私が知る男は、みんな車が好き!

English Translation

All of the men that I know like cars!

The original Japanese sentence is not incorrect at all. But the whole sentence is highly colloquial, so I prefer

私が知る男はみんな、車好き!(pron. くるまき)

車が好き in the original sentence means “the men like cars”. This is a typical SVO structure.

車好き is not in SVO, but 車好き is a compound noun. We have similar structures like 車好き:

メアリーはきれい好きだ。(きれい好き = a person who likes cleanness and tidiness.)

トムはおしゃべり好きだ。(おしゃべり好き = a person who likes chit-chat or gossips)

We often use this ○○好き structure when describing someone’s characteristics.

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