Driving across country we stopped in a very old, full service, gas station in New Mexico. A very friendly hispanic man took one look at the MINI and asked if it ran on gasoline! His friend came out and they both walked around it several times and said..."It's Nice!"

 

This guys wife calls him at work saying she has a flat tire but needs to go the store and wanted to know if it was alright to take the car anyway because it was only flat on the bottom.

 

That reminds me. ... We were driving xcountry in Arizona, down south, west of tuscon coming out of Organ Pipe? New houses were like $32K?

Stopped in a gas station and entire Hispanic Family jumped out of their car and came over to stare out our plate that said "Carerra" (yes originally on a 911 Carrera but just kept on the Turbo). The father immediately asked if were were Carreras because that was their surname and wanted to know if we were relatives He just couldn't understand why someone would have a plate with their name on it.

 

You have to admit, that's pretty funny!

Check out this :

 

I've heard this story enough time over the years that it's probably just an urban legend, but here goes.

A guy driving a Lotus 7 with no badges drives into a gas station. As he's fueling the young pump jockey is admiring the car but cannot figure out what it is. After a couple minutes of looking the car over, he finally squats down by one of the wheels, smiles, and stands up and says, "That's a mighty nice UNDO you have there!"

 

Priceless

 

Aye, that's like the one I heard about the husband who asked his wife to call around & find him a water pump for his car. He tells her all the info is on the pad next to the phone. she calls a few parts houses & asks for a 24 oz water pump, she's told lady they don't come that way, find out what you need & call back. She trys one more place before shes gives up completely. She gets the same reply, then the parts guy asks what make of car it's for, she says it's a Datsun to which the parts guy tells her "Oh' 24 oz ,26 oz, 28 oz, I got'em all. (240Z, 260Z, 280Z)

 

That's awesome...sounds like something my wife would do

 

I was asked once:
"Does it use gas?"

The funny part is that I had just pulled up to the Amoco Ultimate pump.

Another time I heard:
"Man, them are some cool racing stripes!"
I think he saw my UJ roof flag.

My favorite was:
"I thought you got a new job about 40 miles away. Do they let you recharge that thing at work?"

Rawhyde

 

"Have you seen The Italian Job? There's a bunch of cars just like yours in it!"

 

Just after I got my car, a couple stopped me in a parking lot and the wife said to her husband: "That's one of those cars that cost $100,000." I said that I wished I could afford such a car, but that the price I paid was much more modest.

cheers,

 

Out here in redneck land, you hear all sorts of things.

Is that a Chrystler?

What is it?

What do you feed the squirrels?

by a 6'9" man while waiting at Red Lobster "I would never fit in that thing"
Me: Sure you would, wanna see?
Laughingly "Sure, but I bet I won't fit."
I open the door and he sits in my seat, his eyes wide opened with a huge grin on his face..."Well, I sure never would have thought that I could fit in that tiny little car. Who makes it?"

 

In late 02, when I had Mongo, the EB/W MINI, I had a lady at a JITB in east Dallas ask me what kind of car it was. I told her it was a Caddy. She got a puzzled look on her face and I said, "you know, the Caddy that ziggs." She got this "Ah-ha" look and said that she had heard of that.

I also used to round numbers up just a tad . . . people at gas stations would ask what kind of mileage I was getting. "A hundred" I'd say. "Wow" they would reply. Next question was usually, "how fast will she go?" To which I'd reply "200." "Nawhhh," they'd say, then I'd tell 'em about the small V-8 . . . I used to be evil.

 

At auto show a couple of years ago while standing next to the NSX - (say it in a backwoods accent) "$90,000 for that! My truck has more horsepower"

 

I was hanging around the MINI display at the Sacramento International Auto Show in the fall of 2004. I saw a mom walking towards the MINIs with a little boy by the hand. He looked at the MINIs and then looked up at his mom and asked, "Mommy, are those real cars?"

(What do you want to bet his mom and dad both drove SUVs?)

 

Some guy "Isn't this little car here made by BMW?"
Me "Not exactly"
Some guy "Then why did you take the BMW logos off?"

 

You have no idea how sick I am of hearing that one!

 

i train and fight MMA so im in 'descent shape' my girlfriend is from Holland and when i told her mom i was getting one at first she thought i was getting the original that her husband had over there. when i explained i was getting the new one, she was like oh dont they tip easy? i was like wtf na good luck trying to do that. She said, either way , next time you go for run, you pick up stripes and put car on like backpack for extra weight! oh btw cooperjedi, which b15forum and when, i had a spec v that i traded in early 05 for mini, was on b15sentra.net

 

This genius I work with today said
"MINI's are just a fad, everyone has one"

and then

"Guys who drive MINI's are just compensating"
In reply I said "They drive a MINI, what are they compensating for???"


He's jealous he can't get cool racing stripes for his oversized truck...

 

Back when I had ordred my MCS, my dear spouse and I were expecting our first child. When I told people that I was getting a MINI, they said, "You're having a baby and you're getting that little thing?!" To which I always dead panned, "Babies are little."

Now, our little family prouldly Motors everywhere. And, yes, I can fit a stroller in with the car seat!!!!

 

A casual freind, who drives a Dodge Dakota truck ask me, "Hea! You still got that little midget car?" To which I replied. "Yea! You still got that Plymouth".

And a co-worker..."I can't see spending all that money for half-a-car."

And another co-worker..."Do you feel safe in it?" He rides a motorcycle 12k miles a year and we've had 3 other riders (co-workers) hospitalized (2 life-flighted & 1 broken femur) in the past year.

 

Some guy I know actually referred to Mini Coopers as "clown cars." I said "not funny."

 

i bought my car in mid summer of 2002. with in weeks i was asked if it was the new ford..... i wasn't happy about it but he did have a hooters employee shirt on so i didn't want to make him angry.

just this past year i was asked at a stop light if the engine was in the back or front. in the pepsi mans defense i do keep the back seats down most of the time. i just shook my head. as it turns out, i do work for Coke and now i see what kind of people they hire.

 

My most common question comes from people who see the car parked somewhere. They will walk around looking at the car, and when I walk up they almost always say something like this:
"Hmm. A MINI Cooper, huh? Who makes that, (insert your choice: Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, etc)?"

I tell them: "They are made by MINI."

"Is that a part of (insert above vehicle manufacturer)?" or "Oh, so it's a Volkswagen." (Still trying to figure out that logic.)

That's generally when I just get in the car shaking my head.


Don't know if this is true or not, but I heard this a while back:
A MINI was stopped at a traffic light and a Jaguar was in the next lane.
The Jag driver rolled his window down and laughed at the MINI driver saying "Nice BMW!"
The MINI driver just laughed back and said "Yeah, and I like your Ford, too!"
The Jag driver sped away.

 

My somewhat jealous co-worker calls it a "clown car."
And HE's got the big fart-can installed on the rear of his Acura RSX.
I ate his lunch in the turns exiting work one day. He admitted defeat.
:-)