Sports Cars

[ayrton]

EXACTLY!!!

Jeez, where do you guys live? Sounds like the small town I was born in. Couldn't wait to get out of there. Thank god the only horse trailers I see are towed behind a police van. Besides this is supposed to be about sports cars not trucks. Back to the topic, I had a nice Porsche and and a couple little British sports cars over the years, but I can't say they were ever chick magnets. Of course when I was in my prime, I went for hippie girls and they generally could give a crap if you even had a car.

 

[Texguy84]

Nice cars are great if it fits your personality and lifestyle. Obvious penis extensions will get more attention than the driver. People who buy a Hummer(or similar vehicle) and never leave paved road should be left in the middle of the desert with their 'ride'. (small rant)

I like clean cars

Actually, if it's a first-generation Hummer, and you gave him a map and a compass and water, he might do pretty decently. The first gen hummers (which you hardly ever see any more) were basically the HMMMVs with nicer paint jobs. The later versions... less of that.

Now, I've met some folks who like to take pickup trucks and soup them up for racing. I never understood that, but then they probably don't understand why I own three or four separate cameras either, with all the interchangeable lenses and flashes and what not. I mean, hell, some people even like watch other people play sports. The world is full of weirdos.

 

[LilyPru]

As long as he can drive stick, I don't really care what kind of car a guy has in his driveway.

Double entendre intended, obviously.

 

[XsNrg]

My wife will readily admit she began dating me .......long time ago......in college because she liked and wanted to drive the black MG I had at the time.

Now..........she always has a sports car of one kind or another but she never mentions anything about them being chick magnets..

 

[ayrton]

As long as he can drive stick, I don't really care what kind of car a guy has in his driveway.

Double entendre intended, obviously.

I'm your guy...I would never own an automatic. Takes all the enjoyment out of driving. That said, it is getting harder and harder to find a car with a true manual. All these floppy paddle shifters and no clutch.
Also, I love a woman driving a stick. Something about the way she has to part her legs to work the clutch and holding the stick in her hand. Very erotic.

 

[Sans Tache]

My wife will readily admit she began dating me .......long time ago......in college because she liked and wanted to drive the black MG I had at the time.

Now..........she always has a sports car of one kind or another but she never mentions anything about them being chick magnets..

What year MG?

Myself, I'm an older grey haired guy and, when the weather's pleasant, drive our '59 MGAfhc (fixed head coupe) or the '52 Jag XK120. Pana prefers the Jag beings it's a roadster and she is much more visible in her low cut blouses or clingy & thin tank tops. But whether I'm alone or with my beautifully voluptuous wife the comment is usually... Are you as good a ride as your car?
Every drive is an experience.

 

[TheOne007]

^That's a great quote...I need that for a bumper sticker!

 

[Que]

The $400 1989 CRX I'm driving while I argue the impound of my truck does in fact get noticed by chicks and not in a good way...I have named it "gold digger repellent" It beat out the 1989 corvette for top spot in best handling car in 1989 car and driver. Even with worn out suspension and minimal tires I can beat anything you have in a straight up slalom course. Did I mention it was $400?

You can still find a nice rear wheel drive mid eighties corolla GTS for $1200-2000 or so. IF (and thats a very big if) you can get a chick to park her ass in one of the above and she genuinely appreciates adrenaline fueled lawbreaking, it can be done pretty cheap. My motorhead daughter likes anything red with a wing and an expensive price tag. ~shrug~ Its on the X chromosome I think.

My "mid-life crisis" has been beat to hell, It'll take the doors off about any production car you can name, AND beat it on a road course..Less than $10,000 it. Another $3K on a rebuild, stronger rod bolts, sleeving and a modest 12-15 lbs boost and theres very little that would touch it..and yeah the chicks would rather see a shiny GT-R, or shudder a "bitchin' camaro". Not gonna hate on the mustangs though, got my doors peeled back by one driven by an helo mechaic that allowed, he "might've made a few changes".

