How important is the car?

[al77]

Originally posted by Derek Flint
First off, I bought the Corvette for myself, as I did my previous one, an 87 Convertible.
Not to race someone at a stoplight or to impress anyone, especially some chick.

Also, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area,
Marin county to be exact, and Corvettes are considered redneck cars among all the newer BMW M3's and MBZ AMG's around here.
100K cars around here are common.
It all depends on what part of the country you live in.
Around here, a Corvette doesn't get any attention.


Secondly, any car will cost you money and maintanence.
I used to have a 94 BMW 325is, and that car nearly broke me.
Spent thousands on it and it was always in the shop.

The point of the older BMW's (mid-80's 3-seies) is that they are more reliable than just about any other car from that era and in that price range.

These cars are easy to work on, and I do almost all my own work, unlike most newer cars which are a PITA to work on, and you need all kinds of specialty tools.
Parts are easy to find locally and on-line, and can be delivered overnight if needed.
All I need to work on it is some basic tools and a multi-meter.

The bottom line is that if the original poster wants inexpensive, dependable transportation, I would highly recommend a 83-89 3-Series BMW

So you pose as a redneck in a red Corvette? You might as well start selling books of jokes about CA rednecks if it is true.
Thats just drastically different from almost any other part of the country.

I am sure chicks have no idea what BMW M3 is...they see BMW, no rust, looks "cool" you are in! They can't say if it is $100k bmw or $20k bmw. They can smell "coolness" of the car only...

Anyway:
A guy who never had a car will not be able to fix his car with a multimeter. Thats obvious. He'll have to got ot a shop....it is conceptually somehting new that old bmw is cheap and easy to fix. Parts for european cars have alway been expensive, especially for somehting decent like bmw.

By the way, how do you figure out reliability of cars..lets say
83-89 3-Series BMW vs 94 BMW 325is? Is there any guide... website about reliablity?

Your experience, skills, state and $ situation are unique. I am sure the orginal poster of the question is in a very different situation now.

 

[al77]

Originally posted by bullmoose
Very true. The difference is not in the appearance; others. The difference is on *my* end -- I can dance all night in a pair of $400 shoes; they feel like moccasins. My feet don't get tired, & therefore I don't get tired.

By presenting yourself as outside the norm, there's nothing else to compare you to. Supply and demand. . . .

I find it somewhat intersting: to buy $400 shoes to be able to dance all night in a dark club (where no one can even appreciate your shoes even if she wants to...)
...You remind me about the previous poster how calls Corvette a redneck car....

Another thing is if there is nothing to compare with.. you eliminate a reference point for women: they would not be able if you look cool ot not.. if you are in or not... that cause doubts in their obsessed with fashion minds. I am sure you didn't want to cause any doubts....

 

[MindOverMatter]

Wow, this thread screams midlife crisis. If you honestly depend on a car, or construct your game AROUND a car, then you are sad lol.

Your car shouldn't be your opener OR your closer. Your car shouldn't turn some b!tch's head. Your car shouldn't be the reason some broad goes for you over another guy. YOU SHOULD BE THE REASON THESE THINGS HAPPEN.

You don't need a pimp car to pull women. After I graduated from college, I had to sell my car to pay some debts to friends, and I got laid more then I did back when I had a car, to the point where I perfected the bus/train game.

When I used to live in Belgrade (and if you think you know golddiggers, u've never been to Eastern Europe, where every b!tch is trying to get married to a rich guy and wont open her legs for 99.99% of the male population), I hooked up with 9.5+s even though I was driving a beat down Opel Astra. And this was in high profile clubs where every person was flaunting how rich they were and throwing mad money around. Some of those guys had more jewlery then Mr T and Suge Knight combined.

My friend/former frat bro is currently sleeping with this broad whose boyfriend/soon to be fiance is loaded as sh!t and drives a Mercedes Benz SL65 AMG roadster. What does he drive? A 1997 Mazda 626 lol.

If you need a suped up car to feel confidence or feel like you own the club, you seriously need to work on your game lol.

peace!

 

[al77]

Originally posted by MindOverMatter
Wow, this thread screams midlife crisis. If you honestly depend on a car, or construct your game AROUND a car, then you are sad lol.

After I graduated from college, I had to sell my car to pay some debts to friends, and I got laid more then I did back when I had a car, to the point where I perfected the bus/train game.

I guess no one here said that a car would give you chicks by itself.
But it is still an advatnage.

The reason why a good car now does not give men a lot of points is cuz we used to lease it or buy it with a little down payment. That mean any guy can get almost any car...sure chicks knows it.

There are some questions:
1. if you are in town where almost all people have cars and you dont, you think still it will not affect your game?

2. if you are 25 or older... you think chicks 25 and up would not care what car you drive? Get a tiny, rusty honda civic and observe chicks' reaction when they see it...
It seems you me that a) you are relatively young b) relatively good looking c) your cities (here and in Europe) do not require a car at all...

3. If you got a good game (appears you did get it from what you said), you will get more credit and benefit fellow DJs much much more by telling how you do that... instead of bragging about it without some specifics that may help other develop their games.

 

[Slickster]

Originally posted by MindOverMatter
Wow, this thread screams midlife crisis. If you honestly depend on a car, or construct your game AROUND a car, then you are sad lol.

Your car shouldn't be your opener OR your closer. Your car shouldn't turn some b!tch's head. Your car shouldn't be the reason some broad goes for you over another guy. YOU SHOULD BE THE REASON THESE THINGS HAPPEN.

If you need a suped up car to feel confidence or feel like you own the club, you seriously need to work on your game lol.

peace!

Don't get me wrong I laugh too when I see some chump pull up in a hot rod car all done up to compensate for some of his other shortcomings. It is sad and somewhat funny. I agree.

