Convertibles literally ARE chick magnets!

[Krassus]

Bloody hell... am I the only guy on Earth that can't pull tail with a topless sportscar?! :cuss: I had a freaking Dodge Viper roadster for 5+ years (bought it when I got into college)... sold it last fall, and got a new Lotus Elise two months ago and between the two, I've got almost no interest from the ladies. I could count the number of times a hot, young item convo'd me about my cars on one hand... no kidding. I mean, I've dropped major coin on cars because... well... I love cars and driving... so pu$$y not really the goal here, but jeez, I keep hearing you guys swearing by the things to get the attention of the ladies, but WTF? Seriously, Do I have to wait until I can afford the damn Pagani Zonda F Roadster? Sorry... didn't mean to rant. Just figured if a Mustang convertible would work, my choice in hardware would certinly work as well.

I have no idea man... i get complicated on my 350Z all the time, and the GT Convertible too. It happened 2-3 times today alone. A Viper... my god. Perhaps it was a little too over the top for people? You know, kind of like girls would find it easy to talk to a 200lb weightlifter, but would be too intimidated by someone who's 250lb? That or you live in a rich part of town where you'd need a real exotic to turn heads.

 

[Krassus]

Some of you guys need to post more advice about finances, like seriously guys, screw the advice about girls enough on here for that, I want finance advice. You driving a boxster makes me jelous

*ahemm* That's why i started WSA. Linky below.

 

[typical]

Ahhh already got an account there just havnt had time to look at it properly yet, off there now

Edit : ok krass you have way too much info on that site man geez

 

[Krassus]

You want advaice about getting a sweet ride... okay:

1. Love cars... no, really, be a true enthusiast. Enough to blow roughly half your disposable income on a car payment.

2. Don't buy much of anything else... go frugal on most things (clothes, music, food, magazines, pretty much anything else), and spend most of your dough on the car and the insurance.

3. Buy a cooler car used than a less cool new one. My logic: A used Viper at ~$40k instead of a top tier new Mustang SVT or whatever for ~$40k... or a used M3 instead of a new 3-series in the ~$20k range... or whatever your budget/taste in equipment is.

4. Get a beater (like my $4000 2000 Honda Civic GX) for a daily driver so you don't rack up the miles and service expences on your toy. Do your own work where you can as specialty car work is often asinine. I did all the work on the Viper myself (including a pain-in-the-a$$ thermostat rebuild).

5. ...and for God freakin' sakes don't chome anything!!! :cuss: Okay, this isn't budget orineted advice, but there's too much talk of chrome this, chrome that. Ack. Like one automotive journalist said "In this day and age, chrome on automobiles is pretty much the knee-high, white socks of the car world." I concur wholeheartedly.

1. I'd recommend just forcing yourself to make more money instead, but whatever works...
2. This is always a good thing. Know what you REALLY care about and don't waste your money on pointless sh1t; i.e. you don't NEED a 60" LCD, a normal 50" HD will do just fine for 1/4 of the price.
3. Precisely what i did with the 350. There is NO difference between a car that's 2 weeks old and a car that's 2 years old.
4. Hell no! I'll be damned if i waste all that money on a great car and spend most of my time driving some piece of junk. I drive my baby even in the winter! Blizzak tires all the way
5. Hahah! Consider that analogy stolen!

 

[American_Psycho]

Went inside to grab my very frugal evening snack - a 2-dollar burrito, and came out to see a MILF standing like half a foot away from my car and staring at me. She flat-out asked me if she can get in the car with me and "go somewhere." "Where?" "Anywhere." I kid you not. Alright, i know that nice cars make getting laid easy, but this is ridiculous

Here's a hint dude, that "MILF" was a prostitute. Think about it...

 

[Krassus]

Honestly, no... i know a hooker when i see one. Christ, she had her shopping bags with her. That and the part of town i was in... ha! Quiet neighborhood, upper middle class old white people. The nearest hooker must have been 10 miles away

 

[blinkwatt]

1. I'd recommend just forcing yourself to make more money instead, but whatever works...
2. This is always a good thing. Know what you REALLY care about and don't waste your money on pointless sh1t; i.e. you don't NEED a 60" LCD, a normal 50" HD will do just fine for 1/4 of the price.
3. Precisely what i did with the 350. There is NO difference between a car that's 2 weeks old and a car that's 2 years old.

I love #2. Krauss you know your stuff. Thats how I think. I bought a 42' plasma,not huge but enough for people to say "Wow you have a set up." Too me,anything over 50' is just too big IMO.

