Best Car to NOT Impress a new girlfriend
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Shambler said:
MX5 ?
Had a gf who was NOT impressed with it. Especially when it had an earth problem and kept draining the battery, meaning I had to keep bump starting it down the road, at silly o'clock in the morning when it's freezing and I'm trying to give her a lift home that didn't go down well.She was a stupid w
e anyway.Had some stupid b
h insult my ST205 Celica GT4 - She kept saying "it sounds broken" it was the turbo / wastegate etc noises 
Turning up in a poo brown 1984 Celica Supra with the worlds loudest exhaust, brown interior and a Knightrider-esque digital dash did not impress the girl I was seeing. She liked the sound of it but for some inexplicable reason thought it was ugly? However 5 years on and we're engaged so can't have been to bad!
phil_h_88 said:
Turning up in a poo brown 1984 Celica Supra with the worlds loudest exhaust, brown interior and a Knightrider-esque digital dash did not impress the girl I was seeing. She liked the sound of it but for some inexplicable reason thought it was ugly? However 5 years on and we're engaged so can't have been to bad!
Are you sure she isn't going to marry you to take some kind of revenge? 
Mrs Muppet quite liked my mk2 MR2, seen from a distance in a pub car park at night. She liked it less when she found out it was light blue with gold wheels, but to be fair so did I.
Unfortunately for her the first time I picked her up for a date was in my stripped out S12 Nissan Silvia Turbo, with bucket seats and a welded diff. I drove something like 200m and then we swapped and went in her car instead.
She wasn't that happy when she found out about my matte black 3-series. I didn't know the window was broken until she started telling me about this abandoned car on the street near her friends house...
Nice disasterous 3 car fleet at the time. She also hates my MX5. The 5 series was also a miss because she said is didn't suit me (possibly because it had too many doors and wasn't uncomfortable or broken).
The 2CV was the only car that girls I didn't know have asked for a ride in. By far the worst actual car I've owned though.
Unfortunately for her the first time I picked her up for a date was in my stripped out S12 Nissan Silvia Turbo, with bucket seats and a welded diff. I drove something like 200m and then we swapped and went in her car instead.
She wasn't that happy when she found out about my matte black 3-series. I didn't know the window was broken until she started telling me about this abandoned car on the street near her friends house...
Nice disasterous 3 car fleet at the time. She also hates my MX5. The 5 series was also a miss because she said is didn't suit me (possibly because it had too many doors and wasn't uncomfortable or broken).
The 2CV was the only car that girls I didn't know have asked for a ride in. By far the worst actual car I've owned though.
Dr G said:
Anything track prepared. I speak from experience.
It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
This. Also, most Japanese stuff.It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
Track prepared Japanese stuff is really bad. Ported rotary engines also don't go down well.
cocopop said:
Dr G said:
Anything track prepared. I speak from experience.
It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
This. Also, most Japanese stuff.It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
Track prepared Japanese stuff is really bad. Ported rotary engines also don't go down well.
The standard one was very popular. The other one wasn't.
cocopop said:
Dr G said:
Anything track prepared. I speak from experience.
It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
This. Also, most Japanese stuff.It's noisy, it's bumpy, it's loud, it's chavvy, I'm not comfy, my back hurts, there's no stereo, it looks stupid...
Track prepared Japanese stuff is really bad. Ported rotary engines also don't go down well.
cocopop said:
Captain Muppet said:
For a while I had a pair of CRXs (mk2s not the dreadful Del Sol).
The standard one was very popular. The other one wasn't.
Girls do seem to have some sort of attachment to interior trim. Don't understand it myself.The standard one was very popular. The other one wasn't.
blank said:
Anything with a Skoda badge.
Even a relatively new, non offensive, shiny black Octavia vRS.
"I thought you worked with cars so I assumed you'd have something nicer than a Skoda".
Funnily enough my first car was a Skoda super estelle & I thought that would ruin my chances with girls...but the engine behind the rear seats was a god send in the winter! Nice & cosy when you were having a heart to heart! Even a relatively new, non offensive, shiny black Octavia vRS.
"I thought you worked with cars so I assumed you'd have something nicer than a Skoda".
BRMMA said:
Marc p said:
My first car was a Honda Civic coupe with bodykit, farty exhaust, massive spoiler, stickered up like a BDC car and......wait for it.....Lambo Doors
At 17, the girls loved it, can't see me in it at 25 though
at 17 if i saw you in that i'd have thought you were the man, in fact i'm sure in your area you were the manAt 17, the girls loved it, can't see me in it at 25 though
I had a Vespa scooter thinking i'd look like Jude Law in Alfie, the problems for me were A) I'm not Jude Law, B)He's wearing a Dior suit, i'm wearing hand-me-down waterproofs, C) He's cruising down some cool street in London without a helmet, I've got a helmet that looks like i'm a medieval diver and am going around suburban Derbyshire
I suppose this is why I don't get too worked up when I see a 17-18 year old in some heavily modified Corsa 1.2 as I was exactly the same back then(as I'm sure a hell of a lot on here were as well). It's more when I see someone in there mid-20s or older driving a bit of a barry boy car as they should know better(and yes, that includes 'stanced' cars
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