non popular car love. id take a clapped out celica over a hood cat any day. give me a 79 el camino over a lifted pavement princess. also, diy repairs is on par with most car people. not all of us are rolling in cash😅. lastly, i like to add, i do admire the dedication, and the friendship the furry culture seem to share. in closing, as a non fur, car guy, you critters keep rockin!

[@forceawakens4449]

If more people were like you the world would be a better place for everyone :)

[@ralphharrison6622]

@@forceawakens4449 i tend to thinks so

[@zxcvb_bvcxz]

AWOONIGAN is amazing.

[@R.A.Meenan]

Right!? I laughed out loud at that.

[@jusjos1970]

The stickers portion really gives more understanding

[@GreyTheFloydianSergal]

I was so ready to argue this video... but I can't. You've hit the nail on the head absolutely, even here in the UK

[@wolfgangiceclaw]

I never realized your point that a many furries like odd and unloved cars and the more I think about it to more I see it. I myself love American malaise era cars and cars that normal people would think have no reason to be preserved or restored. The typical aspirational super car, hyper car, ultra luxury car or other "Look at me, look at how much money I have" car does not draw my interests. I see them and I feel the same as a normal person sees a 3 year old Camry. On the other hand if I see a car the was seen by most people as disposable being well cared for and loved like a 1986 Chevy Cavalier, 94 Saturn SL1, 96 Ford Taurus wagon, Dodge Neon, a late 80s Corolla or the like, it instantly draws my attention.

[@xdavie3]

Saturn, hell yeah!

[@jamesgizasson]

With you 100%! Some of my favorites are the first gen Sable wagon (love that light bar!) or the 2nd gen faux wood Voyager. Anytime I go out with my friends, they jab me and point at the oldest ugliest car in the parking lot, knowing it'll be my favorite! :3

[@SurlyMontanan]

I am going to make my son watch this so he can learn to write thesis sentences more effectively. He's 12 and it will probably open up odd doors for him.

[@BigBroccoli_]

I’m not a furry but anybody who expresses a love for cars in any way is a friend to me

[@SavingTheUndesireables]

This is extremely true, ive always wanted to save unloved cars. Hell thats the reason i picked up my Continental and also have such a fascination with 80s turbo boxes, and the endless malase of massive american 70s cars

[@fsfs555]

I'm not a furry, but they're usually good people and I can appreciate the escapism that a fursona provides. As someone who also prefers friend-shaped cars to hyper-aggressive ragemobiles, I'd rather hang out at the average furry car meet than a lot of the regular cars-and-coffee types.

[@ceremyjlarkson9475]

it brings me great happiness to see mr regular covering this, something about FCC just, tickles an itch. So many goofy, odd, weird vehicles. I stumbled into a furry car meet in pittsburgh and there were some seriously cool cars there, and the people were pretty nice too

[@MaleficRacing]

I get a real kick out of people loving cars that aren’t regarded as enthusiast cars. It always seemed like if someone was “into cars”, it meant classics, hot rods, sports cars, etc. But of course a person can be into cars and just want something they, and possibly only they, find cool. Really gets me questioning my bias for liking what I like, and whether I am just following the crowd.

[@edu7979]

@@MaleficRacing1971 VISTA CRUISER!!!!!!!!!!

[@chrometape]

if this video taught me anything it's that i am essentially a furry minus the furry bit

[@Trendyflute]

As a long-time furry and car nerd, I don't agree with everything in this, but there's a lot of good points and it's really well packaged as a starting point to discuss! Probably the most focus ever put on this topic.

[@Vincent_Hayes]

I really appreciate how you captured a huge good proportion of the overall furry fandom and not just fursuiters in this video as well when talking about the culture in association with the fandom, because there's such a stigma out there that you need a fursuit to join the fandom now due to it being what gets highlighted in mainstream media. Need more people that feel comfortable in the furry fandom that don't necessarily own or feel the need to own a fursuit. Give me more carheads!

[@GlitchCrunch]

There was a con this past weekend (WPAFW), and there were so many unique vehicles like a Model T (Which RCR did a review with) and a Morgan 3 Wheeler. I would much rather go to a furry car meetup as someone who knows nothing about cars then to go to a professional car show where the goal is to show off your knowledge of said cars. A Furry car meetup is like going to a potluck. Everybody brings in something that they love, you know its not going to be the absolute best, but you know its made with love and you can see the love and care each one had.