If you are young you can start to learn how to manage money smartly by looking at all purschases this way if its over $50~"Where is this item going to be in 6 months,a year so on"
This is why I havent bought a iPod,there is a new one twice a year it seems like. I have not bought a video game system in 6 years,since I was 12. There is always something newer and better.
The only thing I do not apply my rule to is clothes and my car,and hopefully in a year or two my house. Your clothes are part of you,always feel comfortable in them,NO MATTER WHAT THE COST! Many people try to argue with me but I dont care I'm right on this topic,buy whatever car you want that you can afford that you like. You drive your car to school,work and while on errands,which is a big part of your day. Would you rather feel comfortable and safe in your car of choice or drive some beater that smells and you regret buying? Never settle for less then what you want,where there is a will there is a way!
By the way if you guys want to start a "money management" forum/thread somewhere let me know I will be more then happy to help out.

 

[Scorched]

hmm

"Nice Car" - Personally I don't like materialistic women... Sure, having a nice car is a status symbol, but more than anything... I think it is just another conversation starter. Once the conversation is started it is 80% personality... Please keep in mind we've been brain washed by the people who market cars. How you ask? Look at most car magazines... Nice car + hot chick...

 

[blinkwatt]

having a nice car is a status symbol

Not true at all. I have not taken my car to show it off once,and I mean it. There is nothing that can replace cruising with the top down blasting music around the clock.

 

[Krassus]

"Nice Car" - Personally I don't like materialistic women... Sure, having a nice car is a status symbol, but more than anything... I think it is just another conversation starter. Once the conversation is started it is 80% personality... Please keep in mind we've been brain washed by the people who market cars. How you ask? Look at most car magazines... Nice car + hot chick...

The funniest thing is that even though they brainwashed us men, they did the same to women, so this works both ways

 

[S1NN3R]

Sure, having a nice car is a status symbol,

Or it's for personal enjoyment. I didn't buy my RX-7 because girls like it, or because kids in theri Civics nut themselves everytime I drive by. I bought it to drive stupid fast, and to get the personal enjoyment out of it. I bought it because I live about 10 minutes away from a faily nice, 10 mile twisty turny canyon road. That it gets the ladies hot is just a lovely side-effect.

Besides, my RX only has one seat, no matter how impressed they are, I'm still not taking them home in it...

 

[Archaxis]

I have no idea man... i get complicated on my 350Z all the time, and the GT Convertible too. It happened 2-3 times today alone. A Viper... my god. Perhaps it was a little too over the top for people? You know, kind of like girls would find it easy to talk to a 200lb weightlifter, but would be too intimidated by someone who's 250lb? That or you live in a rich part of town where you'd need a real exotic to turn heads.

Hmmm... maybe it was a tad over the top, but that's my personality... I was going to get an Ariel Atom 300 when I bought the Lotus, but the wait was pretty long an the Elise was a friggen' steal, $20k less than what the original owner paid new, with 7700 mi. on the odo. Its a interim car for now, and maybe I'll skip directly to the real deal next time around : www.caparo-t1.com Now that's over the top!

I live in Ahwatukee, a snooty suburb of Phoenix, but there really isn't an overaboundence of nice cars around. Most yuppie fvcks are content with their overpriced Suburbans with Caddy and Lincoln logos on them. Besides, I took the car a lot of places in all sorts of parts of town... well, short of the absolute ghetto and got lots of attention from kids and middle aged men who gravitated to it like crazy. :yawn:

 

[Archaxis]

1. I'd recommend just forcing yourself to make more money instead, but whatever works...

I wish... my field was absolutely flooded when I got out of college (I'm degreed as a mechanical/product designer) and I've had no luck in securing a job. Right now, I draw up engineered pool plans for high end residential and commerical pools... and before that I was an designer/estimator/engineer for a communications cabling infrastructure intaller.

2. This is always a good thing. Know what you REALLY care about and don't waste your money on pointless sh1t; i.e. you don't NEED a 60" LCD, a normal 50" HD will do just fine for 1/4 of the price.

Yeah, I've bought an entire home theater system w/ a 70" Sony projection screen off a stock broaker who was moving into a different house and didn't have room for it... for $1500.

3. Precisely what i did with the 350. There is NO difference between a car that's 2 weeks old and a car that's 2 years old.

Yup, just as long as it hasn't been abused, you're usualy in for good experence. I have all my purchaces inspected by the respective dealership before I sign my life away.

