What do you consider a "manly" automobile?

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Jesus...I thought this might be a discussion of cool cars...turns out it's the opposite, with a smattering of
1) Minivan drivers justifying their vans as "manly" because their wife told them to buy it
and
2) One of the most effeminate posters on all of AT arbitrarily decreeing what he considers to be manly.

Pretty much the exact opposite what the OP thinks is manly, is actually manly.

Here's a perfect example:

 

[NAC]

My first thought is:
Every time I see a man in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think: small penis.
Uh… when I see a woman in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think also think: small penis.

I'm a man, I don't give a crap what others think. My current cars are practical: a relatively cheap Mazda 5 small minivan, and a 1996 Ford Ranger. Most of my co-workers have BMWs and similar. I really like the new VW Beetle convertible, and absolutely love Miatas. My next car, if I stop commuting by train, will likely be a used Mini convertible. My If my car opinions and choices affect your opinion of me, I don't give a f**k.

 

[pauldun170]

Jesus...I thought this might be a discussion of cool cars...turns out it's the opposite, with a smattering of
1) Minivan drivers justifying their vans as "manly" because their wife told them to buy it
and
2) One of the most effeminate posters on all of AT arbitrarily decreeing what he considers to be manly.

Pretty much the exact opposite what the OP thinks is manly, is actually manly.

Here's a perfect example:

Bah,
Only someone's grandma would say a Camaro is manly.
Completely poser mobile in terms of manliness.

Way too many airbags. Way to many safety features.
For F's sake that things has baby seat anchors in the back.

When you are done breastfeeding, come back with a proper mans car.

 

[SSSnail]

Haha...you are funny. Is that you Alky?

He's trying to be, but he doesn't even lift!

 

[skyking]

My first thought is:
Every time I see a man in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think: small penis.
Uh… when I see a woman in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think also think: small penis.

I'm a man, I don't give a crap what others think. My current cars are practical: a relatively cheap Mazda 5 small minivan, and a 1996 Ford Ranger. Most of my co-workers have BMWs and similar. I really like the new VW Beetle convertible, and absolutely love Miatas. My next car, if I stop commuting by train, will likely be a used Mini convertible. My If my car opinions and choices affect your opinion of me, I don't give a f**k.

LOL, I have both the beetle and the taller 4wd truck. I buy for what it does, not how it is perceived by insecure males.
My truck is not lifted but dang, it is a little tall. I got some nerf bars for climbing in and out. The PO was a logging outfit and they broke down the edge of the seats sliding in and out. It has cork holes in the door threshholds and bumpers, small dents and rashes, and in general I could not be happier. I don't have to worry about a little scratch here or dent there, it is preconditioned

 

[PricklyPete]

He's trying to be, but he doesn't even lift!

He does remind me of a more effeminate Alchy. Maybe he is Alchy off steroids.

 

[JMapleton]

http://www.insure.com/car-insurance/cars-that-attract-ladies.html

We are using inductive reasoning. Hence, the statements used in the debate are not true or false, but rather are probably true or false. Your anecdotes are a weaker class of evidence than a survey.

You don't know. Well, you are only one person out of a 100 million or so, and your network of friends and acquiatances might come out to a few hundred people. Maybe 1,000 if you are extremely sociable. Your sample size is too small and it is self-evident that you will not check yourself to not commit confirmation bias when collecting data.

Luxury cars. That depends. Having the money can attract the girls, but male then must filter out the scum from the girls who are fit for a long-term relationship.

Crossovers. Lol, if a girl is attracted to this bizzare fusions, I'd like to see it. No, that chick with that guy in the RX350, having Matthew Mcconaughey driving an MKC, or driving a Range Rover slower than a dog in a European city is just marketing. All lipstick on a pig.

I don't that survey is accurate to the caliber of female I'm thinking about. You cannot just ask a "1,000 women" what cars are attractive.

I'm talking about high caliber ladies. Not sunburned 40 year old highschool dropout hillbilly women.

Find me 1,000 educated, gorgeous, classy, and interesting ladies. They will pick the luxury car or the European sports car.

