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Old 05-20-2014, 09:32 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cowmeat View Post
Two things automatically drive me away from considering a car:

#1 cold air intake - cold air intake equals kid-owned . . .everything done to the car will be half-assed by some 16 year old ricer wannabee and his buddies, from the lowering to the "tuning"

#2 "se habla espanol" in the ad - all the wiring will have been done with speaker wire, and there won't be an OEM part on the car
Wow...stereotype much? There are a couple things wrong with this: first, you jump to conclusions based on (very) limited information when the conclusions do not necessarily follow (i.e. it has a cold air intake, so the lowering job must have been of dubious quality) and, second, you assume that personal experience can be extrapolated to apply to new scenarios (i.e. you encountered a situation in the past where a Spanish-speaker did a poor wiring job in a car, therefore every Spanish-speaker must do the same). Both are logical fallacies.
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