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.
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.