Biden responds to The Onion's fake Biden

Vice President Joe Biden wants The Onion to know one thing: He is definitely more a “Corvette guy” than a fan of the Trans Am.

Biden sent a tweet Friday addressed to the satire site and the fake “Joe Biden” currently answering questions in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) chat on reddit. The tweet is signed “-VP” to indicate Biden sent it personally.

Q for @reddit AMA with my @theonion pal: A Trans-Am? Ever look under the hood of a Corvette? #imavetteguy –VP twitter.com/VP/status/2923…

— Office of VP Biden (@VP) January 18, 2013

The Onion this week published a mock-autobiography of Biden titled “The President of Vice” that includes, among other things, The Onion’s fake news story about the vice president washing his 1981 Trans Am shirtless in the White House driveway.

To publicize the new Kindle e-book, The Onion is running a Q&A on the social news site reddit with their version of Biden, who they call “’Diamond’ Joe Biden.”

BREAKING: 'Diamond' Joe Biden Currently Cruising For Chicks On Reddit bit.ly/Wo33hD

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 18, 2013

TThe Onion encouraged reddit users to ask anything about Biden’s Trans Am — but Biden’s question is about a different vehicle altogether.

“Ever look under the hood of a Corvette?” he asked, in the tweet.

The fake Biden responded to the real one in the reddit chat, writing that "some imposter" was spreading false information about his love of the Trans Am.

"I'll tell ya right now, whatever they say nothing can come between me and my Zam," wrote The Onion's Biden.

Updated at 3:42 p.m.

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