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.

Examples of My Other Car Is an X include:

• 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:

"My other car is also a Porsche"

• 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.^[1]
• 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;

Some Guy: Nice car.
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 the Space Shuttle.
  • 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 LiveJournal 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 ^{[dead link]} ..." 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"

1. ↑ The joke is that in the Lisp programming language, CAR and CDR are two iconic list operations.