>>One of my co-workers calls it the "MINI pooper" :evil:
>>
>>Maby its anger comming from that he has to drive a minivan, hehe.


At the Auto show last week, I kept calling the PT Cruiser, PP Looser. I eventually even got my brother to call it that.

Anyways...

 

>>... a 'Pacer look-a-like!'

http://www.amcpacer.com/images/archi...ow-brchr-t.jpg

 

The day I brought mine home, the neighbor kid (I feel so old saying that) says...
"What is that, a yugo?"
So I replied...
"Why, yes it is."

Hahaha. What?

Lobo

 

My Building super asked "How much ya pay for that little car?" ... When I told him, he said "Damn for that you could have had a loaded up Ford Escort"... I just kept right on washing my MINI... ROFLMAO.... THEY REALLY JUST DON'T GET IT....

 

**SNIP**
>>If anything it could , and I use the word "could" very loosely, be mistaken for a Gremlin. I don't know who made this car but I saw it in Waynes World. We got that first class bit of American Humour in Australia but we missed out on the Gremlin..Damn..Damn...Damn
**SNIP**

like this?



now, maybe if you could make a tent pop out of the boot of that beast.....yummy!

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The security guards where I used to work were fascinated by the MINI. They were always making comments to me...the best was when one said it was a "neato" car!

The usual...electric, PT Cruiser...my boss thought it was made by Chrysler, and when I said it was made by BMW, she said "I'm not paying you enough to buy a BMW!!!" :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: Evil, evil woman...no wonder she is no longer in office anymore.

Erin

 

It was never mistaken that I know of, just a lotta floks thinking and some saying "What the h-- kinda car is that?"
Jim

 

A funny one was when an old fella pulled up beside me at the lights, rolled down his window and went:
- What kinda car is that?
= Mini
- Is it one of those three cylinder cars?

thank god the lights went on and we didn't continue the conversation!
my MINI got insulted :evil: :evil: :evil:

 

When people start to make fun of the Mini for it's size, I just remind them of one simple fact.

"Men seem to drive huge vehicles to make up for the size of their %$#@!, I gues that makes me pretty impressive."

There's not much anyone says after that.

Frank

 

There is a great article on the MINI in the newest European Car. The author states that his wife called it "cute". So, he took her for a test drive and scared her to death and now he is sleeping on the couch!

Take a pinhead for a ride, swerve the masses. Or, just keep it to yourself and let them think what they want. Because, it is all our secret. The more that know, the more that will be out there.

 

>>I went to an auto parts place yesterday to recycle oil, and this guy was in the parking lot messing around with an old BMW 6-series. His comment to me was "nice paint job - real nice paint job!" I realized what he meant after I came back out of the store and he said "Is that a new car? Oh... who makes it?" Etc etc etc. He apparently thought at first that it was a very nicely restored antique.
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>>2003 Red/White Cooper - Brookline, MA

I got one like that before. The first week I owned it, we drove up to Litchfield CT, and some woman in Bantam CT was admiring the car, and told us that it was in great condition! My friend and I looked at each other, thinking, it had better be, its brand new! Then, realized she must have been thinking it was an antique. What we didnt know yet, was that there was an Antique British Car show going on up the road in Litchfield.

 

I grew up in Litchfield! My girlfriend is from Bantam. There are some great twisty roads around there... not many MINIs, though.

 

>>One of my co-workers calls it the "MINI pooper" :evil:
>>
>>Maby its anger comming from that he has to drive a minivan, hehe.


I've gotten the same comment from a co-worker! He calls it my MINI pooper because "it looks to him like a turd pooped out of an SUV."

...he's a classy guy....

 

Someone also made the comment to me that I could have bought an SUV for that price. I said an SUV is too big for me. (4"11) and I didn't want to jump on the SUV bandwagon!!

 

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>>I've gotten the same comment from a co-worker! He calls it my MINI pooper because "it looks to him like a turd pooped out of an SUV." >>
>>...he's a classy guy....

Niiiiice. What's he drive? (and what kind of place do you work where co-workers say things like that!!??)

 

everyone always asks who makes it! i always say bmw cause im not about to explain it to them... but one guy asked "what is that?"
i said: "a mini cooper"
he said: "who makes it? ford?"
*sigh*
oh get this, once as i was walking to my car this guy was like walking around it and looking inside and stuff and he walks back to his car which is a bmw z3
he sees me and says "i like your car"
and i said: "i like YOUR car.."
he said: "wanna trade? take it around the lot?"
i said: "i'd love to, but its brand new and i dont even let my parents touch it..."
that was bizarre...

