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Post by pre65 on Nov 10, 2014 10:17:37 GMT
Can I start with 3 examples, feel free to add others.
ie how would you assess a person just from the car they drive. 
1) Aston Martin DB9
2) Bentley Flying Spur V8 (current model)
3) Mercedes sl600 (folding steel top models).
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Post by MartinT on Nov 10, 2014 10:29:26 GMT
Really, I wouldn't. You get nice people and tossers driving all manner of cars.
The only ones I avoid like the plague are cars driven by men in hats and small far-eastern brightly coloured boxes driven by elderly people, easily spotted as they have a maximum speed of 15mph and are accompanied by a long queue of cars behind them.
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Post by pre65 on Nov 10, 2014 10:35:25 GMT
and small far-eastern brightly coloured boxes driven by elderly people, easily spotted as they have a maximum speed of 15mph and are accompanied by a long queue of cars behind them.
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Post by MartinT on Nov 10, 2014 12:57:35 GMT
No, but where I live there are more of the former than the latter  |
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Post by zippy on Nov 10, 2014 13:10:21 GMT
Can I start with 3 examples, feel free to add others.
ie how would you assess a person just from the car they drive.
1) Aston Martin DB9
2) Bentley Flying Spur V8 (current model)
3) Mercedes sl600 (folding steel top models). All I could tell from those 3 is that they have an awful lot more money than me ! |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 10, 2014 15:25:44 GMT
I always like to see the car of the guys that come to see us at work. Suppliers and customers, actual and potential I lusted after a Porsche 928 for a long time, 2nd hand, but eventually decided this would wind up way too many customers and almost certainly be keyed on a regular basis Test drive of a customer's Saab 9000 2.3 Turbo put a big smile on my face so I got one of them Carries more printing too !  |
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Post by Chris on Nov 10, 2014 20:38:54 GMT
I don't play that game. Really they are nothing more than vulgar displays of wealth. No time for all that.
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Post by ChrisB on Nov 10, 2014 20:52:45 GMT
I think making judgments about people based on the car (or whatever) they own says rather more about the judge than the judgee.
I once told an employee of a new car dealership what I thought of him and why I would be buying a new car elsewhere, after he made assumptions about me, first of all based on the hire car that I drove into his car park and secondly, after I told him what I usually drive.
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Post by jammy on Nov 10, 2014 21:04:46 GMT
1) Wanker 2) Dickhead 3) Knobber All be it probably very wealthy W.D.K's.........Unless they stole them...!!! Or as John might have said - "Im just a Jealous Guy".  |
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Post by canetoad on Nov 10, 2014 22:29:52 GMT
I remember seeing Gordon Ramsay on Top Gear a few years ago. Clarkson reminded him he used to have a Bentley and wanted to know why he got rid of it. The reply was when Jordan pulled alongside him one day in one...
Have you ever seen a young attractive bloke driving a Ferrari that wasn't a footballer (although they all seem to drive Lambos these days)? I haven't! |
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Post by Chris on Nov 11, 2014 4:51:03 GMT
Well this threads going well... |
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Post by MikeMusic on Nov 11, 2014 8:52:57 GMT
I think making judgments about people based on the car (or whatever) they own says rather more about the judge than the judgee. I once told an employee of a new car dealership what I thought of him and why I would be buying a new car elsewhere, after he made assumptions about me, first of all based on the hire car that I drove into his car park and secondly, after I told him what I usually drive. Car salesmen - and most of the trade Rare to find a good guy in the motor trade |
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