I don’t notice cars unless they’re exceptionally cool or in exceptionally bad condition.
Put me in the “I notice everybody’s car” camp. I like cars, especially flashy sports cars, so I notice them. I wouldn’t make a value judgment about somebody’s car (although I do have to admit that I find Smart cars dorky looking and might be a little negatively inclined initially about a guy who drove one, in the “don’t you care at all that you’re driving a stupid looking car?” sort of way).
A guy with a flashy sports car wouldn’t impress me, though. I’d like his car and might ask him if I could drive it (if he wouldn’t, once he got to know me, the reason why would be a big determiner about whether any hypothetical relationship continued (I’m happily married so all my other relationships are hypothetical :D) but I wouldn’t be impressed by his manliness or his earning power or anything like that. I think guys who drive Hummers are compensating for something, though. 
The other day the spouse and I went to Los Gatos (a well-off town near where we live) to window-shop, and in the hour or so we were there, I saw three Aston Martins, two Ferarris, and one classic MG parked on the street. A time before, we saw an absolutely gorgeous Mercedes SLR McLaren (I looked it up–it was a $650K car at the time) just parked right there with all the other cars. Damn straight I noticed! I commented amusedly to the spouse that Los Gatos is one of the few places I know where cars like Porsches and BMWs are “boring.” 
Hopefully this won’t derail the OP, but what are ladies reactions to a 2001 Tundra 2 wheel drive? I use it all the time, but clean it out after use. Mostly I haul trash and trimmings, but sometimes I haul things for friends.
Just for the record, I’m an old duffer and not looking for the ladies, but what are your opinions of a truck like mine?
(as a side note, I once knew a fellow who had a “Porsche”- the one with the Volkswagen engine…he referred to it as his babe-mobile. I laughed and told him to get a pickup, as we lived in logging country)
I can barely remember what the car I’m in looks like. If a guy that I’m crushing on has a real piece of shit car, that makes him seem even cuter to me. I’m not exactly sure why. Maybe it has something to do with humanizing them and making them more approachable. Or maybe I find emasculation adorable. But seriously, I love guys with lemons. I had a long-standing crush on a guy in college that doubled in intensity the first time I saw him pop the smoking hood of his boat-sized clunker, cursing madly.
I’ll notice if he keeps it neat, but not serial-killer, braids-his-butt-hair kind of way; how he keeps it up, if he fixes it himself. Fixing it up himself? That impresses me. I like that.What he drives, I guess, is not important; it’s how he drives it.
I notice cars in that I think big cars are stupid. Not necessarily pickups–those I can generally get behind because they can drive through deep snow and haul things. But a Hummer or a gigantic SUV? Not happening.
I used to be terrible at identifying car types, but having watched more than a few episodes of Top Gear, I’ve gotten better at recognizing symbols (like Audi’s rings, and Toyota’s loopy…thing). Could I tell you if it was, say, a 300-series? Fuck no. But I could probably tell you the type of car (sedan, coupe, etc.) and the company that made it.
Yes, I notice it, but not always in the ways noted in the poll. After a few moments, I finally chose the first option, but any of them could apply depending upon the situation and the man.
Those phones are specifically a highway feature (toll roads). Most highways in Spain give you a piece of paper when you enter them and that piece of paper has a number you can call from a cellphone, but both the papered and paperless highways have phones. The idea is that, although cellphones are indeed more and more ubiquitous, we can’t count on people having one and having it charged, or it having good reception - also, if it’s a paperless highway people won’t know the highway’s specific emergency number (you can still call 112 and have them contact the highway).
I think my immediate family’s cars have stopped at the side of a road for breakdowns exactly never. A grand total of six flats (among four drivers), several times to get the snow chains on, many times for stomach distress or I-need-to-pee. I do know two people who had to stop at the side of the road and call an ambulance though - it wasn’t the car that was broken, it was the driver.
I stopped at the side of the highway to take a phone call once and before it was over there was a Guardia Civil (cops) car there, someone had reported seeing my car stopped; I’ve seen people stop when they saw a car on the side of the highway to see if they could help, and have friends who were helped by such strangers: still, again you simply can’t count on the availability of good samaritans.