OT: What do you do for a living? What do you drive? Social pressure?

1. Pastor
2. Minivans . . . Kia & Isuzu (Honda with Isuzu nameplate)
3. Complicated. Yes & No.

1. School Counselor

2. 2011 Lexus CT (40+ mpg city/highway!!)

3. None, hence why I drive a hybrid hatchback.

 

Don't really care one way or the other about thread topics, but what is this all about anyway?

Without a doubt.

1- Network Administration/ IT support

2- 13 year old F-150. Its paid for, and dependable

3- None at all. And if there was "pressure" from my peers, Id stop talking to them

1. Utility billing

2. 2010 Ford Fusion (nicest car I've driven in decades)

3. Peer pressure?  Nah, I happily drove a Kia Rio for a few years.

1. Actuary

2. Cadillac CTS.  Bought it used at 2 years old, 25k miles on it.  Paid it off in 13 months.

3. "Actuary" and "social" are two words that do not go together very often.

So I picked not for fun-to-drive but for reliability and minimum cost to own over the whole lifetime (insurance, gas, repairs, etc.). My first car was a 1992 Toyota Camry that I drove for almost 19 years :) As I told my sister when she was looking, "Keep in mind I didn't choose my car to affirm my self-worth, flaunt my wealth, status or style, or display my desirability. I picked it to get me from Point A to Point B every day." Now, I'm a software engineer driving a 2005 Prius (my wife has the 2010 version for child transportation). As to peer pressure, nope, not even when I was younger. It frustrated my parents to no end, but life is way too short to spend any of it apologizing for what you like and dislike.

1.  President

2.  Skateboard

3.  I am the POTUS, I eat social pressure for breakfast!

1. Taxi Driver/Political Activist/Aspiring Secret Service Agent

2. Yellow Checker Cab at Work/No Other Car

3. Pressure? Ha! You talkin’ to me about PRESSURE?

1.  Fly FIshing Guide  2.  2011 Ford F150 Supercrew  3.  Not really...  I use my truck for work; and it doesn't hurt to have a nice clean rig for my clients to ride in.  

1. Software Engineer

2. '14 Mercedes E350, '03 Jaguar Vanden Plas, '04 Subaru Outback wagon.

3. None at all.

 

I really like cars.

1. Geotechnical Engineer

2. 2005 Ford F150 4x4 w/ 175,000 miles

3. Based on No. 2, what do you think?

1. CTO

2. Porsche, Tesla

3. I don't really care what others think, I just like cars. Especially the ones from Stuttgart.

1. I get paid to eat lemons and crap buckeyes.

2. On rainy days I drive a 4Runner. On sunny days a Sky Redline. On days when my wife isn't looking I drive her '59 Austin Healey Sprite.

3. Somewhere around 40 social pressure became less significant and trying to find a plan to put two kids through schools an retire someday took precedent. I don't much care what the Joneses are doing. We have friends without cars and friends that own Lamborghinis.

!. Student

2. None

3. I go to a compettive school, so yea there is a bit of social pressure

1. Preschool Director 2. Volvo C70 3. No

1. Preschool Director
2. Volvo C70 convertible
3. Made a deal with wife that I would get rid of the family '62 Tempest convertible sitting unmoving in the garage in return for family consent to buy unpractical car, since enough practical cars already in family. I wanted convertible, front wheel drive, reliable to buy used. That = Volvo. Still haven't parted with the relic yet.

1. Great SUPER HIGH paying job

2. Oh wow, absolutely the nicest Rover you can buy, of course I have no family and I'm not very outdoorsy.

3. Oh no pressure, I don't care what others think of me. That should be obvious.

2.  Used European imports - best price per max remaining milieage expectation vs. used domestic and Asian jobs, and any new car.  

3.  I am peer pressure

I'm a co-owner of a small edtech company, my wife is a dentist.

I drive an 08 4Runner and freaking love it, bought it CPO and best thing I've ever owned. I'll drive it till the wheels fall off. My wife drives an 05 Accord that has low miles but beat to crap with dings and dents and bad paint.

Couldn't care less what people think, if what I drive mattered to them they probably wouldn't be a part of my life.

That being said, my next car will be a Tesla.

Car guys don't drive audis and land rovers (unless they're pre-1990). Car guys drive weird rare things that don't usually work and don't care what you think about their tiny impractical underpowered death trap.