 

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>>>>I've gotten the same comment from a co-worker! He calls it my MINI pooper because "it looks to him like a turd pooped out of an SUV." >>
>>>>...he's a classy guy....
>>
>>Niiiiice. What's he drive? (and what kind of place do you work where co-workers say things like that!!??)
>>


You know...I don't know what he drives. I work at an ad agency so people are pretty open with opinions around here! He's in the PR department if you can believe that!!

 

I went through a radar trap at 115mph the other day
and they didn't come after me. Perhaps they thought
it was a UFO.....
Seriously.

 

I, too, haven't really gotten the PT Cruiser etc mistakes-- just lots of questions. The funniest thing that's happened to me was the other day, I was puttering around downtown Burbank, trying to find a parking space. I became aware that a police car was following me... no lights or anything, he was just there. So I pulled over. He pulled up beside me and said, "Excuse me. I don't mean to bother you but can I ask you a few questions about your car?"

Cheers,

Leslie

 

I don't even have my MINI yet and it happened to me. I was telling my nephew about the mcs we ordered. He said he had heard of it and even asked which roof color we were getting, so I thought he really did know about the car. :smile:

Then he said. "And Chrysler makes it, right?" ARRRRRGGGGGHHH

Maybe there is a conspiracy. Is Detroit seeking revenge on Germany by use of subliminal mind control? Maybe the SUVs are just a diversionary tactic. hhhmmmmmmnnnnn


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MINI Cooper S: IB/blk with stripes. Ordered 9/9/02. Build week 2/14/03

 

It's been mistaken for SLOW....

Just came back from lunch....oh and toasting a mod'd CRX like a piece of white bread at the local IHOP, or WaffleHouse if you're from the South.

Light turned green and I could see him in my rear view looking like Scotty from StarTrek.."cap'n....I'm giving her all she's got".

VRRROOOOOM....cya

 

It's pretty funny what other people think.... but now that the commercials are airing nationally there will be less queery....

I've been asked if it's a morris minor? what year is it? chrysler? Who makes that?

Answers always MINI, New, NO and MINI.

Someone even asked how much I paid, and guessed $50k... WOOO WOOO!
I didn't feel the need to tell her the truth.... $17K...

It was sweet...

Now there are more and more Mini's... Hey Burbank! Woodland Hills here....

Now about the Rice Rockets.... I admire all their dimestore efforts to produce their fastest rides.... but I've yet to race anyone Tokyo Screamer and lose...

I've had V6's and V8's challenge me... but I just shake my head at them, I mean C'mon! So every now and then I go for it verses an Accord or Acura... either they don't know how to stand on the peddle or shift but I've watched them fade in the rear views.

Once through Burbank on the 134...eastbound, a late model Mustang 5.0 zoomed up on me... so obviously it was "on"! So we did the dangerous freeway shuffle and he couldn't keep up... I give credit to traffic, and Mini's size/handling.... Zippering through like a little hummingbird.

All In All, its fun owning a mini isn't it?

 

My friend in Florida wrote me the other day asking if I was still thinking of getting a Morris Mini-Minor . It took me a couple blonde seconds to realize he was really right on, historically speaking!

 

>>I grew up in Litchfield! My girlfriend is from Bantam. There are some great twisty roads around there... not many MINIs, though.

I would love to live in that area! Its beautiful! I really love Litchfield! and yes, some great roads! When we went, last September, we saw 3-4 other MINIS that day. I didn't really expect to see any others, and was really surprised to see that many. Then we heard about the Antique British Car show, at the Litchfield Inn. I would have loved to have gone to that, but it was pretty much over by the time we got there.

 

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>>Someone even asked how much I paid, and guessed $50k... WOOO WOOO!
>>I didn't feel the need to tell her the truth.... $17K...
>>


Had a similar experience, except I was long gone before I realized that I mis-heard the chap!

After the "What is it?" conversation he asked me if they were expensive.
"Not as expensive as you might think," I said.
"15 thousand?" he asked.
"Well, a bit more than that." I replied.
He winced and smiled while shaking his head and walked away.

It was after I got in the car and was replaying the conversation in my head, that it occurred to me that he had asked if it was 50 thousand!

Oh well.... Now some guy around here thinks that MINIs cost over $50k!