WE NEVER REALLY FIT IN

The story behind the Automotive Outsiders Community and a way of understanding cars that goes far beyond the vehicles themselves.

August 9, 2026

My name is Álvaro Muñoz, I am 37 years old, and my relationship with the automotive world began long before social media, algorithms, or even the possibility of imagining that one day I would end up working and collaborating in this sector existed. It started at home, and above all, thanks to my father. A true car lover who managed to instill that passion in me from a young age.

Looking back now, I don't think I could have been luckier. Thanks to him, I had the opportunity to grow up seeing, hearing, and riding in cars that then simply seemed spectacular to me, and that today are authentic icons of an era: Porsche 996 Carrera, Koenigsegg CCX, Aston Martin Vanquish, Vantage, and DB9, Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes-Benz SL 350, Bentley Continental GT, MINI Cooper S, Mazda RX-8, BMW M3 E92... and I could go on much longer, but I don't want to bore you with an endless list.

Because the list is really the least important thing. What matters is what it left in me. When you are little, you don't understand resale values, emissions, regulations, or technical specifications. You understand sensations. You remember how an engine sounded, the smell of an interior, a certain shape, how it felt to be sitting inside, or that moment when you get out and can't help but turn around to look at the car one more time.

Over the years, I understood that my passion was not just about driving or owning a certain car. I was interested in knowing what was behind it. Who designed it, why someone decided to build it that way, what was happening in the world when it appeared, who drove it, what it competed against, or why certain models managed to define a generation while others simply disappeared.

Little by little, the automobile stopped being just a machine and became for me a door to design, engineering, competition, photography, fashion, music, travel, and, above all, people.

In short, I began to understand cars as something that for me has always been much more important than a power figure: Culture.

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"The automobile ceased to be just a machine and became a gateway to design, competition, photography, fashion, music, travel, and, above all, people. In short: culture."

Over the last few years, I've been fortunate enough to delve much deeper into the world of motoring thanks to my profile as a creator, collaborations with different brands, and my professional relationship with Fran Valleand Motor.es. And the more I've gotten to know this sector from the inside, the stronger a feeling I've had for a while has become: we are experiencing a huge change in how we relate to cars.

Europe is undergoing a transformation marked by regulations, political decisions, electrification, and new commercial strategies that are changing cars, but also the way brands talk to us about them. While we constantly discuss emissions, labels, range, screens, power, or the next launch, I often feel that we are putting precisely what made many of us fall in love with this world on the back burner.

In Spain, I notice it especially. More and more people are becoming interested in cars, more content, more meetups, more track days, and more people wanting to be part of this culture. And that's fantastic. But at the same time, I feel that we often stay on the surface. We consume a lot about cars, but we research very little about what exists behind them.

And I don't think all the responsibility lies with the people. The brands themselves are partly to blame for the way they have chosen to communicate for years, and social media has accustomed us to consume a story in fifteen seconds before swiping to the next.

And that's precisely where I've never quite fit in.

I'm passionate about everything that isn't mainstream, what isn't imposed on me, and what goes beyond doing a review and repeating a spec sheet. I want to know what's behind the person driving, get to know small workshops, projects built in garages, impossible custom builds, circuits, races, characters, and cars with incredible stories behind them. I'm interested in understanding why certain generations of Porsche were once scorned and years later everyone wants one. I want to discover what a track day is like outside of Spain and, above all, how in other parts of the world, cars coexist with fashion, art, music, and lifestyle in a completely natural way.

The more I travel, the more international content I consume, and the more people I meet in this world, the clearer it becomes to me that there are thousands of stories that we are barely telling here.

And from that need, AOC. Automotive Outsiders Community is born.

I don't want AOC. to be just another Instagram account, another media outlet that tells you what car to buy, or a brand whose sole objective is to sell you a t-shirt. Obviously, I want it to grow, I want to create products, travel, host events, and make the project economically sustainable. We're also here to make money, of course.But if that were the only goal, I probably would have chosen something much simpler than trying to build a community around car culture.

AOC. is born to try to bring together those who feel motoring as a passion and a culture, not a trend. Those who are curious to discover new things, want to look beyond what appears daily in their algorithm, and don't quite feel identified with the current landscape.

And that's precisely why Automotive Outsiders Community MAGAZINEis also born. This will be the place where I can share everything I'm learning, the content I discover, the stories I find, and the places I go to show you how the world of motoring is lived from other points of view.

If all this represents you, I would love for you to be part of what we are building. You can follow @aoc.culture, join me on @kokemunozzzand my YouTube channel @KOKEMUNOZZZ986, subscribe to our newsletter, join our Telegram communityor support us through AOC merch.

But, above all that, stay if you don't quite fit in either.

Because maybe you're an Outsider too.

Welcome to Automotive Outsiders Community.

Álvaro Muñoz

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Dos personas junto a un Porsche clásico plateado con el capó y el maletero abiertos en un aparcamiento.

Porsche de carreras con decoración Sachs expuesto bajo una estructura de madera en un evento AIR/WATER

KOKE MUÑOZ Y VALENTINO BALBONI en interior frente a un LAMBORGHINI DIABLO naranja colocado inclinado en la pared.

KOKEMUNOZZZ sentado dentro de un PORSCHE 964 verde con la puerta abierta en EL F.A.T. ICE RACE FIRMADO POR WALTER ROHL

Koke Muñoz con camiseta AOC Hands blanca sentado en un Porsche Boxster

@KOKEMUNOZZZ — OUTSIDER'S TAKE

AOC.was born for those who feel the automobile as a passion and a culture, not as a trend. For those who are still curious, seek what happens outside the spotlight, and don't need an algorithm to tell them what car, what story, or what trend they should like.

If you don't quite fit in either, you're probably in the right place.