[@wheniztheend]

I used to have an aversion to Furries due to the internet conditioning me to hate then for some reason, but they seem to be humble car owners, and I can always appreciate someone who is humble about their car.

[@LexYeen]

I strongly encourage you to analyze the _why_ behind your aversion to the furry fandom, because hating something "for some reason" isn't exactly a good reason. After all, since our fandom has a higher proportion of LGBTQIA+ people than the global population in general does, a lot of anti-furry sentiment is just thinly-disguised homophobia or transphobia.

[@wheniztheend]

@@LexYeen Oh, I've never genuinely hated Furries. And I've been trying to understand Furries with an open mind. I still don't understand the appeal (fully). But yeah, no hate from me. (Just some parts of the Internet were telling me I was supposed to hate them for some reason, which I never understood the why behind that either). Or actually, I do know why certain parts of the Internet hate on Furries, it's because of the homophobia/ just edgy little kids that hate on anyone being different.

[@mrbillybobable]

​@wheniztheend don't feel bad about struggling to understand the appeal. It's just one of those things that some people have a natural affinity towards, even if they can't really explain why. It's just like any other passion/preference. Someone who isn't passionate about sports may intellectually understand and appreciate all the reasons sports fans give about why they like sports. But they'll never truly understand that passion on a deep personal level themselves, no matter how hard they legitimately try. And there's nothing wrong with that. There's an organization called furscience that has a book which provides a more readable summary of all their psychological research on furries. There's a free download of it somewhere, otherwise the paperback version is just the cost of printing.

[@chipflavoredtoes6412]

​@LexYeen No it's because yall are weird af in general, have an overall lack of cleanliness, and think flipping the bird at Chic-fil-a signs as activism

[@90AMason]

My first run in with this kind of thing is when I sold a ford 302 engine to a guy with a nicely done up OBS F-150 in 2014 and he turned out to be a huge brony. I don't know if they're still around but the overlap between bronies and furries seemed rather big back then and he really caught me off guard compared to the other people that I usually encounter in the old ford truck subset of car culture

[@MikaMizell]

I'm a little bit of an oddity in that my car and fursuit are of similar price. $1K for both not inclyding repair/maintenence costs, taxes etc on the car. I feel the unloved part of this especially. My favorite car is the Pontiac Aztek. In Tan. The same tan that's used on my fursuit. Which I made (with some help and a premade headbase) myself. My car is an imperfect form of that car. It's got cosmetic issues. I had to do a lot of legal work to get it in my name. And on top of all of that, it's a rare model. It's a base model with no factory options, but with AWD. I love my Aztek immensely, and I would never trade it for the world. I don't care that it's "ugly". It's friend shaped to me. My car has his own fursona, ears, nose/whiskers and tail. I'm one of the sort who form deep bonds with their cars. And I fully expect him to be the last car I ever own.

[@vekomaboomerang4094]

About two days ago, I was looking at videos about Street Racing and Race Wars, when I came across the Furry Car Culture video. This is amazing and I think that it's pretty cool to see Furries are becoming a part of the Tuner scene. Not everybody has to own a Muscle car or a car that's flashy looking. You can own a car from the 80's/90's and still make it look just as good as a car from the 2010's. Regardless of what people might think and say, there will always be a new generation of Furry Car Culture ever year and the community will continue to grow.

[@JolteonRacer]

Wowww my artwork comes up twice in this video :D

[@kaiyotee2475]

:0 You got any timestamps? I'm interested.

[@JolteonRacer]

@@kaiyotee2475 I made a mistake. It's just the one time. hehe. Its at 5:49, Jay's red firetruck :)

[@kaiyotee2475]

@@JolteonRacer cool! Great art

[@JolteonRacer]

@@kaiyotee2475 Thank you so much!!

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

@@JolteonRacer Excellent work

[@juvnal]

Ive been watching RCR since I was 11 and I could’ve never imagined this. Now im 21 and a furry and it all is just kinda surreal

[@WithCarePlz]

I’m just here to watch the typical wannabe hypermasculine car guys be horrified by furry culture.

[@502patate]

they find it incomprehensible that anyone would want their car to be friendly and inviting

[@x_aquatix_x]

furry "culture".

