Should women be concerned if a man drives a volvo station wagon?

[newt]

Be debt free - it's wonderful.

 

I am actually doing both at the same time and won;t be debt free until Dec 5 2017

 

by that time I would have been on my job 4 years and should a nice savings account and no more debt

[newt]

I don't have a car either. It's not so bad. Do you live in a place with public transit?

 

Yes NYC where there are cabs, trains, and subways

[loveweary11]

I don't have a car either. It's not so bad. Do you live in a place with public transit?

 

Same. Chose to stop owning a car last spring. I haven't even needed to rent one either.

 

Last night an uber from Wynwood to South Beach cost me $6.95.

 

I'm not sure owning a car is even any cheaper than that, given car payments/equity, gas, use/excise tax, maintenance, insurance.

[losangelena]

Same. Chose to stop owning a car last spring. I haven't even needed to rent one either.

 

Last night an uber from Wynwood to South Beach cost me $6.95.

 

I'm not sure owning a car is even any cheaper than that, given car payments/equity, gas, use/excise tax, maintenance, insurance.

 

It totally isn't! I have a friend who just dropped $320 on regular scheduled maintenance in ONE DAY, never mind monthly car payment, insurance, gas, parking costs, potential parking tickets, and heaven forbid anything happen and then it's body work and deductibles and a hike in premiums.

 

L.A. is not a friendly city to those without cars. However, I've learned to make it manageable. Between buses, trains, Ubers, my friends and my feet, it's been fine. It's a different lifestyle, for sure, and a challenge at times, but overall, it's not so bad.

[newt]

Same. Chose to stop owning a car last spring. I haven't even needed to rent one either.

 

Last night an uber from Wynwood to South Beach cost me $6.95.

 

I'm not sure owning a car is even any cheaper than that, given car payments/equity, gas, use/excise tax, maintenance, insurance.

 

Do you analyze the look of the driver before you get in a uber car? Just seems like I can be getting into a car with a nut but with a taxi I know that is not the case

[newt]

I don't have a car either. It's not so bad. Do you live in a place with public transit?

 

Plus i live in Manhattan and it's a fee to park

[losangelena]

Do you analyze the look of the driver before you get in a uber car? Just seems like I can be getting into a car with a nut but with a taxi I know that is not the case

 

I have never had a problem with an uber driver. I've had a couple of stupid ones, but no one unsafe so far.

[xcupid]

I promote the frugal lifestyle

 

Nothing wrong with that. I hope you find work soon.

[JGirl83]

Is the problem with the volvo part or the station wagon part or the 10 years old part?

I dont drive and i know very little about cars so i cant even picture a volvo station wagon.

But my brother drives a volvo and he knows a lot more about cars than i do. Volvos are supposed to be safe and family friendly. Thats all i know.

I couldnt care less what he drives or whether he owns a car or not.

I live in a big city with great public transport though.

[newt]

Nothing wrong with that. I hope you find work soon.

 

I;m working now, I am just trying to build savings after being unemployed so long.

[alphamale]

So far the guy is a confirmed homosexual, kidnapper, rapist, nazi and possibly a pedophile.

you forgot terrorist

[sandylee1]

Why would the type of car a man drives concern you? If you wish to draw some views apart his personality from the car he drives.. that's one thing.... but concern? I can't wrap my head around the thinking behind the question.

[losangelena]

Alas, I wonder if Bobbi is ever going to come back to this thread.

[mattelipstick]

Alas, I wonder if Bobbi is ever going to come back to this thread.

 

I don't think she ever comes back to her threads. Seems like starting threads is more like a journal for her than anything else.

[Rejected Rosebud]

I promote the frugal lifestyle

Around here where we live there are a bunch of young people who call themselves "freegans" and they subsist on only free stuff, mostly the leftover food from restaurants. They are also masterful dumpster divers!

[Rejected Rosebud]

Or, he could be a sensible, frugal man of Scandinavian descent who values safety and doesn't want to waste money on a car payment.

I bet he doesn't even own that car. He really has a Sebring convertible but he's tired of all the girls oohing and aahing over it and how much $$$ he must have. So he borrowed his housekeeper's ride.

[SwordofFlame]

Well at least you know he isn't compensating for some inadequacy with his car...

[losangelena]

I bet he doesn't even own that car. He really has a Sebring convertible but he's tired of all the girls oohing and aahing over it and how much $$$ he must have. So he borrowed his housekeeper's ride.

 

You lost me at Sebring, lol.

