Most manly car?
Discussion
Odd choice I know, but...
1. Obviously not compensating for anything.
2. Manly mechanical knowledge a necessity to keep it running.
3. Probably the most important bit, the ladies love it! I get glances and waves all the time from cute young women. In the Porsches and ferraris I've been in, it's only been men waving (well thumbs up anyway).
PaulMoor said:
Lets see. Clearly any 60's/70's muscle car is in. The new ones are just a bit to lardy and camp.
Older Astons. There is a fine line that goes from "suave and manly" in to "tweed and pipe" with astons though. Often dependant on which engine you have.
Cobras, manly but ruined by to many tweed and pipe built fakes.
How about the lancia stratos? Brutal but pritty lines, a pig to drive but stunningly fast if you are man enough to tame it. Not like a muscle car that is just a pig all the time.
Anything kit car fails (including factory built 7's) on the sterotype of type of person they attract to build them (Although I am saving for a 7 myself).
Possibly some sort of hot rod? A propper home built one, not one of these chromed show only jobs where the underside is cleaner than my kitchen.
You have a clean kitchen? What sort of man are you?!?!Older Astons. There is a fine line that goes from "suave and manly" in to "tweed and pipe" with astons though. Often dependant on which engine you have.
Cobras, manly but ruined by to many tweed and pipe built fakes.
How about the lancia stratos? Brutal but pritty lines, a pig to drive but stunningly fast if you are man enough to tame it. Not like a muscle car that is just a pig all the time.
Anything kit car fails (including factory built 7's) on the sterotype of type of person they attract to build them (Although I am saving for a 7 myself).
Possibly some sort of hot rod? A propper home built one, not one of these chromed show only jobs where the underside is cleaner than my kitchen.
daemonoid said:
Odd choice I know, but...
1. Obviously not compensating for anything.
2. Manly mechanical knowledge a necessity to keep it running.
3. Probably the most important bit, the ladies love it! I get glances and waves all the time from cute young women. In the Porsches and ferraris I've been in, it's only been men waving (well thumbs up anyway).
How about one of these? Built on a proper chassis, unnecessarily huge, drinks loads, intimidates, it's black... and it has nudge bars that really work. Best car ever for carrying out PIT manouevres on the way to the garden centre...
Alternatively something big, fast and front engined from the time before "new age men" and the era of "male grooming" - Jensen Interceptor, De Tomaso Longchamp, Maserati Kyalami, pretty much anything that could be advertised by a bloke with a Rothmans and a leather jacket over his roll neck woolly (normally parked on a field next to an aeroplane or on a jetty next to a yacht, but always with a Jane Fonda lookalike in the background).
Ooooh, Buick Grand National, yes please.
Alternatively something big, fast and front engined from the time before "new age men" and the era of "male grooming" - Jensen Interceptor, De Tomaso Longchamp, Maserati Kyalami, pretty much anything that could be advertised by a bloke with a Rothmans and a leather jacket over his roll neck woolly (normally parked on a field next to an aeroplane or on a jetty next to a yacht, but always with a Jane Fonda lookalike in the background).
Ooooh, Buick Grand National, yes please.
daemonoid said:
3. Probably the most important bit, the ladies love it! I get glances and waves all the time from cute young women. In the Porsches and ferraris I've been in, it's only been men waving (well thumbs up anyway).
Of course ladies love it, in the same way they love £600 shoes and wearing dresses.(Both of those examples are also not manly, if my point wasn't clear enough)
TheEnd said:
Of course ladies love it, in the same way they love £600 shoes and wearing dresses.
(Both of those examples are also not manly, if my point wasn't clear enough)
Ah, I get what you mean now - you're after a car that puts off women and gets you in with the guys. After all it's much more manly to be in the pub playing dominoes rather than at a lass's getting your end away (Both of those examples are also not manly, if my point wasn't clear enough)
daemonoid said:
TheEnd said:
Of course ladies love it, in the same way they love £600 shoes and wearing dresses.
(Both of those examples are also not manly, if my point wasn't clear enough)
Ah, I get what you mean now - you're after a car that puts off women and gets you in with the guys. After all it's much more manly to be in the pub playing dominoes rather than at a lass's getting your end away (Both of those examples are also not manly, if my point wasn't clear enough)
Hasbeen said:
We blokes lost the race, [& probably the human race], when we were silly enough to fit power steering to men's cars. While the little lady could not turn the wheel we were safe. However, from what I see of these SNAGS, [sensitive new age guys], wandering around today, without power steering, most of them would be restricted to riding the bus too.