[@zalcan3620]

​@x_aquatix_x here is btw, whining in many comments

[@WithCarePlz]

@@502patate they find it incomprehensible that anyone as a person would be friendly and inviting

[@WithCarePlz]

@@x_aquatix_x why are you so insecure that you can’t fathom other people having a culture different from yours? I’m not a furry, I’m a regular straight dude- and I say at least they have some joy in their lives. More than you, clearly as they aren’t trying to offend people in a comment section 😂

[@FuzzyCollieDoggo]

One of these years you should come check out the car show we put on at Furpoc in Oct in CT. Loving the content!

[@themadscientest]

When you realize how being a rejected autistic kid worked into why you loved the Mini Cooper and other small round compact cars. Thanks I didn't need the psychological analysis but it tracks.

[@sc149]

Furry car culture is "a contingent form of affordable and friendly self expression" (contingent on their imagined animal persona and finances), this is opposed to non furry car culture is "a primary form of self expression or a way of actualising a desired self image or an idealised tool". "Traditional" car culture is non contingent in that it often puts the vehicle ahead of the persons actuality; see, getting a loan for the car you want, need or that will "change your life".

[@falsehero2001]

A video about furries that doesn’t make me question humanity? I never thought I’d feel this way. Is this what is called “hope” and “optimism”?

[@G59LexTheDeer]

Furry car culture is hyundai velosters. Went to a con. There was a meet. Like... 15 velosters, a kei van, a base impreza, and a stagea.

[@bionyx6368]

I drive a 1994 Mustang, and yeah, it’s definitely the most “friendly” looking Mustang imo

[@patrickmcneilly4293]

It's just car culture but with more colors and goofier people.

[@haaxxx9]

I don't see any problem with that, as long as no one is getting hurt in the process.

[@blueneonpaw6611]

It’s having a 1979 Plymouth Horizon you can’t put furry decals on because it’s at many classic car shows.

[@quuxummephitida1219]

Shockingly, Jay The Gryphon provides less than 50% of the fodder of this video This is not a complaint; Jay's got a spectacular fleet, but the other furries' collections need love too

[@dnotive]

I would go further and suggest that it's not even cars that are "friend shaped" and more about the owner placing their own enjoyment of the car over the validation of strangers. Like, when you do a really nice collectible car you can reasonably surmise ahead of time that strangers are going to admire it when it's done, and some people desire that kind of validation for their efforts... whether it's collecting trophies at car shows or just endlessly "one-upping" strangers in the instagram comment section. Furry car culture places almost no value on how outsiders perceive the car, whether they're friend-shaped or not. I have a Trans Am because I grew up wanting one and because *I* think they're cool. While it's nice when strangers have nice things to say about it, the only thing that has ever mattered is whether or not *I'm* enjoying the car. I think that might be the bigger sub-cultural attitude that pervades furry car stuff.

[@evanrhildreth]

Fandoms are formed by people who are passionate about a subject. They are people who are *capable* of feeling passionate for a subject, and tend to feel passionate about *all* the things they enjoy, like art, cars, even cooking! Therefore it makes sense that furries - who feel passionate about anthropomorphic animals, and therefore capable of feeling passionate, would also feel passionate about other things in their lives like art or cars.

[@LexPlaysGaming]

Found out I’m a member of furry car culture without knowing it lol. Didn’t realize my 2 main interests are actually a thing that can go together :D

[@Xerkaw]

I feel the outlier is you can enjoy both genre's without them being linked. The people I've known in the fandom, it is just an interest of cars, in a normalcy sense. But I guess this more of a sub genre-genre where the sona is intertwined.

[@dBsdecibels]

That's more like me. I wrote a similar reply.

[@lessefrost]

Yep. We're just as weird as all the other gear heads. Just a little fuzzy

[@ovaload0019]

furries r cool ass ppl

[@DrakeleyDrusky]

It hurts pretty bad that I couldn’t make Furrydelphia and the car show. I work to be part of both, and yet as a result have less time for both. Right account this time.

[@brianpower5868]

It's been fun to watch you write about the overall furry community that I've been involved with for decades and put words to the feel of the group.

[@Pringlulz]

Probably seen other comments to this effect, but the reason he can articulate this so well is that Mr. Regular has also been involved for decades. He used to be active in the 2000s, distanced himself when RCR took off, and I guess now he's gotten comfortable again.

