It's FUNKY not CUTE
 

Ok, let's set this straight, from this moment on Mini Coopers are to be refered as Funky little cars. NOT CUTE!. I'm a 42 year old male, husband, father of two. I do not drive a CUTE car, it's FUNKY, maybe even QUIRKY, I can even live with PINTSIZE, but is not CUTE. Puppies are CUTE, All Babies are CUTE (at least to their parents:grin: ), even a movie can be CUTE, BUT not my MINI, it's FUNKY!!!

OK, I feel better now, my shrink was right:nod: venting rules!!!!!!!

Sorry man, but all Minis are cute, even the most blacked out ones - its just the shape and lines (and size in context to other cars/trucks) - nothing you can do about it but embrace your cuteness :)

Just think of it as your little POCKET ROCKET :roll: :eek2: :razz: :lol:

LOL

What he said.

MINIs are CUTE! I aint never seen a "mean" MINI.

Anyone that calls it cute hasn't ridden one! :nod: At least not if it was being driven the way I drive it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Earl

Cute is the way it looks - Funky is how it will smell after your passengers toss their cookies after driving with you it seems :lol: j/k :)

Its still cute. Even FB Tims is CUTE!

Judging by the overwhelming number of teenagers (mostly girls) swarming all over the Mini exhibit at the Detroit Auto Show, it is apparently, a cute car. As a middle-aged father of two small children I also abhor the car being called cute (which happens often to me), but I just live with it since I knew what I was getting into.

-Keith

some can be badarse... none are really funky, but most are cute...
like mine! how can a PINK MINI be anything other than cute?

CUTE ... they are ALL CUTE:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumb sup:

Yup sorry, they're cute. Your just going to have to come to grips w/ that.:lol:

those of you that say ALL are cute have not met Hal 4.0... she has WAY too many HP to be cute :razz:

shes HOT!!!

If you are a 18yr girl .....Its cute
If you are a 42yr old male......It's ECCENTRIC

HP dont mean squat. Its CUTE http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/23/23_20_81.gifThey are Cute:)
You can have 1000 HP and it still looks CUTE

a rose by any other name is still a rose...

THEY'RE CUTE!:lol: :lol: :lol: Mick

It takes a 40+ year old male like me,
 

that's very happy and secure, to admit that I own and drive a cute car. But I also don't mind wearing pink or other colors (favs are blue and purple), and have a toe ring! And my wife is happy with the whole package!

If you're happy in your own skin, the labels shed like water off a duck!

I like it being cute, as opposed to ugly like the recently deceased Firebird, or just harsh, like a Countach or an evo....

And we all know how they go, so live with it, and revel in the cuteness!:nod:

Matt

I don't think this is cute...

http://marcchu.com/eval/evalsig.jpg

or this:razz::razz:

http://digitaltuls.com/hal/castles_sm.JPG

^^
*drools a little*

even this one is not exactly cute

http://digitaltuls.com/queen/shadows.JPG

Tuls...your baby is so-o-o CUTE, oh sorry, I mean, Tuls! Your baby is so MACHO! ! ...and baby girls, the pink MINIs are Divas! :lol: Mick

From a New York Times article on the science of cuteness, back in January (emphasis added by me):

"Scientists who study the evolution of visual signaling have identified a wide and still expanding assortment of features and behaviors that make something look cute: bright forward-facing eyes set low on a big round face, a pair of big round ears, floppy limbs and a side-to-side, teeter-totter gait, among many others."

Enough said. :)

nope... shes just precious :razz:

I appreciate the sentiment Tuls since I really did not want a cute car and it was one of the things that made me not want a Mini at first, but although my aero grills may make it a little less cheerful I cannot deny that the overall shape of the car is indeed cute as they all are :)

The nice part about photos is that artistically one can put the car in circumstances, lighting and frame it in such a way to give it a different impact, perhaps emote different feelings based on what the photographer wants to communicate - but I can't argue that when Minis are on the street and in context with other things they are all adorable :grin: