Why do my co-workers make fun of my Escort?

Many people laughed at me b/c I have an alarm on my car. And this was before I did all the mods. to it. Then when they sat in it and heard my system...they shut the hell up!! My car is 14 years old, has 149500 miles and runs like a dream. She´s paid for, looks good, sounds good and gets me where I want to go with no time wasted at the GAS STATION! If they keep laughing at you, just look at them and say, "At least I didn´t sell out to a Honda or other rice cooker." "My shits original and runs like a badass banchee. " You guys with the GT Scorts can say that, I can´t since my auto isn´t that quick an d with all that sounds equipment...well...I´ll race you in a dB Drag instead. LOL Shorty, don´t let anybody talk you down about your Scort, thats why we at F.E.O.A are brothers and sisters, we stick together when others shun us.
SCORT POWER!!

If your refering to "rice cooker" its another name for a import car that has all the aftermarket plastic surgery. Anybody can buy a Honda, Mitsubishi(?), Nissan or Toyota and buy "off the shelf help". They follow a cliche´ that is getting worn down too much and is starting to look very stupid. We drive American made cars w/ a little Mazda touch , we don´t sell out to the import losers. Every Scort owner is a very lucky he or she to have one in the driveway. We are fuel and tire burners...not rice burners!!

A Rice Rocket on the other hand refers to a Japanese motorcycle, i.e. a Yamaha R1 or Honda CBR.

You guys want to hear about owning a car that everyone laughs at before I owned the Pimpscort, I owned a 1977 AMC Matador that was painted camoflage. It had an AMC 360 engine, dual glasspack exhaust, a decent cam, holley 750 carb, and an Edelbrock Performer intake manifold. That thing would haul major balls, eventhough it weight 5000 lbs. And the lope while it was ideling was sooo sweet. But until anyone sat in it and got shoved back in their seat, I caough MAJOR hell from anybody who look at it. But the real awsome thing about it was that they are hella rare, and they were actually built by AMC so they would have a car they could race in NASCAR, so it handeled rather well for a car its size. But until I told people that, it was just a piece of crap beat up ass old 70´s relic that was related to the Gremlin. I loved that car, I still love it, I sold it to my brother in law when he turned 16, so I´m still able to keep my eye on it. We have since painted it primer grey, but it still draws weird looks and awkward stares.

You know what i say to everyone who says somthing about my scort:"f**k You!" I think that car is just as powerful as any jap scrap piece of crap. But the one good thing about people making fun of it is that it makes the scort the perfect sleeper car.if no one wants to take you serious with it tell them to put their money where there mouth is , and then when you take em you get theri money and you get them to shut up about it. I get crap about my car all the time. it´s 11 yearas old with 120,000 on it and it still runs good. yeah it´s got some dents here and there but the paint is still in good condition. And when i tell them "yeah but it still turns heads", I get at what middle school. I don´t care they are all jealous they can´t own a scort.

My co-workers are merciless wrt my Tracer, and for that matter, so am I.

It´s a love-hate relationship. The car seems to love me, and I hate it . Seriously, though, it´s treated me reasonably well for a 10yo with 110K on it. The engine´s anemic, but the suspension is great, and it works nicely for the daily commute on 101. The next step for me is getting it painted (it´s suffering from Ford-Baked-Hood-Syndrome. i.e. the paint looks like it has a bad case of dandruff). Then I want to hit JC Whitney or similar to do the power door lock/keyless entry upgrades (the only feature I miss when driving the Tracer instead of my wife´s CR/V).

Let your co-workers nag ya--that´s what they´re there for. So what. If the car gets the job done, who cares? No use getting depressed, defensive, or pissed off about it.