Chaddy, when you ask for opinions from a whole spectrum of people, you have to expect a whole spectrum of opinions, good and bad. Granted some people have (much) less tact than others in expressing negative views, but you did ask for it. I don't know how long you've been on this forum, but I would think that in that time period, you would have seen that this is not that "Fast & Furious" kind of crowd, so you would have to expect criticism. Maybe it would go over better with some of the youngsters at S2Ki.
That being said, if you didn't want to hear anything negative, you should have only asked mom what she thought. That would have been the safe positive reinforcement you were looking for.
And for the record of my opinion, I just don't get
why you're doing that to the car
To each his own....