 

[Marguerite01]

Love a Skoda! My ex had one that looked like a Karmann Ghia- we called it his tin can porsche. The controls were like something out of an old sci-fi movie. Sports cars are SOOO passe- a man with a car that has character ROCKS.

 

[kiwi_submissive]

A friend of mine owned a WRX STI Subaru Impreza. He said the year he owned that car he got laid more times than before or after combined. It got to the point that he used to take me out as his decoy girlfriend sometimes as he got sick of the "rotary hoes" (car skanks) hitting on him.

 

[Felix_Jones]

A- hell yeah! For me its a matter of function over form.
B- and what exactly is wrong with being a hick? I've dated accountants and attorneys and I've dated ranchers and welders, give me the later group any day of the week.
C- nothing beats a man who knows how to put in a long, hard day of honest work; besides work muscles are so much sexier than gym muscles.
D- yer missin' out on all us good, down to Earth, honest, genuine women; more for the hicks I guess

Notice how the title of this thread was sports cars....the key word being cars. Your farm machinery fetish is slightly beside the point here.

 

[Felix_Jones]

A friend of mine owned a WRX STI Subaru Impreza. He said the year he owned that car he got laid more times than before or after combined. It got to the point that he used to take me out as his decoy girlfriend sometimes as he got sick of the "rotary hoes" (car skanks) hitting on him.

Those things are rockets! And not very expensive either.

 

[Texguy84]

Notice how the title of this thread was sports cars....the key word being cars. Your farm machinery fetish is slightly beside the point here.

As a form of compromise, I'm trying to picture a pickup truck as designed by Bugatti.

 

[Felix_Jones]

As a form of compromise, I'm trying to picture a pickup truck as designed by Bugatti.

Vauxhall designed one in Australia called a Mooloo. It's basically an El Camino with a super charger. I mean it's fast and all, but still an El Camino, not exactly the paragon of automotive development.

Pick-up trucks have their place, to be sure, but people use them as commuter vehicles. The most baffling for me is that they've become (mostly in the United States and rural Canada) a bit of a status symbol. Really? I mean to me it's a status symbol the same way a grain elevator would be one, or a combine or an attachment to your tractor that spreads manure more efficiently.

 

[Texguy84]

Vauxhall designed one in Australia called a Mooloo. It's basically an El Camino with a super charger. I mean it's fast and all, but still an El Camino, not exactly the paragon of automotive development.

Pick-up trucks have their place, to be sure, but people use them as commuter vehicles. The most baffling for me is that they've become (mostly in the United States and rural Canada) a bit of a status symbol. Really? I mean to me it's a status symbol the same way a grain elevator would be one, or a combine or an attachment to your tractor that spreads manure more efficiently.

Eh, just accept it as one of those weird cultural quirks that aren't worth stressing over and move on.

 

[dannyboy1958]

Love a Skoda! My ex had one that looked like a Karmann Ghia- we called it his tin can porsche. The controls were like something out of an old sci-fi movie. Sports cars are SOOO passe- a man with a car that has character ROCKS.

I agree - Ive a porsche 911 and a 1972 MGB Roadster, although the 911 is lovely to drive, the MGB is like a old friend.

 

[Texguy84]

I wish I had a chance to find out what sort of women I'd attract with a 1964 Pontiac Banshee.

Alas, GM killed the Banshee it couldn't show up the Corvette.

 

[Felix_Jones]

Love a Skoda! My ex had one that looked like a Karmann Ghia- we called it his tin can porsche. The controls were like something out of an old sci-fi movie. Sports cars are SOOO passe- a man with a car that has character ROCKS.

Do you know that in quite a few Eastern European languages if you pronounce Skoda like Shkoda it means injury? Even in Czech. I wonder if they knew that from the get-go.

 

[cfuhrer]

you want a lit thread to stay on topic?

Notice how the title of this thread was sports cars....the key word being cars. Your farm machinery fetish is slightly beside the point here.

The thread title is indeed sports cars.
The content of the OP, by my reading, is the shallowness of women in regards to sports cars.
I chimed in to point out that I was not so shallow as to be sucked in by the facade of a vehicle. To date, by my count, two others have chimed in to the same.

