not ashamed that your parents loved you, because they bought you a car?
pretty weird, don't you think. I am sure they loved you the same even without the cars! :rolleyes:

I had a shitt civic in college so I guess my parents hated me. :crying:

True! I'm 19 and i worked my heart out to afford this car, i've had the car for just two days and i've already had a couple people ask me if my parents bought me the car. I'll take it as a compliment though.

At least you are an adult now and graduated from the sh!t Civic to a mediocre Fit.

My father told me at 13 if I thought he was going to buy me a car, forget it! I started working and bought and sold 3 cars before I had a license. Kicked my parents out of the garage when I was 18 because my car was newer than theirs.

OP, yes they do but age has a factor in this also. In my early to mid twenties back in the early 80's I owned a 72 Vette then a 76 280Z. Young ladies whom I didn't know would come up to me all the time and strike up a conversation. When I owned a Toyota Corona before that, I was invisible.

In late 03, (age 45) I was one of the first here to get a G35 Coupe and now the Z (age 55), young ladies will look and a few have said "nice car" but not really looking to strike up a conversation. Oh chit, why'd I write this, I'm all depressed now :shakes head:

You must be doing something wrong...you only got me by a couple of years and its all good from teens to soccer moms...wait don't tell me it will all stop in two years!!!

I got that one a lot too. I just said no, I'm going to live to 150 so your argument is invalid.

Yes.

When I drove my Subaru, people expected me to be a flat billed hat wearing Ken Block worshiping Brotard. Now that I drive a Z, people are surprised I'm not Asian. Oh well.

What vehicle do you think has the least stereotypes associated with it?

No idea. I'm in TX, so the simple fact I'm not in a truck is out of the ordinary. Maybe a beige Camry?

:bowrofl: truck capital of the world yup, it annoys me sometimes seeing all these trucks driving around not actually carrying or hauling anything...

beige camry... yup I pretty much can't think of anything to stereotype about that car lol

My mom had a beige Camry. It was invisible. You could speed to your heart's content and never get stopped. If I ever decided to smuggle contraband I'd use one.

I've had several occasions where young girls, and I mean girls, like teenagers, say nice car. I know they're not looking at me. They just like the car. THen I had a neighbor lady telling my wife how she saw my car and said to her friend, "there goes a mid-life crisis". I smiled and laughed before I walked off.

I've heard more about the midlife crisis than anything else. Fact is, the midlife crisis was years ago when I bought the Mustang 5.0. The Z is just about getting back to what I've always loved. My second car was an MGA. My roommate had a TR4. We helped each other work on them and tune up the SU carbueretors and fix the Lucas wiring.

I've always liked sports cars. I had to drive a pickup for a few years while we were in the home remodeling phase. And that coincided with the Windstar van while in the kid raising phase. I guess people like to label you no matter what you drive. Our brains are hardwired to classify things into neat little boxes.