 

[hans007]

What happened to your M-Sport?

valet guy at work, was backing it out of stacked parking and clipped the front bumper on a pickup truck and tore the left side off, so i'm in a rental car while they fix it

on the bright side , my bumper was scraped up on the bottom and had a scrape on the side so itll be brand new looking. on the not as cool side, there were like 12 m-sport bumpers in the entire US with the parking sensor holes, so it took a while to get parts (car has been at the shop for ~10 days, many of those days just waiting on parts).

the beetle BTW is not a bad car btw. 1.8 Turbo with 170hp and DSG. same power train as a golf or A3 on mqb platform. my choices were beetle or hyundai elantra rental car. beetle was the way better choice.

so to further this thread. they make a beetle R which is basically a GTI. i'd think that would be a pretty unique car for a guy to drive right?

 

[halik]

I had this discussion with someone recently. You have to word this carefully because when defining a "manly" automobile, you have to first define what is "manly." In that discussion, feelings can be hurt and egos can be bruised when we all (including myself) come to realize we have not lived up to the ideal of what is a "man."

To be "manly", in my definition, is to have the ideal mixture of class/sophistication and ruggedness/toughness.

Very few people in today's society live up to this ideal. I will say myself, I do not consider myself yet a "real man." I have not yet made millions of dollars or climbed mountains or influenced public opinion in some grand way.

With your most idealistic definition of a man, what would be the ideal car for the manliest of men? Name a specific make and model.

Feel free to post yours and refute mine or others suggestions.

I will post mine after this post.

M3, bro. Obviously.

 

[Sulaco]

Used M3, bro. Obviously.

FTFY. Bruh.

 

[Auric]

Pretty much the exact opposite what the OP thinks is manly, is actually manly.

Here's a perfect example:

Childish. Actually the type of poster-car a child admires before they grow up and/or develop reasoning.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Childish. Actually the type of poster-car a child admires before they grow up and/or develop reasoning.

If that's childish then I don't ever want to grow up. Now if only I could afford one....

 

[AdamK47]

I don't that survey is accurate to the caliber of female I'm thinking about. You cannot just ask a "1,000 women" what cars are attractive.

I'm talking about high caliber ladies. Not sunburned 40 year old highschool dropout hillbilly women.

Find me 1,000 educated, gorgeous, classy, and interesting ladies. They will pick the luxury car or the European sports car.

Your view of the world is a fascinating one.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Your view of the world is a fascinating one.

My wife generally finds pickup truck drivers to be some of the most obnoxious douchebags on the planet and she wouldn't look twice at a muscle car, you'd be more successful picking up men in a muscle car.

She would be more impressed by a high-end luxury car or an Italian sports car.

She does like my hybrid though.

 

[PricklyPete]

My wife generally finds pickup truck drivers to be some of the most obnoxious douchebags on the planet and she wouldn't look twice at a muscle car, you'd be more successful picking up men in a muscle car.

She would be more impressed by a high-end luxury car or an Italian sports car.

She does like my hybrid though.

Your wife sounds just as vapid as the guys who drive a pickup (or any vehicle for that matter) because they think it makes them manly.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Your wife sounds just as vapid as the guys who drive a pickup (or any vehicle for that matter) because they think it makes them manly.

Dude, just because she's not impressed by trucks doesn't make her vapid.

Maybe if you guys wouldn't put trucknuts on them or huge lifts she wouldn't think you're a bunch of overcompensating morons with tiny penile units. :biggrin:

 

[PricklyPete]

Dude, just because she's not impressed by trucks doesn't make her vapid.

Maybe if you guys wouldn't put trucknuts on them or huge lifts she wouldn't think you're a bunch of overcompensating morons with tiny penile units. :biggrin:

That is not what I said...never said it was her dislike of trucks.

She thinks some guys are "douches" because they like trucks, but she apparently is "classy" because she likes guys if they drive luxury vehicles.

Her behavior is no more impressive than guys who think they are special because of the vehicle they drive. Both behaviors are pretty pathetic.

I drive my legs each day, so I just shove the truck nuts down my pants.

