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What ingredients does it take to become a true petrolhead? Certainly more than just a cool car. A petrolhead is driven like a fanatic who never gets enough of the street buzz. And what else do you need? No idea. But our Intense Matt Petrolhead color certainly helps with that.

The freedom of driving your car with no particular destination in mind. A car you service and modified yourself with your own hands. A car you take to shows or track days to meet and share stories with others with the petrolhead affliction. This is not just my passion, it has been at the centre of who I am.

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The online world has brought about great opportunities for petrolheads, lowering the bar for entry into commerce. YouTubers sell branded mechandice (clothes, stickers, accessories). The proliferation of online content has resulted in a much higher awareness of how different cultures around the world modify their cars, or how they were offered as standard by manufacturers - one example of this is the JDM obsession that has been popular for many years now.

The tax laws in Ireland are quite expensive, and you pay an annual motor tax for every car you drive on top of the hefty tax on fuel. But there's a silver lining for petrolheads. When a car turns 30 years old, the motor tax gets cheap - VERY cheap. MX5's are not 30 years old yet, but I wanted to find the oldest one I could and keep it. Once it turns 'classic', it will be cheap to tax for many years.

Recently, a thread on the road.cc forum about possible correlations between high performance cars and dangerous driving ignited quite a debate. It also led to some readers sharing their passion, or previous passion, for cars too. Step forward AJ, otherwise known as kil0ran on the forum and a self-confessed "reformed petrolhead", who shares his story about switching from car obsessive, to a cyclist with a modest Volvo estate...

Stuff like BMW's "Ultimate Driving Machine" slogan mean that they end up making these absurd cars like the M140i (355bhp in a hatchback FFS) to pick up all the petrolheads who must go one louder than everyone else. I loved Hondas back in the day and had a Mk1 Integra Type R which I reckon at most, even on a track, I could drive at 75% of its capabilities.

Are there parallels to be drawn between car enthusiasts and cyclists? When it comes to spending vast amounts of cash, racing and incessant tinkering, the two definitely appear to cross over with a certain type of hobbyist. AJ takes us through his various stages of petrolhead...

This read true and I've been a petrolhead for years. Our family transport is a battered old Focus though and it does the job. I've done various track days and driven a few single seat racers, a Ferrari, an Aston Martin Vantage (hated it) and several Porsche 911s over the years, from 70s models to the turbo 930 and the current 992. A long time ago I realised that motorbikes offered performance levels of a supercar but on a budget and I've had a lot, including a couple of superbikes (my old Ducati and my current Suzuki).

A very powerful and honest take on cycling that should be shared across all platforms. Especially to petrolhead forums whose members sometimes troll cycling related Facebook pages such as this and cycling UK.

One thing I don't get from car culture is the hatred of cyclists. I was a cyclist from 10-18, a driver from 18-40 something, and now I do both. Even when I was a full-on petrolhead I don't remember ranting about cyclists not paying road tax or riding two abreast, and I certainly never intentionally close-passed or punishment passed a cyclist. And I was by no means a law-abiding driver. 2351a5e196