Do you know what your neighbours cars look like?!

[TheChosenTwo]

Just a random conversation with dh and he asked me if their cars were still there. I honestly have no idea what cars they are, I know one of them is white but couldn’t tell you what make it was. And I don’t even know the colour of the other car.
Sometimes they park on their drive, other times they park on the street. I clearly don’t pay attention!!
Just got me wondering if everyone knows what cars their neighbours drive.

@AmberGer

I know all the cars on my road (about 50) and their numberplates, and the surrounding roads too. I memorise numberplates, I know all my friends, colleagues, family etc. but I'm ND and that's one of my super powers.

I don't know numberplates off-by-heart, but I do know it when it's in front of me. so if im out and about driving and see a white audi, then I will recognise the number plate as belonging to Mr Jones my NDN. I know most of the school run cars (small village school so not many) and in our cul-de-sac of 9 houses.

For years I had no clue that this wasn't usual, that most people don't pay attention to such trivial matters.

Yes, and I'd recognise them when out and about. Normally recognise the number plate first and then look up to see the neighbour. No idea about makes/models.

Both my immediate neighbours have distinctive cars with personalised plates, so very easy to remember. One has a very...erm... distinctive animal print wrap! I'd recognise the rest of the ones on my street but couldn't tell you the reg numbers.

@SockQueen well I’d like to think I’d recognise their car if it was wrapped in animal print
But just a standard white car that looks like every other white car? Not so much!

I'm in a flat and could probably say her upstairs has a 21-plate black car (hmm, how can she afford that then?) while DP can tell you the make and model (and probably the vin plate number) of all 30 cars that park out front and which flat they belong to.

Yes and I'm 'one of them' who recognises number plates.
I can be driving down the Rd and think 'oh there goes uncle Bob or there goes Melissa from next door.
I would know my ndn both cars and the lady opposite that's it due to the layout of the road and not seeing others.

Yes, because the 4 houses in our little cul de sac are in a sort of square formation so I can see everyone's car. If you walk past someone's car every day I don't understand how you can fail to notice what it is TBH.

Yes but only because next door have the same model, colour and year car as us. More than once I've tried unsuccessfully to get in their boot in bad light 🤣

I should add obv we don't have private driveways 🤣

I know the colours of one side of my neighbour. I have no clue about another, though I'm sure I 've seen it. Cars are not my thing.

No. Vaguely know the colours/ sizes. I recognise the personalised number plates of the twat 3 doors up.

DH does though. I’m not interested in cars/ car makes.

I live on a street of terraced houses with unrestricted parking on the street although many people have done the arsehole thing of turning their front gardens into drives. I recognise about 3 cars in my immediate vicinity but my immediate vicinity probably includes 20 households.

although many people have done the arsehole thing of turning their front gardens into drives.

Isn't it better to have off road parking?

Yes, every last car. I do live in quite a small gated street though.

Most people don’t have cars where I live - inner city terraced housing- but I would recognise next door’s car and the car two doors down - both are distinctive electric models.

I know the cars that belong to the two or three houses either side of us as we all park in the street but not necessarily outside our houses if not possible. But there are so many other cars in the street I have no idea whose they are.

Yes I know immediate neighbours cars and their number plates not because I’m trying to but because I have a memory recall that scares people.

@RampantIvy

although many people have done the arsehole thing of turning their front gardens into drives.

Isn't it better to have off road parking?

For the car owner usually yes but not necessarily everyone else! If they turn their garden into a drive for 1 car then they have not saved any space on the road as the access for the drive will take up just as much room as the car on the road. Plus people don’t always do it right. Someone on my local page was complaining that people keep blocking their drive. Except the ‘drive’ was just a paved over garden with no dropped curb, so people are well within their rights to park in front of it but it was leading to a lot of upset. Also, tarmacking over a garden can increase the risk of flooding as the water can’t drain as easily.

Yes. Next door have a swanky new electric car that dh covets and asked our neighbour to give him a demo of everything. Opposite have several cars all with personalised plates.

Two have distinctive old cars, so I do recognise them. The others I don’t really notice that much besides 2 doors down have a grey one, couple of the other side of the road have 2 white ones.

I’m not interested in cars though.

I'm car-blind, too. Al the modern cars - designed in a wind tunnel - look the same to me. I can recognise a mini, a Roller, a Beetle and a Campervan; think that's about it.
We all park on our drives so I haven't a clue about the neighbours' cars except for the one which is often parked on the road. It's white, a saloon, with four wheels. Couldn't tell you any more than that.

Yes but's a shared car park and everyone tends to park in the same space even though they're not officially allocated to a particular property.

No. Cars are not something I register, and parking on our street is awful anyway so people's cars are hardly ever parked in the same place apart from the few that have converted their front garden to a drive. I couldn't tell you what car either next door neighbour has, and they do have drives -I see them every day but I don't register them at all, even the colour. The only one I knew was a neighbour further down who had the same car as us, but they have got a new one now (they said to DH "now we won't have the worst car on the street any more!" and then were horrified, as obviously that meant we now did, but we know we do so we don't mind! )

Yes I know every single car in the street and who owns them. From a security point of view, it's important in case anyone dodgy is coming in. Much easier to spot.

hmm, some.

The more distinctive ones yes, but only for the house eachside of us and the two opposite.
Don't know make, but the size/shape and colour.