My Other Car Is an X



A Stock Phrase that sometimes appears on T-shirts or bumper stickers. This started around 1980 with stickers and license-plate frames reading, "My Other Car Is a Porsche". The others are takeoffs, directly or indirectly, on that cliche of the times.

""My other car is also a Porsche""
 * Ur Example: "My Other Car is a Porsche."
 * In an early episode of King of the Hill, Bill wears a shirt that says "my other car is a lawnmower."
 * Comic Book Guy had a bumper sticker which said "My other car is the Millenium Falcon" given to him by a Harrison Ford lookalike, until it was removed by a car wash attendant.
 * My other car is made of meat.
 * In The Sandman, the Fashion Thing's broom has a bumper sticker reading, "My other broom is a Porsche."
 * Famously from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

"Some Guy: Nice car.
 * Several variants in Real Life:
 * My Other Car is Also a Piece of Junk
 * My Other Car is a Mercedes
 * My Other Car is a Tank
 * My Other Car is a Starfury
 * My Other Car is in the shop
 * My Other Car is an X-Wing
 * My Other Car is Also Stolen
 * My Other Car is a Stealth Bomber
 * My Other Vehicle is in Orbit
 * My Other Car is a Broom
 * My Other Car was won in the divorce *teardrop*
 * My Other Car is a TARDIS
 * My Other Car is a Bicycle
 * My Other Car is a Chocobo
 * My Other Bumper Sticker is Funny
 * My Other Ride Is Your Mom
 * My Other Ride is a 67 Impala
 * And so on, and so on...
 * Parodied in the Family Guy episode "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar":
 * My Other Penis Is A Vagina
 * My Other Car is a 12 foot transforming robot.
 * There's also "My other car is an [Autobot symbol here]" and there's a Decepticon variant. And sometimes the word is written out.
 * Xkcd: This is my other car.
 * The amusement park on the Moon in Futurama sold bumper stickers reading "My other car is a Porsche On The Moon!"
 * "My other ride is a striped frostsaber."
 * "My Other Car Is a Pinto".
 * In Team Fortress 2's game assets available to players, a bumper sticker can be seen on the front of the Sniper's camper van stating "My other camper is a SWORD VAN!", a reference to one of KC Green's comics.
 * My other CAR is a CDR.
 * Top Gear has had...
 * "My other car is a Porsche. (But unfortunately it's a 924 with flames up the side.)"
 * "This car isn't mine! (I just bought it for a challenge on a popular Sunday night television programme.)"
 * "Honk if you're also involved in an inexplicable race against some canoeists or something."
 * There's a Subaru commercial with a car sporting the bumper sticker "My Other Car is a Bike".
 * Not actually a sticker, but in Batman Begins;

Bruce Wayne/Batman: You should see my other one."


 * One issue of Nintendo Power magazine came with cards featuring the characters from Mario Kart 64, each with a message on their license plate. Mario's said "My other car is a dinosaur".
 * Dave Lavery, who makes rovers for NASA, has you all beat:
 * "My Other Car Is Still On Mars."
 * John Grunsfeld can compete on this, too. He called Car Talk for advice about a cargo van he sometimes drives. He was in the van at the time. It is.
 * Not as spectacular, but still space-related: Some of the people that worked on the New Horizons mission got bumper stickers reading, "My other vehicle is on its way to Pluto."
 * My other car has alerted the horde.
 * It probably disturbed The Witch too, didn't it? DIDN'T IT?!?!?!?!?!
 * My other car is the EVA-01
 * Made for a tank-crazy Rangerphile: "My other car is a Sherman".
 * Parodied in Young Wizards Live Journal icons; specifically, "My other Mac is a Manual" (since many modern wizard's manuals are manifesting as computers similar to Macs).
 * Parodied, again, in Terry Pratchett's Johnny Maxwell Trilogy. The kids are in a graveyard, looking at someone's very showy grave, and Yo-Less comments, more or less, that the dead guy therein should have a sign up that says "My other grave is a porch." The dead guy in question, having died quite a while back, reveals in a conversation with Johnny that he doesn't understand this.
 * My other car runs on feet.
 * My other car is a Warthog.
 * A Dragonmirth cartoon has "My other steed..." version.
 * My other car is a Baneblade.
 * George Carlin suggested a sticker reading, "My other car is a piece of shit too.
 * Mummies Alive - "My Other Car is a Chariot"