Do you get any compliments on your car?

[LateFan]

Mostly people just throw rotting fruit at us.

[XwalkerX]

When someone approachs me I am polite and thankful but usually am looking for a way out of the situation as quickly and politely as possible. I never know what to say and I find the whole thing awkward. Thumbs up are much more preferred and luckily I get those more than the other.

lol this is spot on.

[CorvallisBMW]

Why would people want to compliment my 25-year-old shitbox?

[bumada]

Nothing on the e30 yet. I used to get a lot on the e46 M3. Mostly kids in Scion TCs

[Stanley Rockafella]

over 10 years ago ppl were already complimenting my mostly stock e30 (only wheels were non-OEM).

Since then it's just gotten more common

[jalopi]

if you wanna be a real attention whore v8 swap your e30. the classic 80's look + dat cam lope = the kind of attention you get from driving a neon green ferarri.. at least that's what it was like driving my car

[Aleman]

I've had a few comments, but it's not like people say stuff everyday. One time I was at a stoplight next to a 60+ year old dude in an old Triumph 'vert, and he shouts 'Yay old cars!'. All I could say is 'yup'.

Another time a saw a dude driving an E30 'vert, and he about shit himself when he saw me coming the other way. Waving his arms around like some sort of nut job. I waved.

... I don't really like talking cars to begin with...

But you have 1,100+ posts? Seems like you do. LOL!

[LJ851]

Why would people want to compliment my 25-year-old shitbox?

This.

I basically get no interaction while driving my E30.

Driving my Scout on the other hand is a constant barrage of comments and interest. Never been in a vehicle that makes more people smile and point and want to talk.

2002 gets a lot of love too. My 911 gets me stink eye 97% of the time with the very occasional serious compliment.

People are weird.

[jalopi]

My 911 gets me stink eye 97% of the time with the very occasional serious compliment

doesn't help that the general population would have a hard time guessing how many years of production there were between these two cars




point being that people driving newer german cars tend to be stereotyped as douchebags. your car might be over 30 years old, but most of the "99%" crowd probably doesn't know that

[nando]

I get compliments all the time, although I haven't driven it much lately. I used to get offers to buy all the time too, I probably still would if I drove it every day.

[Wschnitz]

Ever since I got the front end refinished and put the full IS kit on I cant escape them, like, in traffic, at the gas station, getting out of car at parking lots.

ITS NOT EVEN CLEAN THE WHEELS DONT MATCH AND THERES DENTS ALL OVER PLS

[IceWhite]

Nahh!!
More like Harassment.
Fuel stations, corner shop, supermarket parking lot, traffic lights, highways, etc.
Security guards at shopping mall entrances, office parks, gated communities etc.

Not to mention the traffic cops. They will always stop me just to look at the car, whether I broke a traffic rule or not. They are all only interested in buying the car. First question everybody asks is "How much?"

The compliments:
Well, the one time I broke a traffic rule is when I forgot to carry my drivers license and the cop let me go after giving me his phone number in case I decide to sell the car.
The other time is when a guy driving an E46 M3 pulled up next to me at a traffic light to ask me "How much?", when I replied not for sale the gave a thumbs up and carried on driving.

[CENTURION]

Nahh!!
More like Harassment.
Fuel stations, corner shop, supermarket parking lot, traffic lights, highways, etc.
Security guards at shopping mall entrances, office parks, gated communities etc.

Not to mention the traffic cops. They will always stop me just to look at the car, whether I broke a traffic rule or not. They are all only interested in buying the car. First question everybody asks is "How much?"

The compliments:
Well, the one time I broke a traffic rule is when I forgot to carry my drivers license and the cop let me go after giving me his phone number in case I decide to sell the car.
The other time is when a guy driving an E46 M3 pulled up next to me at a traffic light to ask me "How much?", when I replied not for sale the gave a thumbs up and carried on driving.

as soon as you said "how much"
john wick came to mind. that would be a bad day

[IRON-E]

I was at the self car wash this one time, an older Asian cougar approaches the car and circles around it, as I'm drying it, cleaning the wheels and detailing little things (this was back when my car had blue wheels, fresh respray and clean leather interior) and so she says., cute car
Me; Thank you
Her; looks like it'd be fun to drive
Me; I look over and see her husband drying, their SUV (MBZ)
Her; what year is it
Me; 1988
Her; Our car is boring, can I still find one of these around?
Me; (Awkwardly scratching my head) Yeah you can find them on the Internet but, won't be as comfortable as your SUV.
Her; Would you let me test drive yours or buy it?
Me; Nope.

Anyways really odd and her husband, never even came over to see, what was going on. Good looking lady in her mid 50s.

[jalopi]

should've let her test drive yours

as long as you got to test drive "hers"