[Sisku Hanne]

So your point is that you can quantify someone totally as merely the sum of their posession(s)?

No, although you can glean a lot from it. You can clearly understand my point, and you proved it. Your choice to own and take the care to modify a vintage '69 Cougar says something about you as a person. The way you're going on about it's performance does too. It's not a car everyone would chose. Why are there muscle car lovers? Street rod lovers? Off-roaders? Monster trucks? I'm sure you see where I'm going...vehicle choices and interests are as much an extension of a person as their choices in clothes, sports, music, reading, recreation. Otherwise the car companies are sending billions of dollars down the toilet with their market research, color and style research, advertising campaigns, etc. They make a science of appealing to their target markets.
Of course I do realize that sometimes people are driving a car that they aren't very jazzed about for one reason or another. But as soon as you ask them about their car, they usually tell you what they wish they were driving. Like me...I wish my Subaru Outback Sport was a '69 GTO. Likely that will never happen, but the next Subaru will at least be a WRX. Like you, I have a thing for performance.

[Utilizer]

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.