Its not a fetish, its a lifestyle

 

[Felix_Jones]

The thread title is indeed sports cars.
The content of the OP, by my reading, is the shallowness of women in regards to sports cars.
I chimed in to point out that I was not so shallow as to be sucked in by the facade of a vehicle. To date, by my count, two others have chimed in to the same.

Its not a fetish, its a lifestyle

*laugh* Isn't that what the swingers say?

Fair play,though. I live in a big city. Trucks just aren't practical here unless you're in highway construction or something, and without the utility it's just a whole lot of ugly on four wheels. So I imagine the draw for the shallower of the fairer sex won't be there. Kind of the way it wasn't for my co-worker whom I quoted in the original post.

 

[NovaAsianCouple]

I own a r35 gt-r and while I believe it's the best value sports car, a babe magnet it is not. It is more of a dick magnet then anything else. All you have is bunch fanbois chasing you around with their camera phones. If you want a babe magnet, get a bright colored Porsche convertible. You want Godzilla, get a gt-r.

 

[StilettosNSpurs]

Here, here. If it can't pull a horse trailer or load firewood out of the mountains I'm really not interested. If his daily driver is good old fashioned American muscle, that's just a bonus.

I agree 100%! I sure do miss my F250 but not the hubby.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

A friend of mine owned a WRX STI Subaru Impreza. He said the year he owned that car he got laid more times than before or after combined. It got to the point that he used to take me out as his decoy girlfriend sometimes as he got sick of the "rotary hoes" (car skanks) hitting on him.

Rally cars rule! They're made to race on actual roads, they are far more practical than tiny little sports cars, they fit tall people like me, and when you eventually have kids, you can stick them in the back and still go flying down dirt roads. And trust me when I say the STI attraction works both ways. I owned mine when I was in my early twenties, and at one point I put on a wedding band to deflect male attention.

My husband and I both had STIs when when we met. We've since sold one and replaced it with an absurdly efficient diesel; it was really embarrassing to drive anywhere together.

As far as sports cars . . . the other day I saw a mid-1960s Shelby GT on the road with--swoon--blue and white racing stripes, and for one brief moment I imagined scenarios of how I could leave my husband for the driver.

 

[TheOne007]

That's funny on the STi. I think it's a great car, gotta love the Flat 4, but around here that just wouldn't fly as a "chic magnet". This is a car culture town, the fanboys would go nuts, but you rarely to never see a girl begging to get with a guy with a Subbie.

Trucks is a 50/50 split. I get a kick out of seeing these soccer moms driving around F-250 Super Duty's and they look like they are 16 years old in that thing. I do admit in college the guys that would install Bullydog Performance Propane injection, Stacks out the back, raised and blowing black smoke like it was in a pull. Props to them, but it wasn't my culture.

My culture in college was taking a DA teg, right hand drive swap, and drop in a K20A. An old friend did it, and it was pretty slick.

I'd rather build a Cobra with stroked 427, or a 33 Ford with a 428 bored, stroked, and blown (if I could find the engine!).

 

[Felix_Jones]

I own a r35 gt-r and while I believe it's the best value sports car, a babe magnet it is not. It is more of a dick magnet then anything else. All you have is bunch fanbois chasing you around with their camera phones. If you want a babe magnet, get a bright colored Porsche convertible. You want Godzilla, get a gt-r.

You're so bumming me out, man. Porsches are everywhere, but I see what you mean. I went to a Bon Jovi concert last year (the tickets were free and so was the booze, otherwise I wouldn't even dream of listening to that ass clown), and the fucking place was rammed with women! This was ACC in Toronto, something like 15000 people, totally sold out, and something like three-quarters women. It was one of the most depressing revelations of my life, there are loads of hot women out there and most of them like really shitty music.
The guy in my original post has a 350Z, not bad, but not exactly super-powered. Maybe the GT-R sensibilities among the hot women here might be different than where you are.