After years of being a car guy, I’ve owned many different types of cars, including muscle cars, hot rods, trucks, normal plain-jane cars, SUVs, classics, and even a motorcycle or two. For small cars in particular, I’ve owned many air-cooled Volkswagens, a Nissan Sentra, Mazda Protege, a Chevrolet S-10, an EG Honda Civic and now a Scion xB.
I realized a few months ago that the small cars I’ve had have always been more enjoyable and easier to live with than my other cars. Sure, the exhaust note of my Chevelle is much more appealing to the core of car guys than your average small-engined car; but I can’t drive that car everyday. Matter of fact, I’m selling it. I’ve had more fun building up my Civic in the past six months and driving it every day than I’ve had in the Chevelle in five years. Instead of telling my buddies how fast I went at the dragstrip, I was telling them how many miles per gallon I got out of my last tank of gas.
It’s just more fun to drive fast in a slow car than it is drive slow in a fast car. Plus, you can turn and stop better.
As it turns out, I’m not the only person who knows this. Once I started digging around, I found that small car drivers (of both slow and fast cars) really love their cars. Love is actually an understatement. The gearheads that own small cars are almost a cult of their own.
They’re dedicated to their cars.
It’s a cult.
I decided to try to convey this sense of community to people who don’t yet know about it. I decided to start a Cult of the Small Car.
