Decades of watching car ads on TV must have addled (almost) everyone's brains.
As pointed out above, cars actually have very little to do with the process of attraction but men seem to be in denial over this.
Two friends of mine who have been - and are - very successful with the opposite sex can't even drive!
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Knowing many of the opposing sex, I often find that they find colours quite important - black is never considered a bad one, and is probably the only one where a consensus is reached.
As to the car, I've felt that the Top Gear Cool Wall will inevitably be quite a good indicator - French and Italian small (Punto/206 etc) cars are favoured, with the odd 'discreetly'-pretty German (Audi/VW) thrown in for good measure.
IMHO they do like Focus a lot yet not older Fiesta or Corsa - I'm told they like the Focus styling and odd dashboard design.
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Knowing many of the opposing sex, I often find that they find colours quite important>>
'Opposing sex'? Blimey, am I glad I'm out of the rat-race...
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A friend of mine, a very vain chap, used to have a Mercedes C200 summat or other as a company car. He changed jobs, and was on 'gardening leave' for a month. Obviously he had to give the Merc back, so we thought (naively) he'd either use buses, buy a banger or hire something modest. What did he actually do? He hired the exact same Merc at a colossal cost because: "he didn't want people laughing at him". I sat him down and asked if he really thought i) anyone would notice ii) and if they did, weren't they a shallow vacuous moron who didn't matter? but he didn't get it at all. He honestly thinks sane normal women are impressed by such things. They're not. I asked my girlfriend recently what her favourite car was and she replied "a blue flying one". I rest my case.
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I will now let you into the secret of pulling girls. Shed loads of them.
Get a dog. Not some vicious snarling male brute, but a gentle natured doe eyed sweet girly dog, not small but medium size.
1/ Tie your doe eyed dog to a raling outside waitrose, and wander in and out the shop making a fuss of it loudly along the lines of "There there honey I wont be long"
Homemaker type women will fall at your feet on the spot
2/ Take your dog to the park, wait in car with dog till woman turns up to exercise (or if lucky with another dog). Bundle dog out the car and play with it.
Athletic and fit type women will fall at your feet.
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the secret of pulling girls. Shed loads of them.
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tvm - so you are in to this "dogging" malarkey. does it make it any difference now that you have the van rather than the goona? take care, news-of-the-world are looking for you.
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Not quite sure you have the dogging concept quite right.
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Stu I will now let you into the secret of pulling girls. Shed loads of them.
This is excellent advice.........
But after you've pulled (so to speak), where do you abandon the dog without appearing too heartless?
Jacks
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It would be times like that that you'd need a saloon.
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FiFi is devastated that you want to put her in the boot.
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Cars have absolutely nothing to with pulling power, however, if you?re prone to having endless strings of casual affairs with girls at work then your choice of car is very important cos that?s more often than not where you?ll end up doing it. For this I recommend large comfy French saloons and certainly not cars like Jaguars with wide transmission tunnels making it difficult to make a "connection".
Also worth working for a company with large underground car park where you?ll often meet two or three other couples doing the same thing.
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For about six months I worked for the council in the social services dept. I was 24, had no car, lived in a council flat in Lambeth and went to work by bus or bike. Most of the team were girls under 30, some from Oz on their way round Europe.
I went out with two, one after the other one night, and from then on managed to keep them both happy, and apart, just, for about a year!
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"Tie your doe eyed dog to a raling outside Waitrose, .............. Homemaker type women will fall at your feet on the spot"
Can't help wondering what type of woman do you get if you tie up your dog at Poundland.
Y2K+4 is right on colours. Typical conversation:
SWMBO: "So and so has a really nice new car"
RTB: "Really my dear? What sort?"
SWMBO: " A red one"
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Morris Traveller. Well, it was the car I had when I met my wife (BTW this was 1988, not 1958 - the Traveller was not the newest thing on the forecourt).
She clearly saw that my choice of vehicle reflected in the inner man...............
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This is not a joke - it really happens.
Some years ago my partner (accompanied by me but I was distracted at the time - honestly) went to Halford's to buy a replacement door mirror.
Salesman: What car is it?
SWMBO: A Metro.
Salesman: What model?
SWMBO: Brown.
Salesman: No, what particular model?
SWMBO: Pause...The one with the gold stripe.
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A few years ago, having driven Vauxhalls for a large slice of my life (well, at least I had a twin-carb Firenza at one point... How sad is that?) I switched to a navy-blue Peugeot 205 and was told by my current girlfriend that at last I had acquired a "sexy" car. Make of that what you will!
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BBD - seems like your ideal car might be the previous shape 5-door Honda Civic with the dash-mounted gearstick and "walk through" cabin. Perhaps what every Romeo should really have is an MPV. Mmm, just think about how impressed the girls would be ...
Cars were never really a factor in my love life, but living away from home from age 17 and having my own room were. It's kind of irrelevant in any case, I've been with the same girl since I was 19 - that's what college romances and shared accommodation do for you. Having said that, I must admit to being surprised recently at the enthusiastic reaction just to a picture of my Harley trike - makes me think I should have had one of those when I was 17. In fact, this would seem to indicate that the best way to impress the girls is to keep a photo of a Harley and show it them saying "I've got one of these". Then they will know how cool you really are, as they climb aboard your Space Wagon.
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andymc
Vroom, vroom - mmm, doughnuts ...
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>Also worth working for a company with large underground car park where you?ll often meet two or three other couples doing the same thing.
Most of the underground carparks are monitored by cctv cameras which provides lots of amusement for the security staff who monitor them. It is also fun to check the footage on the cameras in the office after a Xmas party or even a Friday night out. It is amazing the number of couples who head back to the office after the pubs close for a bit of extra marital.
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I've since been having a think and without being too forward,
is Miss Robinson single?
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Adam, old son, are you sure you're on the right website? ;)
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Not 100% no. But when an opportunity is there....
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You want something different, I had a Renault 30. It was rusty but compared to all the dire Novas and Fiestas that everyone else had, it was the car that everyone wanted to go in. And of course the young, handsome and intelligent driver played its part as well ;-)
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I thought this was about you buying a car for daughters or something.
I'm past caring about what people of either sex think of my car (Otherwise, would I be getting a Toledo?!)
The bike is where I have fun now, car have past into mundane A - B monotony for me.
Thankyou traffic, speed cameras, fuel prices, idiotic, 40mph everwhere drivers...you've spoiled motoring for me.
2 wheels for fun, now.
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"And of course the young, handsome and intelligent driver played its part as well ;-)"
the taxi driver you mean?
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I agree with TVM - a dog works better than any car.
polishing your shoes also works - but not to a mirror shine - that will probably get you a slap :-)
Changing the subject slightly - what car makes a woman more attractive ? I can't think of many, except maybe an Elise or a Caterham. Even then, a beer or two is likely to be more effective
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"what car makes a woman more attractive"
I love women in powerful, expensive cars, no preferences as to a make or model. I?ve got a thing for young mothers in 4WDs too.
Biggest turn-off for me is a car full of gonks, teddies, kinder egg toys and stick-on Garfields. Makes me want to slap them across the face.
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you want to slap garfield?
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Actually Adam, since last weekend Miss Robinson is single! She'll be behind the bar on Saturday evening, so if you're in the Reading area...
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I've since been having a think and without being too forward, is Miss Robinson single?
Surely the question you ought to be asking is whether her stomach is strong enough to cope with the sight of shimmering beige? ;)
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