Car Weenie

Where's IvanIllich when you need him? Dead.

A CarWeenie is someone who thinks the automobile is the only sufficient form of transportation, eschewing all others (especially that dreaded symbol of low socio-economic status, the bus). The bigger the car, the better.

Sometimes it's claimed that being a CarWeenie is a largely American (and Canadian) habit; OTOH, that's just because owning one is cheaper there.

It's probably because of the American obsession with increasingly larger cars. One can't even find a citroen here. . . Besides, I've got a motorcycle I've been working on.

Of course, citreon is French for "lemon", or something like that. Which is kinda like GM trying to sell the Chevy Nova in Mexico ("no va" means "it doesn't go" in SpanishLanguage?).
Citron (lemon) is pronounced si-tr-(on) where on is a single nasal phoneme. Citroen is pronounced si-tro-en which is completely different.

Some CarWeenie's buy bicycles; but invariably also buy a bike rack so they can carry their bicycle around as they drive their car. On rare occasions, this is used to haul the bike a long distance to some mountain trail where the bike will be actually ridden; more often than not, it's to haul the bike a half-mile to the grocery store.