 

[AdamK47]

My wife generally finds pickup truck drivers to be some of the most obnoxious douchebags on the planet and she wouldn't look twice at a muscle car, you'd be more successful picking up men in a muscle car.

She would be more impressed by a high-end luxury car or an Italian sports car.

She does like my hybrid though.

Or you can be like me and just not care what impresses other people. I drive a Malibu look-alike from Australia. It makes me happy. My daily driver is a Spark. It's not going to impress anyone ever.

 

[Subyman]

Can't we have fun with this topic instead of everyone getting defensive?

I think a manly vehicle is probably one that gets the job done, is well kept, and likely something that represents something important to the man. I'd love to have my old 1995 Tahoe back (it was my first car.) If I still had that in my 40's and it was in near perfect condition then that would be pretty manly.

 

[JulesMaximus]

That is not what I said...never said it was her dislike of trucks.

She thinks some guys are "douches" because they like trucks, but she apparently is "classy" because she likes guys if they drive luxury vehicles.

Her behavior is no more impressive than guys who think they are special because of the vehicle they drive. Both behaviors are pretty pathetic.

I drive my legs each day, so I just shove the truck nuts down my pants.

WHAH!!! Your wife isn't impressed by trucks! WHAH WHAH WHAH!!!

She is classy actually. She married me after all.

 

[Torn Mind]

I don't that survey is accurate to the caliber of female I'm thinking about. You cannot just ask a "1,000 women" what cars are attractive.

I'm talking about high caliber ladies. Not sunburned 40 year old highschool dropout hillbilly women.

Find me 1,000 educated, gorgeous, classy, and interesting ladies. They will pick the luxury car or the European sports car.

40 years olds don't grow out of the tastes formed in their 20s. It is just that few men stick to them due to aging. The survey did not exclusively select high school dropouts, when are an exceedingly minor proportion of the population. And hill billy. Some fine southern and Midwestern ladies have been born in a hillybilly area.

They will pick the boys with the proper social skills and those blessed with looks similar to theirs. Game is all about communication one-on-one. A car is a poor substitute for actual skills and a way with words. Education is a mere red herring generated by the female to stymie males.

 

[PricklyPete]

WHAH!!! Your wife isn't impressed by trucks! WHAH WHAH WHAH!!!

She is classy actually. She married me after all.

I'm sure your wife is classy.

 

[JMapleton]

40 years olds don't grow out of the tastes formed in their 20s. It is just that few men stick to them due to aging. The survey did not exclusively select high school dropouts, when are an exceedingly minor proportion of the population. And hill billy. Some fine southern and Midwestern ladies have been born in a hillybilly area.

They will pick the boys with the proper social skills and those blessed with looks similar to theirs. Game is all about communication one-on-one. A car is a poor substitute for actual skills and a way with words. Education is a mere red herring generated by the female to stymie males.

.........Huh?

 

[JackBurton]

My first thought is:
Every time I see a man in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think: small penis.
Uh… when I see a woman in a raised pickup or jeep with huge tires, I think also think: small penis.

I'm a man, I don't give a crap what others think. My current cars are practical: a relatively cheap Mazda 5 small minivan, and a 1996 Ford Ranger. Most of my co-workers have BMWs and similar. I really like the new VW Beetle convertible, and absolutely love Miatas. My next car, if I stop commuting by train, will likely be a used Mini convertible. My If my car opinions and choices affect your opinion of me, I don't give a f**k.

I think you just like thinking of penis.

 

[JackBurton]

Childish. Actually the type of poster-car a child admires before they grow up and/or develop reasoning.

That's just some bullshit excuse people make when they get older, have kids and give up on life. That's also when they get a mini-van and convince themselves they've made good decisions in life and are happy.

Fact is, sports cars are what MOST men want as a kid (Camaro, Mustang, Vette, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc), but then they get older and their "prioities change" meaning, "I accidentally had a kid/kids, then had to get married, now my wife says we need a practical car, and I don't have the money to buy the car I always wanted as a kid. Basically, my dreams have died....but I'm happy with my life?"