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LOL.
As a woman, I can't imagine finding a 23-year-old Honda remotely irresistable. I think the OP is a humble brag.
I've owned a few "hot" cars in my life (Porsche 911, Saab Viggen, BMW 2002 back when they were hot) and nobody treated me any differently because of what I drove...
My highly modded Jackson Racing Civic Si was "hot" back around 1991 to 1994 when I had it back then. It wouldn't be hot now, but it's a classic old Honda. It was hot because the girl would twirl their car keys when they saw it, they would follow me when I drove it, gangster would bravely walk across the street in front of me when I was driving it. Sometimes they thought I was some hotshot drug dealer or so. I didn't like the attraction I got from it. AND THAT WAS BACK THEN, NOT NOW.
Sorry, but a Civic was never a hot car, not even in 1990-92. It paled next to the C4 Corvette, the new 300ZX, Dodge Stealth/3000GT, NSX, Dodge Viper, Supra, RX7, Porsche 911, Ferrari, Lambo... Civic doesn't make the cut. It's a nice car, but don't kid yourself thinking it was ever in the same league as the Ferraris, Porsches and Lambos you mention.
You think people that have those cars sell them because they can't handle how hot they are??? I don't think so. More likely, they bought a Ferrari 360 and sold it when the 430 came out and upgraded, and same thing for Porsche, upgrading from a 993 to a 996, then 997, and now a 991.
To me a Rolls Royce Phantom or any RR/Bentley convertible is a total show off car and while I can appreciate the fine quality of the build and performance I honestly couldn't own one. The Phantom is just excess on every level and the convertible versions just scream look at me (for some reason the hardtop versions of the Bentleys don't give me that same vibe).
RR Phantom is 400K new, even a 10 year old one is still 125K and to most of America 400K will buy a very nice home, a mansion in some places while 125K can buy a nice, though more modest home. To me it just would feel wrong driving that kind of conspicuous consumption around and I am a car guy.
To me a Rolls Royce Phantom or any RR/Bentley convertible is a total show off car and while I can appreciate the fine quality of the build and performance I honestly couldn't own one. The Phantom is just excess on every level and the convertible versions just scream look at me (for some reason the hardtop versions of the Bentleys don't give me that same vibe).
RR Phantom is 400K new, even a 10 year old one is still 125K and to most of America 400K will buy a very nice home, a mansion in some places while 125K can buy a nice, though more modest home. To me it just would feel wrong driving that kind of conspicuous consumption around and I am a car guy.
I agree with this to a point... The most I could ever see myself paying for a car would be about 200k. It would have to be a phenomenal car for me to do that however, realistically I don't think I'll ever spend over 125k for one unless I won the lottery or something. I also don't believe in buying brand new, the finance guy in me balks at how much money you lose the first 3-4 years of ownership. That goes for cheaper cars as well as ultra expensive. But I don't begrudge other people doing that, after all, it's their car I'll be buying 4-5 years later after they've taken the depreciation hit for me!
Dodge Challenger drivers suffer daily from this problem.
Get the word out... they're freaking $30-40K Dodges, not Lambos or Ferraris. Stop staring!!!
No they don't. People realize they aren't that special. For the first year they were out, sure, but not now. I think you would like to think they are staring though.
My highly modded Jackson Racing Civic Si was "hot" back around 1991 to 1994 when I had it back then. It wouldn't be hot now, but it's a classic old Honda. It was hot because the girl would twirl their car keys when they saw it, they would follow me when I drove it, gangster would bravely walk across the street in front of me when I was driving it. Sometimes they thought I was some hotshot drug dealer or so. I didn't like the attraction I got from it. AND THAT WAS BACK THEN, NOT NOW.
A drug dealer driving a Honda, not even back then.
Several of the car magazines back in the 1960s did say that some cars available to the public were too hot to handle for many drivers on the street.
Like this '67 427/450 hp Nickey Camaro which ran an 11.40 sec @ 120 mph 1/4 mile.
Other examples would be the '62-'63 Max Wedge Mopar and '64 Ford Thunderbolt.
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I think the OP is a 