However, throughout this thread, NO ONE has said that you NEED a hot car to pull women!!! No one is basing their game on the car they drive either. If they have said that I must have missed it.

It is very TRUE though that hot cars get attention from women.
Why? Who the f#ck knows? Why do women like jerks, or confidence, or guys who are a challenge? It doesn't really matter why. That's just the way it IS. Its nature. Women have shown us what they are attracted to and men respond accordingly. That's nature too.

It affects the way we dress, talk, act, carry ourselves, everything! Do you shower and fix your hair in the morning so that the guys at work will be impressed?

It is entirely natural for both sexes to project the images that they know attract the other. If women are attracted to hot cars because they equate that with money and security then SO BE IT. Men didn't make that rule. They merely respond.

No one has said that a plain car means certain failure with women. Only that a hot car may indeed help.

Die thread. DIE!!!

 

[DonRob]

Originally posted by Slickster
I wasn't trying to insult you Rob. Just making a joke there. I never said you NEED a hot car to pull women.

However can you honestly tell me that owning and driving those sweet cars have never produced a single positive reaction from the ladies? If not there must be some unseen forces at work.

Maybe you are living in the only gold digger-less town in the world. For the rest of us though, we have to live with the fact that hot cars turn heads and plain ones don't.

Once again, Peace.

Actually I find it to be quite the opposite, especially with your ordinary chick. They don't want you thinking they are around because you are successful.

I think you guys are way too hung up on the ancillary stuff. You are hung up on the 1% and missing the 99% Its about your personality and making the woman FEEL SOMETHING. If you fail at making her feel attraction then the ride you have, how fat your wallet is and what kind of pad you have wont mean shyt! You won't even get that far.

If you manage to get that far and you start leaning on the 1% you're going to flame out with the good babe and draw the gold digger

 

[Slickster]

Okay DonRob your point is made.

I'm going to try a little experiment.

I'm going to drive my winter car for a week. Its real plain and definitely doesn't attract attention. I'm going to dress down too. I'll only wear gray's and browns and I'll scuff my shoes. I'm going to yellow my teeth and stop combing my hair as well. I'm going to the dollar store to pick up a velcro wallet which I'm going to leave empty. I'm going to be the averagest joe around.

I'll set out to approach the hottest women I can find and I'll report back my successes/failures.

My game is going to have to be strong but I'm hoping that I won't need it. The women I meet are going to see through all that phony shyt and they are going to like me for me and not my car or my money.

I'll show those gold digging beatches a thing or two.:crackup:

 

[al77]

Originally posted by DonRob


1. Actually I find it to be quite the opposite, especially with your ordinary chick. They don't want you thinking they are around because you are successful.

2. I think you guys are way too hung up on the ancillary stuff. You are hung up on the 1% and missing the 99% Its about your personality and making the woman FEEL SOMETHING. If you fail at making her feel attraction then the ride you have, how fat your wallet is and what kind of pad you have wont mean shyt! You won't even get that far.

3. If you manage to get that far and you start leaning on the 1% you're going to flame out with the good babe and draw the gold digger

1. Thats right. and it is simple to avoid - dont brag about what you have or drive... just have it and drive it. She will get the message and give you enough points.

2. Well... what you are saying is if there is an attraction, than you dont need a cool car. Sure, since you already got her (attraction)... there is no need for anything else.

3. No way! it is like your personal jet would make you lazy and you would attract only golddiggers.
Nowdays anyone can get almost any car with a tine downpayment - thats why women dont react to cars anymore...

Offer her a ride.. on your private jet. And observe her reaction before.. and after. She knows you could not buy it with a couple of thousand downpayment. And it makes it so EASY for her to fall in love.......

Besides all of that, no one is saying you have to forget about the game. Just signs of money will help her to fall in love really quickly - she may not even realize it - you know - women...

 

[bullmoose]

Originally posted by al77


Offer her a ride.. on your private jet. And observe her reaction before.. and after.

Just signs of money will help her to fall in love really quickly - she may not even realize it

Can I get an a-MEN!?

Similarly, I know that if a woman DOES recognize my watch ("Oooh! Is that a Patek Phillippe?!") I need to hump & dump her because she's likely a professional gold-digger who's done her homework; nothing I want to get involved with -- well, for more than a few sweaty hours, anyway.

 

[princelydeeds]

Who cares what you have or what car you drive!! You're all posers.

Honestly, This is my 2 cents, cars will get you noticed. My sister and I swap cars all the time. She works for Ford and gets a new car (Jaguar, Volvo, Lincoln etc) every few months. I drive a fairly anonymous newer domestic car. I do ok with women, with or without a car. Women get in my car and think "ok this guy has a decent new car, he must have his stuff together." When I step out of a jaguar or drop top mustang ( I think they are crap but chicks digs them), most women are thinking "wow, man this guy has a great car,"I get waay more attention. I've gotten laid just because i was driving a nice car. Women like guys who own cars. Women like guys who drive very nice cars, even more. Cars get you attention. Nice cars get you even more attention.

I think that women look for a guy who has his stuff together. A strong guy who is independent and thinks for himself. If you meet these qualifications, you can get women even if you ride the bus. However, I think you will be alot more successsfull in a car. I say do yourself a favor anf get yourself a car. It doesn't have to be a great car just get somethign that runs and is reliable.

 

[scordate]

I have 2 cars; a VW and a Vette 71

I always, repeat *always* take the VW on the first couple of dates.

Bringing the vette on the first dates will attract the wrong girls ( or the right girls depending on your mood ;-) )

But. whichever car you have; keep it clean and smelling nice.

OK i'll come clean; there have been girls where I take the vette on first dates too ! LOL