What's The Most Ridiculous Car Myth?

Car owners, like pseudo Mayan archeologists, sometimes tend to exaggerate fact. This leads to confusing, hysteria, and eventually insanely untrue myths about their vehicles that some confuse with the truth. What's the most ridiculous of these car myths?

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