[loverboy69]

If there were two hot guys who were twins and one drove a brand new high end muscle car and the other drove the old beat up Volvo stationwagon... and you had to go on a blind date with one of them which one would you choose without knowing either of them?

 

I'd say that most women would go with the guy in the muscle car. It's not a politically correct thing to say but you know...

 

Is it shallow? Maybe a little? Would most women go with the muscle car guy anyway? Yep.

 

Some men take great pride in their cars. It's their way of showing the world who they are. You ladies do the same thing with $1,000 purses, expensive hair do's and nails.

 

Yeah I can see how the old Volvo stationwagon would be a little bit of a turn off for some people. I'm not saying it's the polite or moral thing to do but I'm not your grandma.

[Charlie Harper]

Love my Audi TT classic. Where do i fit?

 

Gay dentist crowd? LOL Just kidding aren't stereotypes a drag?

 

I'm a big car enthusiast. I'm recently engaged, but I went through a lot of cars during my single life and two of them were wagons. I like the space they provide and the better performance they typically offer over SUVs since they are lower to the ground and have less body roll. With that said, the two wagons I owned were an Audi S4 Avant and an Audi RS6 Avant, two of the most high performance wagons ever to come to the US. They were monsters on the race track. I loved them both, even though I did get a few strange looks and comments as a single guy driving a wagon.

 

If I was dating now, I wonder how I would be perceived by some (not all) women in respect to my vehicle choice. My fiance calls my 1991 Acura the "old, decrepit car". It's a 1991 Acura NSX, a two seat mid-engined supercar in perfect condition with less than 30,000 miles. It's also bright red. Does that make me a mid-life crisis sports car driver or someone too poor to afford a newer car?

 

I used to have an Audo RS4 Avant TOTAL monster!!!. In that year I could get my hand on a New Beetle RSI (there are only 12 in my country), I have kept it and its now 13 years old! My mom and everyone else tell why I don't sell the ol´BUG, but its a fantastic car handles like a dream, I have never seen another one while driving it and yes 99.5% of women think its a "tuned" beetle LOL.

 

I DRIVE A GOLF SPORTWAGEN as a daily car, and its fantastic! bikes, canoes, anything fits inside and it very luxurious, I am so happy that I might change it next year to a Golf R Wagon...

 

Funny because when I date someone on the wagon, there are some weird comments about it, when I use the Beetle there are complaints that its too jumpy, hard, and noisy... they don't know how much the "tuned" Beetle costs LOL.

 

 

Volvo station wagons have got plenty of room in the back, too, if you know what I'm sayin'.

 

Its fun everyone and then to do naughty things on the back part....

 

If someone focus too much on what you have or what you drive, its a sourcing of gold digging behaviour... just saying´

[Rejected Rosebud]

If there were two hot guys who were twins and one drove a brand new high end muscle car and the other drove the old beat up Volvo stationwagon... and you had to go on a blind date with one of them which one would you choose without knowing either of them?

 

I'd say that most women would go with the guy in the muscle car. It's not a politically correct thing to say but you know...

I SO SO SO would not! A guy with a muscle car is a complete turnoff to me!! And an old Volvo has potential coolness factor. Way more than a muscle car. I live in the northwest. Maybe that explains everything.

[MidwestUSA]

Did that model come as a woodie? If so, I'm in, especially if the base color is olive green. Surf boards and roller blades in the back, a little Jan and Dean on the eight track. Some Bartles and James wine coolers. Yep.

[Truth34]

A turn off??? What!

 

What about just an older car, not all muscled up?

[RedRobin]

And I'm talking about the ones that came out 10 years ago...I don't mind trucks or compact cars, but a car that looks like a station wagon?

 

 

WTF? You have got to be kidding me...

 

 

If the guy is self-sufficient and debt free, I don't care what he drives. In fact, lots of self-sufficient, debt free guys drive older cars. That's how they got to be debt free.

 

 

Heck, I drive a 14 year old Subaru. Spending tons of money on very depreciable assets like cars is about one of the most stupid financial mistakes anyone can make.

[joseb]

Aside from it being terribly effeminate, that's the ultimate 'soccer mom' car. Blech.

 

Honestly, people read this much into a frigging car??

 

I haven't owned a car in years. Complete waste of money, causing constant parking frustration and an excuse to avoid exercising

 

If I did have one it would probably have space to fit a surfboard or a bike, and not be expensive. Which could be why this guy picked his. Or any other reason. Regardless, not worth bothering about.