It won't be real if you let the termites get to it.

 

This might be the best one yet. I hope you were amused rather than angry.

 

Hey, with over a hundred years of safety improvements, you can't possibly get hurt driving that MINI.

 

I know this is an old post, but the answer should have been, "No, and you can't bench press half that!"

 

In my prime of weight lifting I got to a 235 bench press :P

I wish my 2013 mini cooper weighed 500 pounds less. The possibilities would be endless.

 

I here this a lot in one form or another, "Those aren't actually BMW's, the engines are designed and made by dodge and also used in the neons. They are really just a fancy dodge neon or pt cruiser with the same cheap construction."

 

Male Narcissist Coworker: It's amazing how smart cars are now that they are run by computers. Mine can even tell how fit I am.

Me: What do you mean?

Male Narcissist Coworker: Every time I start it a light on the dash says Abs.

It might be tongue in cheek, but its still stupid.

 

So I thought I would retaliate for the stupid question in many posts like this one. I saw a rough looking guy yesterday getting off a Harley in a parking lot. He had a helmet with a confederate flag on it. When I walked by, I said, "I didn't know Harleys were British motorcycles." The guy looked at me like I was an idiot. Given the potential consequences of my comment, I guess I am.

 

A buddy of mine and myself traded cars for a couple days so I could get both the mini and the rally car to a show. He took the rally car and I took his explorer. We each put $40 in the respective tanks. I drove it to work once and to the wife's school once, then back to his house to trade cars back. The trip estimator said there were about 60 miles left to empty. While handing him the keys back

Him: how much fuel is left in it?
Me: Says bout 60 miles to empty.
Him: Oh, That's plenty.
Me: Yeah, you got like 7 gallons left.
Him:
Me:


Then we both laughed.

 

it was the mid '90's, I was driving a Dodge Shadow ES convertible. FUN car, punchy turbo and nimble, better than its pedestrian reputation, tho the chop for the drop top made it a bit flexible/unstable. I miss it, but I feel right at home in a MINI

I was at a stoplight, with the top down, in front of the local Caterpillar plant; the UAW was on strike and there were three guys out picketing.

striker - "hey you"
me - "huh?"
striker - "yeah, YOU!"
me - "what?"
striker - "DRIVE AMERICAN!"
me - "what?"
striker - "you heard me, DRIVE AMERICAN!"
me - "it's a Dodge, you MORON"

the befuddled look on his face, with the other two guys doubled over laughing was hilarious

no intent to make fun of union folks - my wife is one - was just funny

 

Years ago I drove a Singer Gazelle convertible a sweet little car that I'd fallen in love with, at a car sale. It had been brought down from the north to my small hometown in Idaho. I thought I'd heard every wise crack there was to hear until I went to buy a new battery. The salesman looked at it's Singer emblem and said with a very straight face, "Don't you mean bobbin?'

 

...new member, and I just got to this one (on page 36) and when I saw the question and then the photo I laughed so hard I sprayed beer on my monitor!


Regards,
XLXRider

 

I don't know if something like this has been said before but here is my contribution:

At the 2013 NY auto show at the Porsche area a comment I over heard a few feet away.

Some kid: It's not that fast it only has 350bhp

Me to my brother: Yeah because power is the only factor in a cars speed.

 

I young lady come to me when I was driving my mini car and said to me how you can sit in it because I am 100 kg and I am very fat and did not fit to sit.

 

I was at the store in my MINI and some dude comes up to me and says you know they come with a V6 now I looked at him like yeah whatever lol

 

I stupidest thing I have ever had said to me about one of my cars is that I was at a Pep-boys getting some parts for a friend. I was driving my 33 ford coupe street rod.
The MANAGER of the store comes thru the door and says "is that your Prowler out there". Yes I said he was the manager of the store. If the idiot can't tell the difference in a prowler and a 33 coupe just how in the hell can he tell the difference in parts. Last time I have gone to a Pep-Boys.

 

When I bought my first MINI in 2003, they were relatively new to the US and very new to the South. I had to drive from TX to TN to pick it up. Motoring home to the Gulf Coast through the back roads of the Deep South, I stopped at a back-country gas station (cue the tune of Deliverance here...), and pulled up next to a guy filling his jacked up pickup, you know, where the filler is at eye level. His eyes just about popped out, and as I started filling he suspended his chewing long enough to ask: 'so what's that thayng'? My response: 'it's a MINI'. Then I was done filling and went inside to pay as he continued to chew & spit in deep consternation. When I came back out (he was still filling), I got in my MINI and as I was getting ready to take off heard him mutter: 'yep, ain't nuttin' big 'bout it, that's f'sure...'

 

I have a convertible, when a friend of mine saw my mini the first time, he said, what are you going to drive in the winter? I will drive my mini...it has a heater,,, and a roof, if I chose to use it. lol

 

One of 20 other kids in my Ag class who all drive dirty beat up trucks one day wile we were waiting for the bell to ring said
"Hey your car has a front trunk right?"
And I had to reply with
" I'm sorry but what?!?!?"

Took my car to MAG MINI of Dublin to install the JCW Sound kit and after we dropped it off I had my dad look at one of the countrymans that they had in a showroom because I'm lobbying for my mom to get one (fingers crossed) and one of the people working there (keep in mind these people sell minis) asked if my mini was a special edition due to the green top and BRG paint. I didn't know it was that rare!

 

I have never seen a green rag top. I didn't even know you could get them that way... so yes, it sounds rare. I know you could at one time get "blue jeans" for a top.