Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
To me, my car is an investment in the fact that I need a vehicle that can do what I need to do, which includes get me to work, over the course of atleast 10 years. It's like buying a tool. And a good person will take care of thier tools. You lose your tools, you can't work. That's why Mac tools can sells stuff at 5x the cost of Craftsman which sells stuff for 5x more than Great Neck. That $5 socket set can cost you $500 worth of lost work when it breaks/isn't good enough/etc. to perform your required task.
If you're in a case where your car is part of your job, the looks of the car do matter. If someone pulled up in a banged up cab, you'd think less of that cab driver, right? You'd probably see if any other cab around is in better condition, and choose thier cab. Well, it's the same when someone is with a prospective client. The better care taken=percieved better care that will be taken of thier account.
While I don't think it's a good idea to take a $50k thing out in public and expect it to remain pristine, I think it's flat out fucknuttery to damage someone else's property intentially, or through just flat out apathy. Even when I drove a 1980 Plymouth Champ (which an insurance company totalled at $1400 when some old guy drove through me in a parking lot), I kept my doors from dinging other people's cars. When I was driving around a 1987 Volvo that I got for free that could hit a brick wall at 40MPH and keep running (Top Gear proved that), I still treated other cars with respect.
