Best comment from an unsuspecting person?
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Washington DC/Northern VA
I pulled up to a gas station next to a GMC SUV. He looked at me and said "don't tell me what your total is". I just smiled. He walked around to the back and asked how much stuff I can put in the back so I opened the hatch and put down the back seats. I said "what more could I possibly need". The pump stopped pumping that moment, I said "13.5 b gallons, what more could I possibly need". He said "dammit!, thats it, I'm talking to my wife about getting one".
The "don't tell me what your total is" was great!!!!!
2nd Gear
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From: Salem, OR
My most memorable one was a friend, first seeing my Mini and saying "Ok lets go for a ride so you can show me why exactly you bought this thing..." (he was completely clueless about Minis)
Sits down, slides the seat back; "I have more leg room in here than my Ford Explorer...."
After a ride; "I think my kidneys are touching, I want one."
Sits down, slides the seat back; "I have more leg room in here than my Ford Explorer...."
After a ride; "I think my kidneys are touching, I want one."
2nd Gear
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Central Florida
Love it! I catch people checking out my car like that all the time and then getting into the Lexus or the Mercedes. I always just think to myself 'and you thought you were so cool when you bought that until you realized how much fun we MINI drivers are actually having.'
4th Gear
Joined: Mar 2007
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From: Morristown, NJ
After talking about a thread on another list about the Speed TV survey:
http://www.speedtv.com/news/
Jim cam up with the quip:
"If I wanted to watch Nascar, I'd flush a bag of Skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win"
Several people want T-shirts of that.
http://www.speedtv.com/news/
Jim cam up with the quip:
"If I wanted to watch Nascar, I'd flush a bag of Skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win"
Several people want T-shirts of that.
6th Gear
Joined: Feb 2007
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Having driven nothing but Benz's for a 10 year period, I can understand that.
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From: Washington DC/Northern VA
Well, I was leaving the gym to my car in the parking lot, and this lady was leaning on the hood of my car talking to a guy who was leaning on his car, parked next to mine, and as I approached, she gave the typical, "Oh, i'm so sorry..." As I was entering the car, she was telling me how beautiful the car was and that it was one of her dream cars that she always wanted to own....blah blah blah"
Wtf 
A few months ago I made a lunch run to the grocery store. I get my stuff and proceed to the checkout. As I am paying the cashier referred to me as the MINI. Since she saw me pull in while she was having a smoke.
3rd Gear
Joined: Sep 2007
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From: Eastern Panhandle WV
Win!!! 
I get the most compliments from Harley riders, which kind of surprises me. But without fail if one is filling up while I'm at the pump he always comes up to talk to me about it.
One guy probably in his late 60's came to ask how I liked the car. He said he was amazed at how customizable the cars were and he was thinking of getting one.
I get the most compliments from Harley riders, which kind of surprises me. But without fail if one is filling up while I'm at the pump he always comes up to talk to me about it.
One guy probably in his late 60's came to ask how I liked the car. He said he was amazed at how customizable the cars were and he was thinking of getting one.
6th Gear
Joined: Feb 2007
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I was getting gas. A guy in a similar color new (still with paper plates) GTI pulls up to the pump at the other island. Walks over, looks over my car, doesn't say anything. Goes back to his car, shakes his head and says, "damn."
4th Gear
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Phoenix, AZ
While driving back home after a "hard" days work i get stopped at a traffic light and theres an orange Lotus Elise, i look in my rearview mirror and he gives me the thumbs up, then a few blocks down the road at another traffic light he pulls next to me and says "Nice MINI, you wanna trade?"
Neutral
Joined: Jan 2008
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Nascar Skittles T-Shirts
If you are looking for a T-shirt with that quote, look here:
www.cafepress.com/ricksrepair
If I wanted to watch Nascar I'd flush a bad of skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win.
www.cafepress.com/ricksrepair
If I wanted to watch Nascar I'd flush a bad of skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win.
Caffeine Junkie
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: Montgomery Village, MD
This happened last night on the way home from work. I was at a stoplight, and this "ricer" pulls up in the lane next to me - '90-something Honda Civic, coffee-can exhaust, 3ft rear wing, BBS-ish wheels, etc. He starts tooting his horn, so I look over and see him enthusiastically giving me the thumbs-up.
Had we been at the front of the line, I would have blown his doors off when the light turned.
Had we been at the front of the line, I would have blown his doors off when the light turned.
If you are looking for a T-shirt with that quote, look here:
www.cafepress.com/ricksrepair
If I wanted to watch Nascar I'd flush a bad of skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win.
www.cafepress.com/ricksrepair
If I wanted to watch Nascar I'd flush a bad of skittles down the toilet and bet on which color would win.
6th Gear
Joined: Feb 2007
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Okay, so this isn't really a comment, but...... I was going through a parking lot yesterday, where they had speed bumps done as Mt. Everest models. There was a moving van parked by the side of one I was driving over. Next to the truck was the driver, on his cell phone. As I climbed the crest of the bump, the driver's mouth opened in surprise and, as he pointed to my car, his cell phone dropped into a water/ice puddle. I felt kind of guilty.
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Washington DC/Northern VA
Was challenged by a guy in a 330 BMW at a stop light...I guess I was better in accelerating with my tuned engine but when he pulled up next to me at the next light, he gave me a big thumbs up.
6th Gear
Joined: Nov 2003
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From: Concord, California
Big ...BIG, BAD, SCARY, MEAN looking guy.
I have never heard the "F" word used so many times in one sentence ... to really say something nice ...
" F%*# , %^#$# #^$, $#@, %$# CAR DUDE ...^$% ! "
I have never heard the "F" word used so many times in one sentence ... to really say something nice ...
" F%*# , %^#$# #^$, $#@, %$# CAR DUDE ...^$% ! "
6th Gear
Joined: Jul 2006
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Was being tailgated last week by three Bubbas in a rusted out, oil burning pickup with a gun rack in the back window. As they roared by me the Bubba riding shotgun stuck his head out the window and gave me a thumbs up. In this part of the woods you would expect the barrel of a shot gun, not a thumbs up.
5th Gear
Joined: Jan 2008
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From: San Francisco, CA
it was the third day i had the car and i just detailed it myself to get all of those automatic car wash swirl marks out of the paint and the dust out from b/t the stack and radio. i flew by a new 06 V6 Mustang with the windows down and at the next light the girlfriend in the passenger seat of the ford leans out over her boyfriend and says "I like yours better!" it was a great moment in MINI history.