20 minute drive...endless embarrassment for the wife:)

[Nasscar]

I'm afraid wives just don't get it. Mine doesn't anyway.

 

[westcoastGT]

In Houston, I get asked about my car ALL the time. When driving on the highway, I can see guys in their soccer mom SUV's and jacked out trucks checking out my car and staring at it in what I can only assume is wonder. I've had guys at the gym stop me and talk about it, had a guy at the grocery store ask me about it.

One time, I was stopped at a red light minding my own business. My lane has 3 cars in it. Next lane is wide open. Out of the corner of my eye I see a car stop next to me in said lane. I look over, and it's a guy in a porsche with his window down yelling at me "I LOVE YOUR CAR!!!"

My wife just rolls her eyes at me every time I tell her this stuff. One of the times I texted her about it. Her response "You're going to get so much dick with this car."

Yeah, I married up.

Good thing its not HER car Bawaaaaa

 

[Luminary]

I'm afraid wives just don't get it. Mine doesn't anyway.

Husbands too.

Had a guy in a Focus RS follow me INTO my driveway about half way in. My driveway is paved, about a quarter mile long, and wooded on both sides, out in the country. Talk about crazy.

 

[Nasscar]

I should have said, 'Stinger owner's partners just don't get it.'

 

[Luminary]

My husband just calls me "Obsessed", shakes his head and then usually walks away any time I start talking cars, which is quite often especially about my Stinger.

 

[Nasscar]

My husband just calls me "Obsessed", shakes his head and then usually walks away any time I start talking cars, which is quite often especially about my Stinger.

That is my wife to a tee.

 

[Cyrus Duong]

My GF has def started taking notes on cars more recently now I drive the Stinger. She'll talk to me about some cool cars she saw while going to Uni or cheese wedges (Corvettes?) she sees sometimes. I don't know if that's good or bad. Mainly she keeps telling me how she likes how my car looks more and more every time we get in and go somewhere. "It's different," she says.

 

[Revvdmedia]

My wife REFUSES to drive the car because she's worried she will wreck it and doesn't want to be responsible. She also rarely wants to even ride in it, so on the weekends when we go out, she drives her SUV and I ride shotgun lol.

She also calls it the "space car" because it has way more features than hers with the memory seats/steering wheel, HUD, etc lol.

 

[Cyrus Duong]

My wife REFUSES to drive the car because she's worried she will wreck it and doesn't want to be responsible...

I also try to urge my GF to drive my car sometimes, to experience what I do when driving it haha. Hasn't taken my offer yet. Maybe not the best idea according to some of the stories I hear. If she gets hooked she might want to steal it away from me when she can . Luckily she rides with me. Don't know why your wife would not want to ride in it. It's a very nice car to ride in is what my friends tell me.

 

[CKeeler]

My wife REFUSES to drive the car because she's worried she will wreck it and doesn't want to be responsible.

My wife is the same way, plus she says the brake pedal is way too sensitive for her. She can actually drive the Stinger, whereas my Mustang I had was stick shift so she couldn’t drive it.

 

[Nasscar]

My wife says my exhaust is too loud.

 

[Cyrus Duong]

My wife says my exhaust is too loud.

You don't have even close to what some of the aftermarkets are like though.

I wish we got the bi-modal as standard. Would have fit the car perfectly.

 

[Nasscar]

Yes I know the bi-modal is tame compared to some of the aftermarket ones. She used to say the same about a Ducati I used to have. once I put some Termi pipes on it. That was one sweet sound. Not a car/bike girl.

 

[Ucinn]

My wife loves driving the Stinger because it's fast!!.. LOL

 

[Silverfox]

My wife REFUSES to drive the car because she's worried she will wreck it and doesn't want to be responsible. She also rarely wants to even ride in it, so on the weekends when we go out, she drives her SUV and I ride shotgun lol.

She also calls it the "space car" because it has way more features than hers with the memory seats/steering wheel, HUD, etc lol.

Likewise, my wife won’t drive mine. She has always driven all my other cars but I can’t persuade her to drive the Stinger.

 

[MerlintheMad]

In Houston, I get asked about my car ALL the time. When driving on the highway, I can see guys in their soccer mom SUV's and jacked out trucks checking out my car and staring at it in what I can only assume is wonder. I've had guys at the gym stop me and talk about it, had a guy at the grocery store ask me about it.