[@Vincent_Hayes]

@@Pringlulz I'd say the furry fandom itself has changed drastically. It used to be almost only a culture of nerds, now nerds are just primarily who attend cons with more types of social groups showing up and even more social groups existing in the fandom that don't necessarily attend cons as a thing.

[@runningpastoldhouses]

As a car furry I am the opposite, I like aggressive threatening cars that would make you shit your pants, loud and scary

[@injustifiiable]

This is probably one of the greatest pivots of a KZbinr ever. Learning so much. One of my good friends is at least furry-adjacent and he drives a Soul...it kinda tracks.

[@andrewmazzarini2742]

If you asked me to define "Furry Car Culture", I'd draw a Venn diagram, with one circle labeled "Furry culture" and the other labeled "Car culture" and "Furry car culture" would be at the end of an arrow pointing to the intersection. Now, if I had to DEFINE either, I'd struggle because I'm not a furry and I'm only really in a specific niche of car culture as a whole, but for a layman, I feel like it'd convey what you'd need to know to start research

[@foxyloon]

Yipyip, definitely a car furry~ Lots of excellent observations made here, and I can definitely confirm a number of them in my case. I'm very much a DIY shade-tree mechanic by necessity, as all the cars I've owned were purchased under $1000 or given to me, badly neglected/abused, and subsequently rehab'd by my own two paws. For example, I bought a '96 Lexus ES300 Coach edition that turned out to be a "buy here, pay here" used lot car for several years before I bought it. It was badly neglected due to each owner driving it for about a year, then it being reposessed over and over, so no maintenance was ever done for the poor thing... Literally bought an entire parts car and meticulously restored it to a usable state again, all because I loved the car like someone would fall in love with a stray cat. Just recently, I rebuilt the transmission in a 2010 Hyundai Accent bought off of FB for $600, all because I legit felt sorry for the car. It upset me seeing how apathetic the previous owner was with caring for it, just treating it like a beater until they grenaded the transmission and decided to punt the car on FB. Yet another car that's "friend shaped". X3 I mean, it even has that adorable mechanical telephone bell chime for the "door ajar" sound. How can you *not* love that? Might also explain why I prefer the '99-'02 GM-T800 trucks over the "post facelift" ones. The older ones have a more friendly appearance to the front grille/headlights, while the newer ones always looked "angry" and "tough" to me. Plus, I have a '00 RCSB Silverado, so the proportions sorta give it a "cute and small" look when compared to other trucks of the same lineup. I love that truck so much~ ^w^

[@Khajiit_Kitty]

Finally a video made just for us car furs

[@DoritoDoritio]

you have some good cars Lukia

[@starscreamsghost148]

I can't wait for the day I'll come to a furcon in a 1959 cadillac in fursuit! Just need the full fursuit... And a 1959 cadillac. And under the hood will be a beautiful painting of krystal!

[@kaiyotee2475]

Just need a fursuit and a 1992 Toyota pickup

[@starscreamsghost148]

​@kaiyotee2475 gotta be honest a talking lebaron would also do the trick

[@xdavie3]

Good taste

[@starscreamsghost148]

@kaiyotee2475 a talking lebaron would also do the trick for me

[@starscreamsghost148]

@kaiyotee2475 a talking lebaron would also do the trick for me

[@Emppu_T.]

A friend of a rare obscure car regardless of their amount of fur, we can be friends with.

[@tal_os8148]

Man you making the point of furries loving unloved cars really hits home. I drive a 2001 Honda insight with a manual and I see all my coworkers think it's kinda neat but still scoff at it, they all like old muscle cars or big fancy fast aggresive cars, and I just never got excited about them. Sure they look cool but I LOVE the mundane cars with quirky features that I could go on about, digital gauge clusters and working crt touchscreens??? I feel like I get way more looks and attention from driving my goofy slow little insight that is pretty much all diy repaired vs all the people with their fancy corvettes and professionally detailed exteriors and interiors, it just doesn't hit the same

[@forceawakens4449]

Same, i go "hey look at that nice car" for traditionally nice cars, but feel a magnetic attraction to something ive never seen before, no matter how common looking it might be

[@JonGallon]

Honest question: Mr Regular, what is your furcarsona?

