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11 May 2025, 5:14 pm

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If I met a woman with a car with a bad smell because she sometimes drive around her dog in, it would make her less attractive.


I agree, dog ownership is a turn-off. :nerdy:


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11 May 2025, 5:19 pm

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To the opposite sex? Yes, an expensive car is a symbol and recognition that you may be a good provider. Which is totally valid.
It could also be a sign that the person has a cr@p ton of debt or that they spend most all their money on their car.


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I do have a follow up question. Is the absence of a motor vehicle seen as unattractive? Even when I have the means to purchase a nice car outright.
I think it could be seen as unattractive to some. Some might assume that you cant afford a car, don't need a car like because you don't work or go out much, that you cant drive, or that have problems driving often. Plus some might think that your dependent on other people like family & friends to go places which could potentially hinder your ability to go out on your own but that assumption would be more of a problem if your area doesn't have a decent public transportation system. I cant drive because my vision is too bad & I grew up in a rural area that had no public transportation system & that forced me to be dependent on my parents to go most anywhere till I moved out at 30.


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11 May 2025, 5:29 pm

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I do have a follow up question. Is the absence of a motor vehicle seen as unattractive? Even when I have the means to purchase a nice car outright.


Likely yes, at least to some.

Having the money to afford a car doesn't mean you're not going to bum rides off of the car owner, because you still lack a car. Having any car is better than having no car, at least from a utilitarian perspective. Being able to afford many cars but still lacking a car doesn't make a friend or partner feel better about being your chauffeur.


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11 May 2025, 5:29 pm

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^Maybe to you. I love a lady with a smelly set of wheels.

I once dated a woman with schizophrenia whose VW Beetle smelt like an ashtray. I didn't care. She was very nice to me.


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11 May 2025, 5:30 pm

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If I met a woman with a car with a bad smell because she sometimes drive around her dog in, it would make her less attractive.


I agree, dog ownership is a turn-off. :nerdy:

Now you've seriously antagonized TP. Better you than me.


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11 May 2025, 5:31 pm

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^Maybe to you. I love a lady with a smelly set of wheels.

I once dated a woman with schizophrenia whose VW Beetle smelt like an ashtray. I didn't care. She was very nice to me.


Sounds like a keeper.


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11 May 2025, 5:31 pm

@OP if your Fiesta has a manual transmission then women will think you're a Chad.


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11 May 2025, 5:35 pm

^ I see now, it's not the lack of car that's a turn off. It's the assumptions that go with it. I suppose by not having a car I can avoid dating someone whose superficial.


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11 May 2025, 5:40 pm

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@OP if your Fiesta has a manual transmission then women will think you're a Chad.


Chris is in the UK. Manual transmission is standard here. No one is impressed.


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11 May 2025, 6:15 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
Not inherently, but it's not a negative.

It suggests a level of having your s**t together that some carless people haven't achieved, it suggests one is capable of functioning as a normal adult and achieving milestones associated with being a fully-functioning adult and it suggests one has the income to cover the costs associated with car ownership.


This.

When I was on a popular dating website many years ago, I saw many profiles of women who outright said "my date must have a car" (sometimes accompanied with "for practical purposes" but other times it was unspoken).

A lot of women don't want to be arranging a date with a guy who might take a while to turn up to a date due to late public transport, or she might even want to be taken around/be the passenger in a potential boyfriends car.

For a lot of people, a car is seen as a milestone of being an adult, particularly for normies and the only excuse one might have for this is that they live in a city centre with excellent public transport links and/or they might be forsaking a car for environmental reasons. But aside from that, women are probably going to think negatively of a man not having a car. It doesn't have to be a nice car either, just... a car. Although there are materialistic women who want a dude with a nice car, also.



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11 May 2025, 10:18 pm

jamie0.0 wrote:
^ I see now, it's not the lack of car that's a turn off. It's the assumptions that go with it. I suppose by not having a car I can avoid dating someone whose superficial.


I'm not sure the concerns it raises are all superficial, even if some might be. nick007 raised a bunch of reasonable concerns.

I think you're engaging in an ego-defence by acting like the flaw must lay with people who wouldn't consider you romantically, rather than considering they might have a point. It doesn't mean that what they consider a deal-breaker should be for everyone, only that it's a pretty reasonable one.


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11 May 2025, 10:42 pm

I think a good personality makes a person more attractive than a car does.


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11 May 2025, 10:44 pm

@funeralxempire ^it is possible the comment made me defensive, I agree he did make some good points.
I was thinking that if someone thinks you're a jobless freeloader just from not having a car, they are likely to be superficial, as they demonstrate that they judge a book by it's cover.


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11 May 2025, 11:12 pm

Other than supposed maturity and milestone if
and if it's actually hard earned... But one cannot simply know that at a glance.

I'm sure, at a glance, if you really cared so much, having a car also can suggest that you can be convenient.


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11 May 2025, 11:36 pm

MaxE wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
BillyTree wrote:
If I met a woman with a car with a bad smell because she sometimes drive around her dog in, it would make her less attractive.


I agree, dog ownership is a turn-off. :nerdy:

Now you've seriously antagonized TP.
What makes you think that?

We all have our tastes and preferences. There’s nothing wrong with that.


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12 May 2025, 1:23 am

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I still have a ford fiesta from when I got it in 2018 and seems to have gone rather well since having it despite the fact it was pre-owned but I don't know how a car makes someone look or feel attractive. I don't really care much that my car unlike others hasn't got a sat nav system, my phone attached to play music or the latest gadgets etc. I know some people use their cars like status symbols. I just use it sometimes and I don't go out driving in it much anyway. I don't even take it to work as I only live about 20 minutes away from my workplace so I walk there.

I prefer my dates to drive cars like Fords Hondas and Toyotas and maybe Suburus. My kind of date would be majorly turned off if I had a new car of any kind or a something like a Corvette or Lambo or Ferrari. I would prefer my girlfriend to drive a 30 year old Toyota Corolla than a brand new Jeep. A lot of people will be attracted to a guy that has a lambo but really most financially successful guys drive stuff like Ford and Toyota and Honda. I just think someone who drives a Lambo is in a mountain of debt most likely and that is not atrractive at all to me. Most young people dont drive fancy sports cars. Most people where i live would not date someone who does not drive although stuff like Uber and Lyft is making less so.