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In German humour, a Manta joke ((ドイツ語:Mantawitz)) is a joke cycle about the ''Mantafahrer'' ("Manta rider"), the male driver of an Opel Manta, who is dull, lower class, macho, infatuated with his car and his blonde hairdresser girlfriend, and who is an aggressive driver.〔 The joke pokes fun at a stereotype of a middle-classer, a proud owner of a second-tier muscle car, typified by the Opel Manta.〔''Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity'', 1999, ISBN 1571812113, (pp.172-173 )〕 Mantas were targeting the buyers who yearned for a sports car but could not afford a status car such as a BMW or Mercedes. Proud Manta owners often decorated them with chrome, G-T stripes, muscle tyre, high-beam, etc., to mimic the exclusiveness of race cars.〔''That was the Wild East: Film Culture, Unification, and the "new" Germany'', (p. 167 )〕〔''Metonymy in Language and Thought'', 1999, ISBN 9027223564, (p. 325 )〕〔 The jokes poke fun at his vanity, dullness, etc. *''What was left after a fatal Manta accident? - A golden chain and a mourning hair dresser.''〔 *''What is the shortest Manta joke ever? - Ein Manta steht vor der Uni (A Manta parked in front of the university).''〔 *''What does a Manta driver say to after crashing into a tree? – Komisch hab doch gehupt! ("What the heck, I did honk!")''〔''Adorno-Ampel und Schwebebahnelefant: 222 kleine Verkehrsanekdoten zu allem, was uns bewegt'', 2010, ISBN 3833495847, (p. 7 )〕 The popularity of such jokes spawned two successful movies (' and ', the latter starring Til Schweiger as the ''Mantafahrer'').〔 ==See also== *Russian jokes: New Russians 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manta joke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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