[@pbbbht]

Your statement about the difference between a good thesis and a bad thesis at the beginning of this video is something that every English Class student should have repeated at them starting in like 5th grade 🎉 that statement alone would massively elevate the quality of student writing

[@OJ_36]

Now admittedly, I'm not a furry, but I've always been a bit different and I'm only getting more so with some of the realizations I've made and learned about myself recently. I've always loved weird, cheap, unknown cars for some time now. I wonder if me feeling like a bit of a fluke myself is the reason I love cars that aren't loved, known, or respected.

[@ebbamb]

3 minutes in and I already entirely agree. My favorite car is the Buick Reatta, which is very friend shaped and forgotten. It also has the same touchscreen as the Buick you mentioned (though you made an error, it’s the Riviera, not the Regal).

[@R.A.Meenan]

This made me so happy. You hit literally everything I love - furries, cars, and proper thesis writing. XD Welcome to the fandom, Mr. Regular. Hope to see you at a furry con in the future! We can talk obscure English books from our Master thesis days. ;)

[@Max_Gaming2077]

What’s disturbing is that probably half the furries shown in the video has commissioned rule 34 art of their fursona

[@velezdragon3574]

I’m a furry and own a roadmaster ❤

[@AngPur]

I knew another furry who had a roadmaster wagon. It was the "let's all 7 of us go to the diner" car

[@Duuhvis]

Furries are some of the nicest people I’ve ever met. I know a couple of them. One is a car guy actually

[@jasonlin9805]

I’ve found a new hobby

[@budderz908]

For a very brief second i thought you were talking about cars with fur seats

[@randomdude5678]

Friend-shaped and unloved. As a 3rd gen Prius owner, this hits home the most.

[@jeshirekitenkatt1212]

oh yea, there's a HUGE group of furries who are, for whatever reason, REALLY into cars. i think it's the same reason there are so many furries into fantasy and roleplaying, or costuming, or IT etc... furry culture intersects with many different aspects of nerd and hobby culture. buuuut... i would argue that there's also a big difference in vibes and attitudes between your average car meet and a room full of furries, right? i think people jump to the idea that things that are heavily furry themed (or mlp-themed, or sci fi themed, etc) are so for no good reason, but I think the reality is that these kind of events allow people to engage with hobbies they might not otherwise or where they might otherwise have to tone themselves down, as the general community or perceived vibe feels unwelcoming to them for whatever reasons. additionally something something statistics on the numbers of queer and neurodiverse furries compared to the general population. makes it insane to me that 'alt furries' and the like ever existed at all.

[@zzoinks]

It can certainly be a safe space, at a furry event. So it's pretty much like a car meet like you said but you're less likely to experience discrimination and discomfort interacting with a possible or actual bigot. And there are surely exceptions to the rule but it's probably more of a safe-space atmosphere for people interested in cars. Like how the Street Animals brand and community advertises itself to be. I'm just guessing because I've never gone to one. Plus there are plenty of good people at a regular car meet, it's just the fear of discrimination that I imagine can come to marginalized attendees like lgbtq+. Bigots probably won't come to a furry event. Probably why a lot of furry stickers have them holding an LGBT flag or similar and personas have LGBT colors. Kinda to say I'm okay with who I am and if you're absolutely not okay with it then this sticker might keep you away.

[@zzoinks]

I feel like sometimes the alt furs are like people who grew up in that discriminatory household, religion, or community and may be part of such discriminated against group. And admitting they are is tough so they try to hide from it by being publicly against it. Just assumptions but "Spector da wolf" shed some insight on how he used to hang out with the alt people

[@ErynnDBuck]

Fuckin terrofying is when you move back to your hometown after a decade, and people still recognize you, but you don't recognize anybody.

[@SpectBluewolf]

it's just car culture but instead of people who isn't a furry it's furry

[@theautomaticfiend]

If I had a nickel for each time a KZbinr I watch made a random video about furries, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice considering I consume precisely 0 furry content.

[@musewolfman]

Honestly, if I were to spend $10k on a fursuit, I'd probably be able to say that it cost more than all of my registered cars, combined. Not counting parts cars, I've owned 10 cars. Only 2 of them have cost more than $1k. Edit: I did the math, and including parts cars and failed projects, Im not even up to $7,500. Over 17 cars. (Well 16.5, as one of the parts cars was split with a friend.)

