Just Get a Better Car

Roman tested a theory with a borrowed Lamborghini. The premise: the real reason anyone struggles with dating isn’t personality or looks—it’s not having the right car. So he parked it somewhere visible and waited.

Women who wouldn’t have looked at him twice suddenly noticed. The car did all the work. He just stood there.

It’s almost too obvious to mention. We all know status matters more than personality. We know we’re just animals responding to signals—wealth, power, the external stuff that promises resources and safety. But knowing something and watching it play out are different. Watching a Lamborghini make someone attractive is like seeing the whole mechanism exposed.

The weird thing? Nobody minds. Roman wasn’t bothered. I wasn’t bothered. We’ve all apparently decided that a half-million-dollar car is a perfectly reasonable way to become interesting. And it works so well that we’re not even pretending it doesn’t anymore.

I still can’t unsee it. Every time I watch someone’s interest spike at the sound of a designer label or an expensive car, I just see that Lamborghini again.