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To: shades who wrote (29133)	4/6/2005 1:53:10 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

I miss my vehicles Grace sometimes, but I simply could no longer justify insurance, gas, payments and maintenance. For what some people pay for a car (in total) they could be driven every where they go, especially retired people who don't drive to work anymore. I have to tell you, my husband did have a nice shiny new truck when I met him. I don't know if it influenced my decision to date him, he was pretty attractive (he has a nice smile and he looks like the boy next door, clean and honest looking) even before I saw the car. A mini van usually makes a guy look like he's got a wife and kids at home he's hiding, hard to meet girls in a mini van. But if you drive a real flashy sports car most women think you are compensating for some other deficiency, so you can't win. Frankly, I think guys think girls put more emphasis on what they drive than they actually do, they see their car as related to wallet size (dick size). Just as most women think men put a lot of emphasis on their pretty faces....but it's usually not their faces that they are checking out. BTW guys who try to meet women from their cars are a little scary to women. You pick up hookers and other guys from a car. If you want to meet women and not be scary get a dog. I guarantee that you will meet more women than you can handle. Somehow a guy they'd run away from driving past them in a car becomes completely harmless with a lovable dog. I know this because all my former twenty something male assistants did the dog thing and they have assured me it works like a charm.

To: shades who wrote (29133)	4/6/2005 2:09:33 PM
From: J. P.	Respond to of 306849

Shades, you don't need to drop a lot of money to drive a luxury car. The trick is to buy about 5 years old and buy at the beginning of the body style, so the car appears newer. Be sure to have the car checked out if you're not mechanically inclined, and be sure the car has not been in an accident (easy with the vin number and autofax). For example, you can get a BMW 528i for 11K that looks identical to a 2003 525i which costs 40K. And these cars are engineered so much better, they last a long time if you have the oil changed and keep up with the maintenance. This when people are dropping 20-30k for new Fords and Chevy's that depreciate down 40% the first year of ownership.