to establish wether a DC is worthy of befriending my DC by checking out what car their parents drive?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Obviously only clean and metallickyand upmarket car-owners will prduce suitable offspring for my DC to play with.

AIBU to use this as a guage?

My car is a cute little one, but sadly to very clean right now. I need dh to or row it again, he gets all edgy with it and goes nd gets it cleaned and vacuumed.

Dh's car is black and shiny and VERY fast, but is only a hot hatch style, not some upper class bug car type.

Gosh Viva.

Now you're throwing complicatins into the mix.

Ponders.

Do I judeg by "best" car or "worst" car?

Chaos are you now sock puppeting your own thread?!?! SIOB

Don't do that cuz then you aren't coloured OP colour any more!!!!!!

Oh filp.

Caught out.

Of course, if you are, you haven't been very clever if I sussed it was you so quickly.

3 - I kid you not, 3 of my ds's closest friends parents DO NOT HAVE A CAR. Now that is bad planning on the lift sharing front!

Depends on which group you want you child to mix with. If it's the future rocket scientists or the next Bill Gates go for the ones that look like scrap yard rejects. All the best nerds drive cars that defy the laws of physics. They take great pride in it. My uber-nerd husband even has a layer of grass growing on the roof of his.

And what constitutes a niace car?

New ford mondeo? Is that ok?

Or are we talking mercs and BMW?

Does a new mondeo trump a 10 year old merc?

I need specifics.

my current car

My dc's are destined to be friendless

What Kladdaka said. Shiny, metallic new cars scream "nouveau". Think "battered volvo". Extra points for rust, dog hair and travel stickers.

Dunno MessyTerrier, thinking 'battered volvo' gives me the jitters. I live in Sweden. Wall to wall volvos. The battered ones are usually driven by inbreds who live deep in the forest and are a bit too handy with a chainsaw.

Goes off the check all the doors are locked

I think your DC will have copious friends with that Honeyd.

Oh yes LeQ. I think most of the Sloanes all drive Polos what Papa has prurchased as well.

Yes, I am vair popular to do drop offs after school discos, I have waaaaay more cred than even Ferrari Dad

Dd was gutted when I sold the vw camper, she said it made her the cool kid at school in the other kids' eyes.

LeQ

Among with many on here I will whole heartedly agree that MrQ is very sweet and rather handsome, but you are pushing it with cool!

Cool people do not lose a entire BMW and only realise months later. They just don't.

I know LeQ

The BMW thread was one of your finest comedy gifts to mnet though

You can look on darling but I'm so posh I have a contracted driver/car service, just let me knows where your helipad is though and I,l pop lo over at 4pm ok lurvie

Frightfully sorry to disturb this thread, but the only "cool" car to drive is a Merc that is bought and paid for
She may be 10 this year, but she costs far less, in certain respects, than a brand new BMW to run and to insure, given her bhp.
And to respond to the OP, frankly it doesn't matter one single bit what sort of car anyone drives, just as long as they drive properly and safely and get the people in it from A to B without mishap.