What do i mean by social status?

In the orginal starting post, i bought my car in the beggining for social status. Not to impress other tunners or neccasarily girls but overall presentation of who i am. Integra representing to me at the time someone young, able to afford a nice car, and good taste. What i'm saying is that there are people who buy cars simply based on what the car represents of oneself. That is what i mean by "social status," Not "Look at this bitch, vtek!"

I'm not sure if your directly asking me

If you are buying a car to try to impress your friends or a girl... Why are you trying to impress your friends? Are you in some sort of "competition" with them to see who has the best "things"? And you surely don't want to date a girl that is interested in what kind of car you drive."

But why am i trying to impress my friends and other people? Well i wouldn't call it "impress." Well.. of course your gonna care about what your friend's think of your car just like you hope that they care about your career choice. It's somthing you work hard for and hopefully others will acknowledge that.

As far as the catch phrase " do what YOU want to your car, it's your car, Don't worry about what others think." Well this is true to an extent i believe. Isn't everything that we do is to "impress" someone? The things we wear, our deodorent, or why we ask "what do you think of these rims?" Everything we do clothes, cars or the way we laugh is done in order to impress someone. Some mod their cars with lights to impress the showcar people and some mod their cars with the "clean" look in mind to impress another crowd. Who really mods a car just for their own enjoyment? You do to a certain extint, because i'm sure your very proud to show your car to family and friends? It's not only hardwork but modding your car is an expression of yourself. So when my car doesn't get respected (not meaning it gets complimented) I feel they aren't respecting me sort of speak. Of course i'm not anal about it but after a while it builds up.

*edit* i just don't like the fact that you would say "why do you so concerned about what others think." Your concerned with what others think is because you need to feel "apart" of somthing do you not? why are you here? if it were for purely info, you wouldn't post anything but questions. your here because we're all part of a group, and we want to be accepted in this group. I'm very fascinated by cars and love everything about them (for now). So i feel i am part of a car enthusiest group, but when i see other real car enthusiest not accept my car, i feel they don't accept me. But lets say i get 4-5 guys who appreciate my car and only 1 guy who doesn't show any respect to what i've done, then i'm fine. When vice versa, I tend to feel attacked, For i feel that my own "group" sort of speak just voted me off an island i didn't want to leave.

*rant rant.. i know i'm sure i could've edited more.