One time, I was stopped at a red light minding my own business. My lane has 3 cars in it. Next lane is wide open. Out of the corner of my eye I see a car stop next to me in said lane. I look over, and it's a guy in a porsche with his window down yelling at me "I LOVE YOUR CAR!!!"

My wife just rolls her eyes at me every time I tell her this stuff. One of the times I texted her about it. Her response "You're going to get so much dick with this car."

Yeah, I married up.

I've admitted this before: my wife GAVE me this car. So the universe remains in balance.

Cops have liked to get a closer look at this car too. One "good ol' boy" stopped me last year on TX 287, and in my rearview mirror I could only see his tummy, gun belt and cocked hip stance as he stared at my car for almost a minute before swaggering slowly up to give me a warning. Second time in a week that happened in TX; they just stopped me to look the car over. Last road trip, a cop in NE warned me for running a stop sign at an offramp. Then he talked to me about my car: had seen them when he helped his son buy an Optima, asked me how I liked it. I gushed just long enough to say it's been perfect for me and I love road trips in it.

At a gas stop somewhere between NE and TN (not going to remember better than that), a guy asked me about my car, and after I told him briefly a few salient points of favoritism, he said: "I saw it and wondered if it might be the new Jag." Take that how you will, but I accept that it was a positive case of mistaken ID.

My wife says my exhaust is too loud.

My wife says my bass is too loud. I can hardly listen to any of my music with her in the car: turned waaay down it is just pointless. Also, she's (ironically) been more critical of the Stinger than ANY of our heapmobiles in the four decades of mawwage. I mean, really, how difficult is it to get a comfy position in the passenger seat of this GT? I don't get it. The Climate Controls of the Stinger have her endlessly fascinated and unsatisfied; always fiddling to warm up or cool down, seriously?!

If I was a modder, even just to the extent of a louder more musical exhaust note, she would have kittens. It's good our mawwage is made in heaven or this car (HER gift to me!) could very well form a deal breaker.

 

[Nasscar]

I've admitted this before: my wife GAVE me this car. So the universe remains in balance.

Cops have liked to get a closer look at this car too. One "good ol' boy" stopped me last year on TX 287, and in my rearview mirror I could only see his tummy, gun belt and cocked hip stance as he stared at my car for almost a minute before swaggering slowly up to give me a warning. Second time in a week that happened in TX; they just stopped me to look the car over. Last road trip, a cop in NE warned me for running a stop sign at an offramp. Then he talked to me about my car: had seen them when he helped his son buy an Optima, asked me how I liked it. I gushed just long enough to say it's been perfect for me and I love road trips in it.

At a gas stop somewhere between NE and TN (not going to remember better than that), a guy asked me about my car, and after I told him briefly a few salient points of favoritism, he said: "I saw it and wondered if it might be the new Jag." Take that how you will, but I accept that it was a positive case of mistaken ID.

My wife says my bass is too loud. I can hardly listen to any of my music with her in the car: turned waaay down it is just pointless. Also, she's (ironically) been more critical of the Stinger than ANY of our heapmobiles in the four decades of mawwage. I mean, really, how difficult is it to get a comfy position in the passenger seat of this GT? I don't get it. The Climate Controls of the Stinger have her endlessly fascinated and unsatisfied; always fiddling to warm up or cool down, seriously?!

If I was a modder, even just to the extent of a louder more musical exhaust note, she would have kittens. It's good our mawwage is made in heaven or this car (HER gift to me!) could very well form a deal breaker.

That was very informative and funny as usual Merlin. I think my wife doesn't like the Stinger period because 1. I bought it sort of without her permission and 2. Its a Kia and she is a badge snob.

 

[Nasscar]

And most importantly 3. It's not an SUV.

 

[Alex Barsanti]

My GF loves the car...now.

We were shopping around looking at the new Accord & Camry when I conned her into looking at the Optima. I'll admit it now that I just wanted to see the Stinger. She held that against me for the first couple months of ownership.

My oh my! Oh how things have changed. I work from home, and she leaves for work before I get up. I'll sometimes look in the garage and notice she took the Stinger. Jun BL mids + Borla exhaust has her hooked. She works in the Denver Tech Center at a "campus" with a massive parking garage. Every time she takes it there's a story about all the questions and stares she gets. The JB4 on map 5 (plus a few other mods) has her "going to Mexico" a couple times a month, too.

 

[Nasscar]

Nice work luring her with the Optima. You should never have coughed up and told her the reason though.