4. Hell no! I'll be damned if i waste all that money on a great car and spend most of my time driving some piece of junk. I drive my baby even in the winter! Blizzak tires all the way

Well, I drive 46 miles round trip to work every day (230 mi/wk) in irratating stop-and-go Phoenix traffic... and the jacking around with the clutch alone isn't really worth it... nor is it a fun drive. Besides, my Civic is CNG which is $2.11/gal versus the $3.20/gal that high test is right now. If I'm going out after I get home, I simply switch cars.

5. Hahah! Consider that analogy stolen!

 

[ValleyDJing]

Don't buy much of anything else... go frugal on most things (clothes, music, food, magazines, pretty much anything else), and spend most of your dough on the car and the insurance.

Terrible idea. no wonder you can't pull females. You have a Viper but a grungy ass wardrobe?:nono:

Buy a cooler car used than a less cool new one. My logic: A used Viper at ~$40k instead of a top tier new Mustang SVT or whatever for ~$40k... or a used M3 instead of a new 3-series in the ~$20k range... or whatever your budget/taste in equipment is.

Viper's are nice, M3's are straight up boring and ugly. I can't stand Lotuses either. I heard somewhere that mustangs were originally researched and designed to appease the female eye or some damn thing. Just so happens that the guys liked em too. I don't know, works for me!

Get a beater (like my $4000 2000 Honda Civic GX) for a daily driver so you don't rack up the miles and service expences on your toy. Do your own work where you can as specialty car work is often asinine. I did all the work on the Viper myself (including a pain-in-the-a$$ thermostat rebuild).

How can you expect females to want to talk about your car when they never even knew you had it? I drive my Mustang every single day! Sure you rack up the miles...when it gets old and broken, buy a new one!

and for God freakin' sakes don't chome anything!!! :cuss: Okay, this isn't budget orineted advice, but there's too much talk of chrome this, chrome that. Ack. Like one automotive journalist said "In this day and age, chrome on automobiles is pretty much the knee-high, white socks of the car world." I concur wholeheartedly.

You're a idiot...straight up. Where'd you hear this from? Car and Driver? 80 year old man? God damn thats the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

 

[DarthJuan]

By the way if you guys want to start a "money management" forum/thread somewhere let me know I will be more then happy to help out.

I like the idea of a money management forum.

 

[reallyfreakinlost]

I think I'm going to start saving for that Viper

 

[blinkwatt]

I think I'm going to start saving for that Viper

Stay away from 98 and earlier,they KILLED clutches. Dodge designed the original cluthes too small and the engine shredded through them.
I was looking into Vipers but there are soo many killing points to me on them,the interoir is absolute TRASH. My step dad has a Durango, it was more classy on the interoir ,no joke. You have to be a good/trained driver to drive one daily,a slight touch of the throttle in a turn and you kick the back end loose. The car is American after all=no resell value,sorry but its true,look at Corvettes. Don't get me wrong ITS FAST and has seductive curves but those are not easy overlooked issues. None-the-less I will still buy a 01 Metallic Grey w/ White Strips GTS in the next few years.

 

[S1NN3R]

The car is American after all=no resell value,sorry but its true

That's the beauty of it. If you look, you can find early models (92-94 I want to say), for low-mid 20s. Sure it's got junk quality, it's hard to drive without passing out from the heat, the windows clip in and there are no exterior door handles, and parts aren't exactly cheap. But you're still getting a FAST car, and you're still getting an image, that while true or dedicated enthusiasts can see through, will still impress the average Jane Blow on the street. It's hard to find anything that will put such a dopey grin on your face for less money. That being said, I'm still not a Viper fan, to me it's the typical American thinking of "find the biggest sledgehammer you can find to drive in the smallest thumbtack you can find, then be impressed with yourself when it only takes one swing". But I still can't deny that it's kind of a bargain.

'Course, my favorite thing about Vipers is the look on the 8 liter driver's face when I tell him he just got smoked by a 1.3 liter.

 

[blinkwatt]

But I still can't deny that it's kind of a bargain.

Oh without a doubt. I know that Vipers are declining fast in value but yet I still lust over them as they were my child hood dream car.

 

[CitizenOfTheWorld84]

I drive a Ferrari and a Mercedes.

Neither are convertibles but the Ferrari especially is a chick magnet.

I have lived through your story many times karuss and I have learnt to ignore women that approach me when they see my car.

How can you afford a Mustang at your age? What do you do for work?

I am very intrested in purchasing a mint condition old Mustang.