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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.

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* [[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."
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Comic Book Guy]] had a bumper sticker which said "My other car is [[Star Wars|the Millenium Falcon]]" given to him by a [[Harrison Ford]] lookalike, until it was removed by a car wash attendant.
* [[Kingdom of Loathing|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]]'':
{{quote|"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 Goodness|Tank]]
** My Other Car is a [[Babylon 5|Starfury]]
** My Other Car is in the shop
** My Other Car is an [[Star Wars|X-Wing]]
** My Other Car is Also Stolen
** My Other Car is a [[Cool Plane|Stealth Bomber]]
** My Other Vehicle is in Orbit
** My Other Car is a [[Flying Broomstick|Broom]]
** My Other Car was won in the divorce *teardrop*
** My Other Car is a [[Doctor Who|TARDIS]]
** My Other Car is a Bicycle
** My Other Car is a [[Final Fantasy|Chocobo]]
** My Other Bumper Sticker is Funny
** My Other Ride Is [[Your Mom]]
** My Other Ride is a [[Supernatural (TV series)|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 [[Transformers|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."
* "[[Every Car Is a Pinto|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 [http://secretoptionf.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/swordcc-tf2.gif?w=500&h=663 one of KC Green's comics].
* My other CAR is a CDR.<ref>The joke is that in the Lisp programming language, CAR and CDR are two iconic list operations.</ref>
* ''[[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'';
{{quote|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. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He was in the van at the time]]. It is  {{spoiler|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 [[Left 4 Dead|has alerted the horde]].
** It probably disturbed The Witch too, didn't it? DIDN'T IT?!?!?!?!?!
* My other car is the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA-01]]
* Made for a tank-crazy [[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|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 [[Flintstones|runs on feet.]]
* My other car is a [[Halo|Warthog]].
* A [[Dragon (magazine)|Dragonmirth]] cartoon has "[http://www.reocities.com/nevyn_74/mythsteed.JPG My other steed]{{Dead link}}..." version.
* My other car is a [[Warhammer 40,000|Bane]][[Tank Goodness|blade]].
* [[George Carlin]] suggested a sticker reading, "My other car is a [[The Alleged Car|piece of shit]] too.
* ''[[Mummies Alive]]'' - "My Other Car is a Chariot"

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