[@forceawakens4449]

now thats car culture right there. Unfortunately it hard to find something in decent condition for under 3k now

[@TriiipleTake]

gr86 always gave off furry vibes ngl

[@Flargenyargen]

I'm not really in the fandom but have so many friends who are, I'm easily considered furry-adjacent. The community has welcomed me with open arms several times and I adore their enthusiasm for what they do, and their enthusiasm for cars. I was at WPAFW with the Acty last year and it was an amazing weekend. Beautiful stuff.

[@rachel_sj]

It’s gonna be so easy for me to get my Masters in Anthropology thanks to this video 😅

[@houseoft.j.1485]

That was wonderful and I'm all about it. Im litterally going to a furry car show/camping convention next weekend. I'm finally getting my first fursuit, and my boyfriend and I are both taking our classic cars his is a 1985 alfa romeo milano verde mine is a 1981 corvette. Its AMAZING how much attention his car gets.

[@Randomii666]

As someone who drives a very cheap and fairly unloved Subaru (BP5), which somewhat runs most of the time (except now), this checks out

[@lessefrost]

Wow damn this is the last kind of video I'd expect lol. You explained something I noticed about sticker culture amongst furries but just couldn't quite put to words. I got a 2013 Honda Civic SI and I love my lil beep beep! Replacing my wife's rotors on her 2019 Impreza while watching this!

[@Demache92]

I never thought about being drawn to unusual, but ordinary vehicles. But thats me to the letter. My 2012 Outback is the 2.5 6MT. Which is such an unusual option, even many subaru folks didnt know the 4th gen had a six speed as an option. Its a blast to drive too. Not fast, but sending it in a wagon fun! My 1992 F150 has the 300 six paired to a heavy duty T18 4 speed. By that era, if you bothered to get a manual, the 5 speed was more common, so someone had to special order the T18. I dont see many obs trucks like that.

[@zzoinks]

Why would somebody order the t18? Is it more durable?

[@Demache92]

@zzoinks Yes, by a long shot. It's a 60s era cast iron transmission. The Mazda 5 speed was better for speed and fuel economy, but it didn't tolerate heavy work like the T18 could. It had a real low 1st and direct drive 4th. It was also used in the heavier duty F series trucks so it could handle anything you threw at an F150.

[@Drew700boo]

I used to have a friend who would let me commission whatever from, last year I commissioned them doing a Carwash photo with 2 of my OCs, and it was something really neat to me and still is, they did a great job on it honestly. Great video summed up pretty well honestly

[@Fishdogfish]

that "AWWOONIGAN" trans am is just perfection

[@VestedUTuber]

Furry Car Culture equals Furry Culture plus Car Culture minus Some of the toxicity of Car Culture due to the majority of furries being pretty chill.

[@vincentn7264]

There should be a furry train meet too

[@Threetails]

Furry and classic car owner here! '92 Park Avenue Ultra daily driver and a '56 Citroën 2CV!

[@forceawakens4449]

Is the suspension as smooth as advertised? Everyone says its one of the smoothest car rides ever

[@Acoustic_Theory]

So the significance of this to ‘normies’ is furry car culture arises out of having a crafted lifestyle, through crafting a character, crafting a suit, and crafting a car that is appropriate to their personality even if they could have something different, a conscious rejection of the mainstream but for the most part a welcoming attitude to those interested in crossing over to check out the entertainment generally on offer. Many furries are entertainers, creating a kind of performance art for entertaining mostly each other - childish adults, but NOT children (unless it is an event specifically for children) - and the hobby is shared by getting into character. That imagination shows up in a furry’s other hobbies as well.

[@MrStark-up6fi]

I definitely want to see a Furry Aviation Culture

[@chevymontmarlo]

To be fair sometimes id rather be a car or a anthropomorphic Coy-Wolf than a Human sometimes also i like the fact my two odd hobbies (though one normal around here) are hands to hands also I've got a pretty unloved (in car culture and actually unloved mechanically by previous people) Ford Explorer Truck

[@MaleficRacing]

Great video Brian, keep shining the light where people don’t want to look.

[@maxtechtech7478]

It was awesome speaking with you during the panel and had lots of laughs during the panel. Hopefully see you again soon!