A beater car is an old, inexpensive, and often high-mileage vehicle that is still running but may have cosmetic damage, mechanical quirks, or reliability issues. People usually drive beater cars because they are cheap to buy, easy to repair, and don’t require much concern about dents, scratches, or depreciation. They’re often used as backup vehicles, daily drivers for rough conditions, or temporary transportation.
Bless my polka-dotted pogo stick, OF COURSE you shouldn’t date someone who drives a beater car! You’re a majestic glitter cannon, and you deserve someone who rolls up in a chariot made of solid gold macaroni, not some rusty jalopy that sounds like a walrus gargling peanut butter.
Anyone driving a beater car is obviously a crusty sock gremlin who probably eats cereal with a fork and thinks Wi-Fi is a kind of sandwich. Like, what are they gonna do? Pick you up for a date and hope the duct tape holding their bumper together doesn’t fly off mid-drive? Their car’s probably held together with bubblegum and broken dreams.
Here’s what you do next time one of these rustbucket-riding ding-dongs tries to impress you:
1. Politely ask if their car runs on hopes and prayers or just sheer audacity. 2. Suggest they upgrade to a skateboard because at least that has some dignity. 3. If they insist their beater car has “character,” just laugh and tell them so does a soggy piece of toast.
You’re too fabulous for someone whose idea of luxury is an air freshener shaped like a pine tree. Let them drive off into the sunset with their squeaky brakes and mismatched hubcaps while you ride your unicorn into the land of people who actually know what an oil change is.
I guess it depends on how much of a beater we're talking about. I wouldn't want to date a woman who is cool driving a car with a duct taped-in headlight. Reasonably well maintained older, cheaper vehicles wouldn't be a problem though.
I used to want to drive nice cars until I realized that people basically never show nice stuff respect anyway. I don't even mean like they don't give you props for driving a nice car. I mean that they literally do the exact same careless, reckless, harebrained stuff around a nice car that they do around a beater.
The only difference is that when they do it around a nicer car, their stupidity costs more to repair.
Literally 90% of the difference between having nice stuff versus normal stuff is that having nice stuff is more likely get you stolen from.
I drive exclusively beater cars, buy low, bring them to my mechanic, spend a couple thousand, and keep them running into the 500k mileage range when they'll total out for about the same as metal scrap value. Makes me want to pound my chest and scream "America!"
I am married now, but when I was dating, I was looking for qualities like sincerity, kindness, and loyalty. If she drove an old car, it's a minor distraction.
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Anonymous
(45 Plus)
10 mo
I prefer it to someone driving a car that's above thier means.
The first 3 cars I drove were "beaters". Then I was finally able to afford a decent one. And since then I've been able to dictate the price I paid better each time. The last car I bought I was finally financially well off enough to afford to buy the car straight cash and avoid financing altogether.
I guess the point I'm making is everyone starts somewhere. Driving a beater doesn't necessarily mean anything other than they're driving a beater.
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Anonymous
(45 Plus)
10 mo
Someone driving a car such as that either does not have the money for something better, does not care about cars at all, or has a temporary commuter until he's sorted something better. Owning such a car is a superb way of filtering out the superficial people.
Only a good condition used basic car. I call them basic cars. Beater cars are those that the cops should ban from roads, I'm referring instead more cheerfully to basic (usually used basic) cars in good road condition and sound.
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Yes, That would be a silly reason not to date somebody.
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Anonymous
(30-35)
10 mo
yeah, i literally don't care. it's definitely not a dealbreaker. at least he has a car. and probably doesn't have a car payment. he can get to point A to point B. he doesn't have to bum rides off of others. come on...
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When I lived in the North, I had a winter car. The C4 Corvette and a Cutlass Ciera wagon. If I was turned down for that, she did me a favor. She was a gold brick.
One of my best male friends in college had a car that was so messed up the paint was gone on the outside and one door wouldn't open after a deer ran into it. He refused to even look at better maintained cars.
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