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minus-squarethisorthatorwhatever@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoMaybe 1% of 1% of people would actual play with their cars and tune them. Even then, most wouldn’t make the cars into polluting machines.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 months agoI think it’d be significantly more than that, but that’s probably bias from the kind of people I tend to be around. I’m thinking maybe as much as 5%. That said however, we do have the assholes who like to “roll coal”.
Maybe 1% of 1% of people would actual play with their cars and tune them. Even then, most wouldn’t make the cars into polluting machines.
I think it’d be significantly more than that, but that’s probably bias from the kind of people I tend to be around. I’m thinking maybe as much as 5%.
That said however, we do have the assholes who like to “roll coal”.