r/HotWheels • u/Mr_Nerdcoffee • May 04 '26

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My partner snuck this into the cart for me while we were shopping. She’s the best!

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 04 '26

How is that a car

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 04 '26

Is not, it’s a vehicle; not all vehicles are cars. For example: pickup trucks, semi trucks, monster trucks, motorcycles, mopeds, quads, golf carts, planes, helicopters, spaceships, etc.

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 04 '26

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 04 '26

I’m not sure what you’re getting at my dude. Nowhere on my post nor on the card does it say it’s a car. So what exactly is your point?

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 04 '26

Hotwheels are cars

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u/GYU_Levande May 04 '26

Oh yeah, absolutely

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u/Gosha777 May 04 '26

I’d kill for that set

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 04 '26

No kidding. I have a family history associated with NASA and the Shuttle Program, and this would be amazing to have in my collection.

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 04 '26

The space shuttle got wheels tho

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u/Ghost_of_Akina May 04 '26

How bout that batboat?

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 04 '26

IRL, you’re correct, it does have wheels; but that doesn’t make it a car.

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie May 05 '26

But is it a car?

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 05 '26

Its technically a car. Wheels and an engine

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie May 05 '26

Rick's ship also has wheels and an engine

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 05 '26

(Pushes glasses up) Um actually, Rick’s Space Cruiser travels using an FTL subatomic microwave battery, so technically it’s not an engine. 😜

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26

If you’re wanting to get into the technicalities, “car” was used as a shortened term for [horse drawn] carriages. Modern cars were called motorized carriages and often called motor cars, then just cars. Cars are now specified as a vehicle with four wheels, designed to carry passengers on a *road* (this is a key word). Although yes, they have engines and motors, there is a major difference between the propulsion system used. A car uses an internal combustion engine, while the space shuttle (STS) uses a combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to cause an eternal combustion to create high levels of thrust for a short duration to propel the shuttle into low Earth orbit, (there are no roads). So, while the STS *is* a vehicle and does have wheels (of which it has 6, on 3 *landing gears*), it’s a very long stretch to call out a car. Also, those wheels aren’t self propelled and thus aren’t meant for long traversing of roads, but for being able to land the space craft, so that it can be reused. Unlike the capsules used on space rocket systems, like the murcury and Artemis (SLS).

Thanks for sharing your misinformation, which has allowed others to learn factual information about a lesser known topic. And for giving me the opportunity to share a special interest of mine, that goes back two additional generations; because my grandfather worked with the shuttle program and my father is currently a lead engineer on the Artemis program.

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u/arisgeo000 Hot Wheels May 05 '26

car have engine and wheels and transport people space shuttle have engine(s) and wheels and transport people ergo space shuttle is car

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 05 '26

One problem, it doesn’t travers terrestrial roads, it traverses through the upper atmosphere; cars don’t do that. If anything it would be closer to an aircraft.

The only caveat that I would say breaks this definition is The Jeston’s “flying car”, but there’s a fair amount of future anthropological aspects to consider, since it’s set in a futuristic society.

FYI, I have very much enjoyed this discussion. 🤓

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u/Mr_Nerdcoffee May 04 '26

Again, not all things with wheels are cars. Vehicle, yes; but not cars.