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I have, however, gathered that in Germany people who drive Opel Mantas are subjected to ridicule of the kind US drivers of "rice rockets" are subjected to on the Performance BB.
But the car model - and the name of the driver - changes from country to country. In the UK in the 80's a "Manta-Fahrer" would be called Trevor (Trev) and drive a Ford Capri. In my native Denmark he's called Brian and drives an 80's BMW 320 with massive tyres ...
Fascinating stuff, isn't it? I think I might do a sociolinguistic paper on that subject!
BTW Where did you drive your Manta - it doesn't sound very US to me ...
Regards,
Caspar
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