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Comrade Flynn posted:I thought the same until the Lambo. It definitely attracts women. I mean, not great women, but women. I've had cars full of girls follow me into gas stations multiple times now. I guess it's not so much "cool" cars as really expensive ones the layperson can identify. Every girl I've dated has hated my Corvette because it's too low and hard to get in and out of (if you're out of shape I guess?) But obviously a used Corvette doesn't have anyone saying there goes a well-to-do dot com millionaire. Hey at least I'm not some 60 year old bald dude like most Corvette owners (I will be, give me time.)
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Comrade Flynn posted:I thought the same until the Lambo. It definitely attracts women. I mean, not great women, but women. I've had cars full of girls follow me into gas stations multiple times now. I'm hoping they might consider the Midget "cute" once I'm done painting it... dunno what they'll think about the fat married guy with his head sticking up above the windshield, though.
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davebo posted:I guess it's not so much "cool" cars as really expensive ones the layperson can identify. Every girl I've dated has hated my Corvette because it's too low and hard to get in and out of (if you're out of shape I guess?) But obviously a used Corvette doesn't have anyone saying there goes a well-to-do dot com millionaire. Hey at least I'm not some 60 year old bald dude like most Corvette owners (I will be, give me time.) This is exactly it. Most people that buy cars that cost 100+k do so because they are trying to flaunt their money. Chicks don't care about cool cars, they care about people driving rich people cars.
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Tremek posted:So unlike Photoshop McGee above, some of us know how to do real burnouts with foot-wide tires. Come on man, only 12 inches of rubber? Here's 13 inches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aUPMPARws4 (edit in progress, so just skip forward to like 30sec if it shows as over a minute long) ... it counts as 13" if it's evenly split between the two front tires right? I need an LSD for this thing.
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veedubfreak posted:This is exactly it. Most people that buy cars that cost 100+k do so because they are trying to flaunt their money. Chicks don't care about cool cars, they care about people driving rich people cars. On the other hand, it makes it easy to weed out gold digging girls.
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veedubfreak posted:This is exactly it. Most people that buy cars that cost 100+k do so because they are trying to flaunt their money. Chicks don't care about cool cars, they care about people driving rich people cars. I get tons of love from random strangers, including the ladies, when driving around in my Mini - which is not a "rich dude" car, albeit a pretty unusual ride Stateside. Were I single, that attention would be trivially easy to convert.
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dreesemonkey posted:He's probably had 10 cars since his last fit, he's the very definition of Automotive ADHD Wow. I've been driving since i was 14 or 15, something like 2000-2002 and i've only ever owned 2 cars, both of which were from the mid 90s. I dont want to sell my cars ever, much less with any frequency. Why would i replace it? I bought the right one the  
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Wow. I've been driving since i was 14 or 15, something like 2000-2002 and i've only ever owned 2 cars, both of which were from the mid 90s. I dont want to sell my cars ever, much less with any frequency. CAuse you might need to put more than a shoebox in the car.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'm hoping they might consider the Midget "cute" once I'm done painting it... dunno what they'll think about the fat married guy with his head sticking up above the windshield, though. Ha good luck, old British cars for the most part attract old men. So do old German cars.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Ha good luck, old British cars for the most part attract old men. So do old German cars. Can confirm.
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SquirrelGrip posted:
Forget the blue thing, let's talk about the work truck. What is it and do you have more pictures of it?
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Bovril Delight posted:Does she call it "sporty"? Idk her last three cars have been chrysler town & countrys so probably
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BlackMK4 posted:Can confirm. I'm with you on that one as well.
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Every other guy I know hates my avalanche since its "not a real truck". Plenty of chicks like it though. Its comfy, rides good and they seem to like the somewhat unique look it has compared to a regular truck. And the it costs $$ thing. 
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veedubfreak posted:CAuse you might need to put more than a shoebox in the car. That's when you put the top down/take off the hardtop
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Elmnt80 posted:Every other guy I know hates my avalanche since its "not a real truck". Plenty of chicks like it though. Its comfy, rides good and they seem to like the somewhat unique look it has compared to a regular truck. And the it costs $$ thing. I am really happy that you like your Avalanche, but they are ugly as hell. Figures that women like it, most women tend to disagree with me on matters of taste.
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I've looked into stripping the plastic cladding off plenty of times. Sadly there isn't really a good way to do it that won't leave a bunch of holes in the body. EDIT: And for the record, I agree that its ugly. I'm just used to it by now and entirely stockholm syndrome'd.
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Comrade Flynn posted:
That's not a burnout pic. You have work to do.
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F-Type's really growing on me, seen a few about and they have great presence. Also you better post your number plates or Rohit will come rattle your pots and pans
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dreesemonkey posted:He's probably had 10 cars since his last fit, he's the very definition of Automotive ADHD You're not far off. I have had close to 60 (?) cars in the past 18 years I think.
