How about my wife telling my daughters that Daddy's car could fit in the back of her minivan :-)

Or the Toyota salesman we met when hshopping for my wifes new minivan that insisted that:

a) All Coopers were turnocharged! I settled that by opening my hood and asking him to show me where it was (I have a Base Cooper)

b) Recommended in his professional opinion that my wife and I both get new cars and I trade in the Mini for a Scion Xa since they are safer cars. (Mind you I just bought my Cooper 2 months ago, I laughed in his face, and asked him what he was smoking and If I could have some. The wife and I then walked into the stealership got another salesman and bought her new minivan from him.)

First rule of selling things, do not insult what the customer already has, especially if they are in love with it.

 

Oh, I bought the upgrade. The squirrels were replaced with angry weasels...

I don't know. Bring the family over and we'll find out.

 

Mind if I steal that one? LOL

 

"Hey, how do you like your MINI?"

Maybe that doesn't sound stupid, but I've got to give you a little background. I'm an old fart. Lots of grey hair. I actually get senior citizen discounts at some of the places around here.

So I'm sitting at a stop light, and this car pulls up next to me and honks politely. I look over and there is this absolutely gorgeous girl in her mid-twenties signalling to me to roll down my window. I push the button and - bzzzzzt - down goes the window, and she leans out her window and says, "Hey, how do you like your MINI?"

And I say, "I LOVE my MINI!"

And I'm thinking, "Are you kidding? Beautiful women pull up next to me and ask me about my car! I LOVE my MINI!"

Sheesh, what a stooopid question!

 

Someone I know works at Autozone, he told me someone came in and wanted muffler barrings for there car because the ones on there car were squeeking.

All that i said back to him was WOW!!!!!! there are some stupid people out there.

My favorite with the Ultima GTR(look in my gallery for a pic)(NOT A NISSAN )is you are standing next to the car (they dont know that it is your car) and a guy in there 20s walks up with his girlfriend and starts telling his girlfriend all about the car, which everything they are saying is wrong and after telling there girlfriend that a car is a kit and there stock civic could take it. You walk over and open the door and then show them the 400HP Chevy 350 in the back of it. There face gets all red and they slink away,I just stand there laughing.

 

And a left-handed monkey wrench to install them with?

 

 

Some nut at the gas station said "Is that the new Matiz with a blower?" He was referring to the Daewoo Matiz . My reply was "Look at the emblems on the boot". His reply was "What's a boot?" . I just ignored him after that.......

Another guy at the PX asked me "How is your PT Cruiser?". I just ignored him too.

I get this all the time. Next time I may not ignore them and give an answer they dont want to hear!

 

i guess the worse i've had is:


"is that a hyundai?"

 

Weasels are good . . . remember

 

"What kind of gas milage to you get with that car?"
This is a very popular one for some reason. I could think of all kind of good comebacks, but I'm too nice. I just laugh to my self when I'm filling up for $35 and they are gassing their SUV for $85.

 

My brother once had a Sunbeam Tiger. He loved opening the bonnet at gas stations to show off the 260 Ford V8 (this was an early Tiger, the later ones had the 289). People would say something like, "Wow, how did you stuff that V8 in there?" and he would just say, "I didn't. Carroll Shelby did!"

 

I thought there was a mini in the bourne identity... but it was the classic

 

Yeah it was a classic Mini in that movie...

 

I've had the "where's the rest of the car" comment along with many others similar to those mentioned here. Out family has a kind of weird taste in cars. I have the MINI, my Dad has Prowler, and when my sister got her xB she would always ask us "how do you deal with all the attention?"

I just wait for the day someone in a large SUV makes a nasty comment about my car, so I can reply "At least I didn't have to remorgage my house to fill up the gas tank."

 

Just curious - quotes #2 and #3... what vehicles were they in?

 

Well it's not like there's much metal left over after they make your bohemoth!

 

A kid in Tennesee thought my Union Jack was a confederate flag!

 

"Aren't you afraid of big trucks coming up behind you fast?"

Not really, big trucks are not able to keep up with me.

 

Yeah, I've had the "Why do you have the confederate flag on the top of you car?" too. That's when I reply that "it's British." Then they have that "huh?" look, and I have to add "...from England"

 

Many, many, many years back when my wife was just a blushing bride her '67 Bug started over heating, she pulled into a friendly service or was that sir-vice station. Mr Bad Wrench informed her , "What this baby needed is a new radiator core."
Odd for an air cooled engine.

 

My former room mate(a classic Mini owner) looked over my JCW Mini and in a tone of disgust proclaimed "It's not a classic Mini", and my response was "you're right, this one actually starts and drives every day".

 

Soon after I brought home Malibu Stacy, my neighbor and her grandson came over for a looksy. Barbara (my neighbor) told the boy she was sure I wouldn't mind if he sat in it. While I didn't really want a 5 year old climbing around, I opened the driver door. He was not the least bit interested. Barbara then tries to get him excited by pointing inside and saying, "Look, there's a cupholder!". The kid takes a look, turns around with a dead-pan face, and with as much attitude as such a little guy can muster fires back, "My mom's car has a cupholder." I don't know what his mom drives (I think a generic SUV), but this dude didn't think my MINI could hold a candle to it! Barbara, however, thinks it's cute.

 

"you should drive a bigger car" after he almost ran me off the road because he didn't see me... during the daytime!

 

Well, yeah, but you got the stealth thing goin on.