Teehee

 

Short of issues like flipping over, when it comes to hitting hard objects or being hit by other cars, unfortunately for us that mantra holds true. While it's true that the Mini is safe from the standpoint that it has a lot of airbags and the passenger compartment is strong enough to resist intrusions, the fact is the more deformable material and mass you have around you, the more it is able to absorb the shock of a hit which in turn will not get transferred to the meatbags occupying the vehicle. Accident statistics confirm this, occupants of small vehicles suffer mode bodily injuries than those occupying large vehicles, especially when the two are involved in the same accident.
We love our Mini but I'm not kidding myself, if God forbid either my wife or myself would be hit hard by an SUV, it would not be good for us.

 

bwahaha! that is exactly what i would have said

 

My favorite:

Some guy who has a bit of an ego for his G8 told me that the Mini is a basic, entry level car... Um... sure. Just because it's small does not mean it's crappy...

 

A friend walked into my garage last night and saw my Mini under the its cover because I don't drive it in the winter and he says, "Do you ever drive your Gremlin?" I shrugged and said, yeah only when its nice out.

 

@ Mini Powa! Sig...so im not the only one that gets weird looks when i wave at other mini owners! i get extra weird looks when i wave at them in my cargo van!!

 

You should ask him how Pontiac is doing these days as a brand, considering the great, non-basic, non-entry level cars they are making.
Oh wait!

 

"I live in Chicago, i NEED All-wheel drive"

When asked how many times they got stuck last year in the _____ AWD SUV they were driving a reply of "only a few" came out.

I then mentioned that i have a "correct wheel drive" BMW with Blizzaks and NEVER had a problem. My MINI with worn out summer tires was a challenge in deep snow though. ;-)

 

I've only had my JCW 3 days and someone told me that they liked my new Fiat. Ugh.

 

I got the PT Cruiser comment last week! AND, it was from an Advance Auto employee. He was looking up a drive belt, and asked if it was Chrysler (to put into their computer). So not directly PT Cruiser, but that must have been the thought going on there. I've read so many PT comments in this thread, and couldn't believe it, and now it happened to me. But in this case, I'll cut him some slack. He wasn't trying to just make chit chat not knowing anything. He was trying to get a job done, and needed info. Sure he worked at an auto parts store, but I've come to expect less from the bigger stores, and he could be new anyway. It didn't bother me. Someone walking up to me in a parking lot calling my car a Chrysler would have me turning my back to them and leaving without comment, however. I gladly tell people my motor is Chrysler based, though. It's the most reliable part on the car :-)

 

As a Subaru owner I must object
FWD is the worst for a performance car BUT Mini is just about THE best FWD platform there is and the times I wished it was RWD were very few and far between.

 

I got a lot of questions (after years showing up for work in a succession of BMWs and Audis) when I bought my MINI. When the new MINI's were first announced in, what maybe 1999?, I made a red one my screensaver because I thought they were just so cool. But I was too concerned with image in those days and never seriously considered buying one.

Now, I am certain people who are accustomed to seeing me in an X5, A4 or TT are scratching their heads. They may think I've fallen on hard times or have lost my mind buying a "cute", "girl's", "clown" or "gay" car. They're perhaps too polite to phrase it that way, so what I tend to hear is a puzzled question, like "MINI, huh?" or "Why a MINI???".

I reply with a line that sums it up quite accurately (it was once used in an Audi commercial): "I'm making up for the seriousness of my youth."

 

When I first got my MCS, my friends asked how I could afford an Italian car (The Italian Job). I then tried explaining that it wasn't Italian, but English, but that BMW owns it so it's sort of German. I gave up on that and told them that I worked a long time for it. All confused, they asked me how many people can fit in it and I responded by telling them that Mark Wahlberg and I fit four people and a safe in the trunk. They stood there blank faced.

 

I work in an office of middle-aged women, so I get "Your car is sooooo cute," all the time. It stung a couple of times in the beginning, but I know that they all meant it as a compliment. I've taken a couple of them for a ride in the Mini after that comment, and it DEFINITELY changed their outlook a bit.

 

I hate hate hate when people call my car cute. I don't drive cutesy cars. My mom would always call my last car (a Mazda3 hatch cute) and it bothered me so much! It was way beyond that with everything I did to it. I know some people might consider the Mini cute, but to me, it actually looks like a car, and not like those little roller skates (like the new Scion iQ...). I may be a girl driving a "cute" car, but please don't tell me MY Mini is cute I might punch you.

 

What makes that last comment so funny...There's a Scion ad below it.

or at least there was when I read it.

 

I reply with a line that sums it up quite accurately (it was once used in an Audi commercial): "I'm making up for the seriousness of my youth."[/QUOTE]

Good one !!

 

This isn't about a Mini but is really stupid nonetheless.

I was at the Motor Show in DC this year and was looking at a Volt with a couple other people. The Chevy rep was explaining how the car works and some guy who had a particular hatred for the Volt was just looking for things to rip on.

When the rep explained that you could drive for a while solely on battery power, the guy said something like, "That's stupid. When you run out of juice, you have to call a tow truck!" The rep then explained how the gas engine could then be used to charge the battery enough to run the car and the fuel efficiency of that method.

Then he said smugly, "Well, what do you do when you run out of gas? It still doesn't make any sense." To which I replied, "What do you do when a normal car runs out of gas?"

Still looking for something bad to say about the car, he muttered something about how he wouldn't buy it because the glove compartment doesn't have a lock and hos anyone can steal his gloves.

I'm not a big Volt fan, but I really don't understand the hatred towards the car.

 

^ Same thing with the Mini. Some people hate on it, it's all about the emotional response that a certain car triggers. There is nothing to understand about it besides the fact that said people suffer from a complete lack of emotional maturity. They are the bread and butter of the marketing departments everywhere.
It applies to everything you can think of. iPhone vs Android, American vs Import, Chevy vs Ford, etc.

 

My co-worker said it's more of a mini pooper, he's just so full of s_it.

 

Mine's a MINI Pooper!



Dave

 

"Mini's are for Girls!" Robby Gordon just before losing the 2012 Dakar to the mini team. Robby was racing his multi million dollar, and very masculine, Hummer.

 

it gets called a girl car all this time. usually it is just people on the internet or people who have no clue about cars. I have been called gay for driving it too, but that person is probably confused about his sexuality for stating that in the first place. Saying "I would never drive a mini people might think I'm gay."

Everyone has their own taste, people don't say the Nissan 370z is a girls car, but i have seen a few girls own them. on a side note most of them are very good looking and owning a car like that ups their looks 2x.

 

Get this all the time, "how do you fit in that thing?" I am 6'3 and I just say "I took the front seat out and I sit in the back." They think I'm serious... how I feel afterwards...

 

Snorting wine through my nose as I read this. Thanks