What are some clues your vehicle is way too common?

Driving a vehicle that has a common, similar style to another of the same make affords you many used parts at the wrecking yard and at the parts store.

Your vehicle is white and it’s an SUV.

I purposely buy a common, average, blend in car. My husband loves cars, we have some fancy ones because of it. This last time we shopped for a car for me he took me to Mercedes, wanted to consider a Porsche, BMW, and I wound up with my Honda Accord. If I drive into a not so great area I don’t feel like I am a magnet for thieves. I like it that way. It also gets very nice gas mileage and takes regular unleaded.

I don’t care at all how common my car is. What I care about is reliability, good gas mileage and lower frequency of repair track record, and safety record.

If my car is very very common because it’s a really good vehicle with the qualities listed above and many people buy it with good reason, then I’m quite happy.

For me, my identity is not wrapped up in the car I drive ( the way it seems to be with some men) so common is just fine by me. A car serves the practical purpose, for me, of getting me from point A to point B as safely and cost effectively as possible as often as possible without any glitches. Period.

You drive a silver Honda CRV.

Because there is probably close to 1.2 billion of them on the roads worldwide.

Driving on the freeway last Saturday, I was surrounded by a half dozen similar vintage versions of my car, a 1999 Honda CRV. Two silvers, a black, a green, a white, and another red like mine.

That doesn’t even count the newer versions of the CRV.

You are in a parking lot and you try unlocking your car and it’s not yours is a sure sign your car is way too common.

When driving a beautiful female co-worker, a friend, home after work—soon after your divorce—tells you that “you’ll never get a date into this heap.”

Someone else on this thread brings up the same make and model.

(Luckily, I don’t but many friends do.)

@kritiper Driving a vehicle that has a common, similar style to another of the same make affords you many used parts at the wrecking yard and at the parts store.
It also makes it very attractive to the chop shops. About 7–8 years ago in this area there was a certain model of Honda that was being stolen almost at the rate of three a week. When you have dozens of silver Honda whatevers, the hoodlums know they can unload the parts quick because someone else has that make and model and needs something and doesn’t want to be bent over and buggered by the dealer or raped and rooked by the body shop. With a vehicle less common stealing it and striping it, and leaving the metal carcass on some abandoned road is too much work, because they will not have any takers for the parts they purloined

I once had someone try to get into my car because it looked exactly the same as theirs…

@IheartMypuppy I once had someone try to get into my car because it looked exactly the same as theirs…_
Yeah, but there are vehicles out there that are the same make and color without being everywhere, they just by coincidence happen to be in the same area. Have you ever been in your vehicle, following a vehicle of the same make, while overtaking another vehicle the same as the both of you while three cars ahead of that vehicle you are overtaking there is another one just like are all driving (see that with Priuses quite frequently), would you call that rather too common?

@Hypocrisy_Central or like when you notice a, let us say, blue vw bug and suddenly you are seeing them everywhere. Once your senses take note of a particular make, model, color they are easier to pick out of the masses.

^ As much as I look on the roadway I don’t see many (next to none) 1957 Corvette roadsters with the convertible hardtop, Lamborghini of any make or year, or F-360 Super Duty pickups….either they are blending sooooo much I can’t see them right in front of me, or they are at least not very common on the road ~~~

@Hypocrisy_Central, Have you ever been in your vehicle, following a vehicle of the same make, while overtaking another vehicle the same as the both of you while three cars ahead of that vehicle you are overtaking there is another one just like are all driving (see that with Priuses quite frequently), would you call that rather too common?
Actually, I have seen that happen, I wasn’t in one of those cars though…

@rojo or like when you notice a, let us say, blue vw bug and suddenly you are seeing them everywhere. Once your senses take note of a particular make, model, color they are easier to pick out of the masses.
That has happened too