I'm a 5'2" girl and none of my current cars have PAS. I HATE driver aids with a passion and drive eccentric cars everyday. If a short girl like me can drive anything, anyone can. End of. Oh and sorry to disappoint you boys but I want most things on this list so far and am more likely to own many of them in my lifetime than a lot of you are.Anyway, cool TR7.
V8Triumph said:
I'm a 5'2" girl and none of my current cars have PAS. I HATE driver aids with a passion and drive eccentric cars everyday. If a short girl like me can drive anything, anyone can. End of. Oh and sorry to disappoint you boys but I want most things on this list so far and am more likely to own many of them in my lifetime than a lot of you are.
Anyway, cool TR7.
Who threw you a peanut Anyway, cool TR7.
V8Triumph said:
I'm a 5'2" girl and none of my current cars have PAS. I HATE driver aids with a passion and drive eccentric cars everyday. If a short girl like me can drive anything, anyone can. End of. Oh and sorry to disappoint you boys but I want most things on this list so far and am more likely to have a husband who will own many of them in my lifetime than a lot of you are.
EFARaize said:
V8Triumph said:
I'm a 5'2" girl and none of my current cars have PAS. I HATE driver aids with a passion and drive eccentric cars everyday. If a short girl like me can drive anything, anyone can. End of. Oh and sorry to disappoint you boys but I want most things on this list so far and am more likely to have a husband who will own many of them in my lifetime than a lot of you are.
EFA If I were to marry a rich man who works very hard to buy me a Cobra, a '68 Charger, a real Aston Martin V8V, an E-type, a supercharged TR6, an MG TA, a MGB GT V8 race car and a Jaguar 420G. I'd be more than happy to let him. Kept woman of a rich man would be probably my dream job - more time to drive old cars about and race 
Almost everything hereinabove smacks of peacockery and codpiece. Real men don't feel the need to brag about it. A real man's car, surely, is a saloon or at a push a fixed head coupé. It is quiet, discreet and unassuming. It is ultra high quality and unquestionably reliable. And, of course, it is fast. None of the many cars presently on sale meets all of these criteria with the possible exception of the Maserati Quattroporte, which is somewhat spoiled by being unavailable in a tasetful specification and associated with those vulgar and excessive coupés.
Cars which best represent the breed are:
(1) Mercedes-Benz 500 E. But not with big wheels and blacked out windows.
(2) Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Prince of Wales spec. Gunmetal Grey Metallic preferred.
(3) Jaguar Sovereign Series III V12.
(4) BMW M5 (E28 only, though). Not a red one.
(5) Mercedes-Benz 300 SE L 6.3.
(6) Mercedes-Benz 450 SE L 6.9.
(7) Any front-engined V12 Ferrari with a manual transmission up to and including the 575M (but emphatically not the 599 which really is only for secretly gay Arab princes or men who wish they were secretly gay Arab princes), so long as it is neither red nor black nor upholstered in red leather. Fitment of an after market exhaust immediately disqualifies the vehicle from manly status. The manly Ferrari is a difficult one to pull off. As it were. A silver 412 upholstered in brown leather and fitted up with the 5 speed manual is the epitome of the man's Ferrari.
Cars which best represent the breed are:
(1) Mercedes-Benz 500 E. But not with big wheels and blacked out windows.
(2) Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Prince of Wales spec. Gunmetal Grey Metallic preferred.
(3) Jaguar Sovereign Series III V12.
(4) BMW M5 (E28 only, though). Not a red one.
(5) Mercedes-Benz 300 SE L 6.3.
(6) Mercedes-Benz 450 SE L 6.9.
(7) Any front-engined V12 Ferrari with a manual transmission up to and including the 575M (but emphatically not the 599 which really is only for secretly gay Arab princes or men who wish they were secretly gay Arab princes), so long as it is neither red nor black nor upholstered in red leather. Fitment of an after market exhaust immediately disqualifies the vehicle from manly status. The manly Ferrari is a difficult one to pull off. As it were. A silver 412 upholstered in brown leather and fitted up with the 5 speed manual is the epitome of the man's Ferrari.
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