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Originally Posted by StanT
That's funny, I drive a Honda CRV for that reason. I just wanted something to get me home when the weather was bad. It seemed the most practical choice.
If you want to pass judgement on my ride, I'll show up on my motorcycle.
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That's funny as all get out to me!
My wife owns a pretty black CRV, with all these extras she let me buy, on it.
Side cladding, mudguards, tailpipe "finisher," nice wheels, dark windows all 'round....and she just sees it as "A to B that looks cute."
Like you, also, I have my car (Mitsu Lancer), and my baby: 1986 Yamaha Maxim-X. ::coooes::
(In case the "we hate SUV" dudes see this, I should mention she averages 24mpg, and it's a LEV, so unless you top that: shut it.)
So does the car matter?
Hecks yes.
I fall in love with all different sorts of cars, for all the different personalities they have.
My car isn't quite an extension of my ego, per se. Rather, it's an expression of it. Should someone not like my car, I'd be fine with it. I don't ask people to like me for my car. But, I like it if I can share the love of the auto with them.
I love cars. I love minivans, I love jeeps, I love sedans, I love anything on wheels. Just let me drive it once!
When my wife met me, I drove a 1992 (this was in 2001, I think) Lincoln Mark VII. That bad boy had open exausts (it *did* have all the original, functional, cats) that exited on the sides. That car sounded amazing.
She thought I was a bit nuts, and I think the car clued her in. She drove the white 90-somthing Dodge Shadow her parents gave her to go to college with. I didn't much care what it was, but to answer the post's question, it mattered to me if it was at least maintained to some degree, and kept to my own cleanliness standards.
If your car's a pigsty, that's your business. However, I'll draw conclusions about you based on it. I'm open to them being disproved, but one has to start making decisions about how a person is, based on how they act. How they care for what they own is a pretty good inidcator of a lot of things. As the car is a very expensive purchase for most people, it's worth at least taking a gander at condition-wise.
The car is certainly not a totally great predictor of who they are, of course, but it's a peek into a person. Nothing more, nothing less.