I have a '22 Kona N-Line, so not a super fast car by any means, with an exhaust, intake, and some boost control bits. On my way to Walmart, which is on this long, straight road, perfect for a little rolling race, and a little white Mini S pulls up alongside me with a young guy in the driver’s seat. I can tell he’s also got an exhaust, he downshifts and I know what’s about to happen. We’re going probably 45, I downshift into 3rd, he does the countdown, and I beat him pretty handily. He ends up also going into Walmart, and I park, and as I’m getting out of the car, this guy must’ve been looking for me and pulls into the spot next to me. Tells me he didn’t think the non-N Konas could go like that, I tell him that I didn’t either and I’m just as surprised as he is (I’ve never really opened it up like that before). He tells me he heard my exhaust, which prompted the race, and asked what else I’ve done to it, I tell him, and we end up sitting in the Walmart parking lot talking about future mods, gripes with our cars, etc. It made me feel kinda good, because this kinda thing never happened to me before, and I’ve never gotten a compliment on my little econobox Kona.

Guy has same truck as mine but 2 years newer. Says he likes my mudflaps better than his and his wife said she like my truck better than his newer one haha

Friend of mine liked the back seat of my ‘94 626. Said it was the most comfy back seat he’d ever sat on.

marry her

“I love your Audi! I want one so bad!”

I drive a debadged 2022 forte GT…

I passed by some middle schooler riding his bicycle and the next thing I hear is the boy scream “IT’S A MIATA!”

That just made my day.

Unexpected insult? I had my 996 Turbo lined up for an event and a father & son were wandering around checking out the cars. The ~8 year old son looked at mine and said “That car looks slow”. oof.

Okay, fair enough, the four cars to my right were a GT-R, GT2RS, McLaren 720S, and a Dodge Viper. The three cars to my left were all GT3RS. so yea, I suppose it was the slow one in that row.

I get ’ is that a Buick?’ and then they are surprised that they even made a Buick like that

Never had a compliment for my car sadly they always just make fun of me for owning a skoda. At a local VW meet noone even looked at my car wich really bummed me out espacially since they mostly only had lightly lowered polos

I was walking to my car when suddenly i hear “Nice muscle car!”

I drive a 2022 chrysler 300 with a V6. I relayed this to a coworker after clocking out and seeing my white on black 300 in the parking garage. He did not care and still complimented it. We got to talking in the parking garage for about an hour talking about old school muscle cars and how he had one back in the 80’s. Also saddened the V8 is getting replaced. All in all a wholesome and informative experience!

“I like your little car, it’s neat” “Thanks”

Any compliment I receive is unexpected, because I literally drive a rental car.

I mean, it’s a Mustang convertible, so one of the nicer rental cars, alright, but still, it isn’t special, and I know it. But I still love the compliments it receives anyway. :-)

Dropped my friend off at her home in the Honda s2000. Her mom said “Nice Porsche” I just replied thanks and never mentioned it was a Honda.

I’ve had people call my car cute.

Idk if this counts as an unexpected compliment or whatever but one of the ones I liked the most was this woman saying it looks like the batmobile, which… I mean I really loved hearing since I love batman. I was driving my black C4 vette so yeah I can totally understand with that long ass hood lol

Ive actually gotten a ton of compliments from women about the car, which makes me reading all the comments of people saying “women dont care about cars” to be kinda… not what im experiencing personally. But if I were to believe the internet nobody likes the C4 either but… again, that’s not my experience with it lol.