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And you bypassed My point entirely, although I went to great pains to emphasize it more than once. You were goin' on about how you attached so much importance to seeing what a mate drove, as I recall. My position was that it is irrelevant what appearances might indicate. It is what the true Heart and Soul of anything that counts. I can think of more than one so-called Supermodel that in real life has the morals of an allycat, and to whom I have absolutely no interestin. In fact, two specifically that are rather prominently in the news these days I consider not only unattractive but downright repulsive because of that. But let Me talk to a woman like Mary Steenbergen and I am totally focused at the outset.

I chose that car deliberately; the appearance was intended to make those of a more mercenary mindset write Me off as not being 'rich enough' for them, and I had many occasions to savor their faces when they saw it, lol. Especially when I KNEW that that car was meaner and tougher than anything they could possibly imagine save the most expensive and top-end vehicles. And bloody few of those! It had a custom-designed alarm system and you could not even open the door unless you knew exactly where to press to enguage the mechanism. As a self-taught engineer (I started out as a simple Electronics Technician) I designed it Myself, and although you might be able to break a window to enter it, even if you somehow managed to figure out the starting sequence it had an automatic default of twenty seconds before the engine cut out and everything froze. The engine was radically redesigned to take a petrol/water mix under intense pressure with a gigantic aspiration mechanism and huge exhaust, and the level of horsepower/petrol ingestion was dynamically controlled during operation. Lol. I know, more than you probably wished to hear, but again; what it looked like was irrrelevant. What it was MADE of made all the difference! I still believe you are overlooking this factor in your assessment to date.

You recall incorrectly. I simply ask people what car they drive because I like cars and it is a topic of interest to me. I gave up dating guys for their cars when I was still a teenager. I certainly didn't marry my husband for his beat-up Ford Ranger! You're the one using your vehicle as a "dating litmus test".
The next time you write someone off for asking about your car, you may consider they had a perfectly "benign" motivation for doing so. You're the one pre-judging what their motivations are.

BTW, whether you want to admit it or not, outward appearances DO matter and every single person who has ever taken a breath has made some sort of conclusion about another person based on their appearance. It goes without saying that what is inside matters the most, as outward beauty is transient, but that does not mean appearance is not considered. It's part of the natural order. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.