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"2017 Stigmata? No, that's a 2016. Notice the bulb size in the taillight array. In between the switch from 5th Gen to 6th they changed the LED bulb size from 3.3mm to 3.35, so now theres only 58 lights in the upper track."

The shrimp colour vision thingy turned out to not actually be true https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.14578

Even "sedan" is pushing it. Car, big car, unnecessarily big car, dumpster fire.

I can identify make and model but NEVER the year.

But my mostly-deaf husband can identify motorcycles BY SOUND (or lack thereof).

I can recognize Chargers, Explorers, and Crown Vics pretty easily.

Reminds me of XKCD 915

https://xkcd.com/915/

Half of them say what make and model they are on the back. That's what those plastic words glued to them are. 🤷‍♂️

I’m pretty good at that and I don’t know why. I guess I just passively pay a lot of attention to car makes/models for some reason.

My partner is like this with birds xD

me: "Oh look, a starling!"

him: "Yep, it's a bird."

(though to be fair, he's getting better at it :P)

Imagine being envious of someone with basic memorization skills.

I ran into someone and I said "How's the Corolla Cross?" and she looked at me shocked and said "No one knows what car that is?! How do you know?" I was like "Headlights? Body shape? Too small to be a Rav4, too high to be a Corolla."

Basically, I would've written autistic guide books on local ferns if I'd been born a couple decades earlier, someone had just already written them. Same with birding. Ain't found a new bird in a while.

My dad can look up and tell a 767 from an a330 passing over at 37,000ft. I work as a commercial pilot and tell the difference when ones parked at the terminal still. It must be some spicy brain shit

I feel this way but about people identifying dogs

All it required for me was to be in the market for a new car. Then I started paying more attention to what make and model every car on the road was and it's stuck with me ever since.

Isn't this the case for any hobby or niche field?

I pity y'all, the roads are so beautiful to me.

I live to go walking with my friend who knows a lot about botany. Where I see 'field' or 'shoulder of road' she sees all different kind of flowers and showers me with their Latin names.

In cities in like that but with history and architecture. It's such a treat to hear people with a differently tuned set of goggles and a passion about a particular topic.

they plaster the car name and marketing info all over the cars.

spend enough time in traffic and you start recognizing them.

I'm perfectly fine identifying cars that have proper names, but the mid-luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, etc.) eschew names for alphanumeric gibberish. I can't be arsed to remember all their numbering schemes. And Teslas largely look the same to me unless they look distinctly like a dumpster. I can't tell an S from a 3, or a Y from an X.

I learned to do this when I was younger by just having really good eyes and reading the back labels of cats sincr they usually have their names on them

My friends will be like YO DID YOU SEE THAT HONKAI G600 and lose their shit and I look over and it's just a regular looking sedan

Whoa!

Spritz

Wipe

Is that a Supra?!

My (who I subsequently learnt very autistic) friend could identify the state of origin of number plates of cars based on their text colour. Some states had number plates written in slightly different shades of blue so this wasn’t that easy.

For them to remember the make and model was easy.