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kastein posted:Come on man, only 12 inches of rubber? Here's 13 inches. Don't skip anything in this video. The anticipation, listening to some bird chirping, followed by cock-tease sounds of random traffic, before the MAIN EVENT is totally worth it. In fact, I wanted to keep watching - you looked like you were going to roll backwards back down the hill but the video just ENDS. 
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Comrade Flynn posted:
Why the hell is it still wearing the loving dealer plate surround?
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MrYenko posted:Why the hell is it still wearing the loving dealer plate surround? Because it says CATSEX on it.
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MrYenko posted:Why the hell is it still wearing the loving dealer plate surround? Why not? I rock dealer plate surrounds for a while when I get a good deal/am treated well.
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ExecuDork posted:Don't skip anything in this video. The anticipation, listening to some bird chirping, followed by cock-tease sounds of random traffic, before the MAIN EVENT is totally worth it. In fact, I wanted to keep watching - you looked like you were going to roll backwards back down the hill but the video just ENDS. That's the truncated version, it was a lot more boring full length I did in fact roll backwards down the hill, since I had to back it down into the yard to park it so I could drive the other subaru to work.
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Insanely Sikh posted:F-Type's really growing on me, seen a few about and they have great presence. I'm a Brit fan anyways, but the F-Type is loving beautiful. The V6 sounds downright exotic as well. They are doing an AWD version of the V8 soon so you don't kill yourself by looking at the go pedal.
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I think it looks like a ferrari california with a little bit of chrysler crossfire mixed in (i dont know why he didnt do his "squatting dog" bit on the jag. probibly becuase its british and not american) I prefer the look of the XK8 coupe.
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PCOS Bill posted:Why not? I rock dealer plate surrounds for a while when I get a good deal/am treated well. Mine used to say "~Vindfeld Exclusive Cars~", which I thought was pretty rad for a 1.5 decade-old Peugeot. Unfortunately I had to have my rear bumper replaced and the stealership garage put boring rear end normal dealer surrounds on it instead 
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PCOS Bill posted:Why not? I rock dealer plate surrounds for a while when I get a good deal/am treated well. I think they look incredibly gaudy. Unless the dealer is paying me a monthly stipend to advertise for them, the plate surrounds come off very quickly.
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Ive seen an F-Type driving around when I go out on my lunch break occasionally, sounds awesome but the guy never gives it any beans. Dealer plate frames and emblems and windshield banners are terrible, Cage fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Apr 16, 2015 |
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angryhampster posted:I think they look incredibly gaudy. Unless the dealer is paying me a monthly stipend to advertise for them, the plate surrounds come off very quickly. It looks like you don't give a poo poo about your car when you leave them on, that you were done thinking about it after you picked it up. A car is a project! 
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MrYenko posted:Why the hell is it still wearing the loving dealer plate surround? Roy Cats cut me an absurd deal and we hang out every once in awhile. There's a pretty high probability I'll buy most of my future vehicles from him. Plus the Lamborghini repair place is a part of his dealership.
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POKEMAN SAM posted:It looks like you don't give a poo poo about your car when you leave them on, that you were done thinking about it after you picked it up. My buddy came by yesterday and we determined that his car had two dealer badges on it from two different dealerships, and a license plate frame from a third. I don't even know how that happens without dealership B removing the badge of dealership A.
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Elmnt80 posted:Every other guy I know hates my avalanche since its "not a real truck". Plenty of chicks like it though. Its comfy, rides good and they seem to like the somewhat unique look it has compared to a regular truck. And the it costs $$ thing. It's a Honda Ridgeline with none of the reliability and infinity^infinity% more ugly body cladding that faded 6mo after purchase.
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At least the Avalanche has an actual truck motor that faces the right direction and has some manner of tow/haul capability, but it's still a fake bullshit truck made for suburbanites who need to compensate more than a fullsize SUV will allow them to without the downsides of owning an actual truck.
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LeeMajors posted:It's a Honda Ridgeline with none of the reliability and infinity^infinity% more ugly body cladding that faded 6mo after purchase. When the ridgeline was introduced as a concept in 2004, the avalanche had already been in production for 3 years and the ridgeline used almost the exact same side profile as the Avalanche. All of its major parts are shared between GMs various SUV and truck platforms which have proven to be absurdly reliable and quite capable of crossing the 300k and 400k mark with regular preventative maintenance. The only real reliability issues ever unique to the avalanche were lovely seals around the midgate in the first two years and the fading cladding problem (which GM fixed under warranty once a solution was found). And while it took them till 07 to nix the lovely cladding, at least it isn't build on the same platform as the Honda Odyssey which limits its towing abilities and bed size.
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kastein posted:At least the Avalanche has an actual truck motor that faces the right direction and has some manner of tow/haul capability, but it's still a fake bullshit truck made for suburbanites who need to compensate more than a fullsize SUV will allow them to without the downsides of owning an actual truck. Yeah our Ridgeline has a transverse V6 but it is rated to tow 7000 lb... which is not like great but it's ok.
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What year is that? Everything I found listed it at 5k lbs.
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