ugh I love my mini very much but so many people making stupid comments, like "thats a girl car" or "nice car is it your girlfriends?"

hands down the funnest car I ever drove but it seems most people see it as a girly car... i dont really care i love my car but its annoying

 

amen.... i dont think the jokes to them ever gets old..... bottom line is though.. .it is your car, ignore what the naysayers might say, they can claim this and that but in the end of the day, who's driving the fun mini and who's driving the boring jetta?

 

is it an s or a regular one

 

About those people it is said, "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubts."

 

Funny? One of the young guys I work with introduced me to the notion of "chick cars" and pointed them out to me. It ruined several for me - not that I was going to buy any of them, but after finding that out, I could never think about them without thinking of that. He never mentioned the MINI. I don't think he was just being nice, since he has talked about getting one himself.

Maybe it depends where you live. I would find it annoying, too. People here seem to respect them.

 

My wife has a plate holder for her 325i that says 'No, it is not my husbands car !'

Maybe you could get something similar

Or just realise that the joke is on them as they get into their boring POS ?

 

To me, the biggest chick car is a Jetta.

People will ask if a MINI is a chick car only to try to get on your nerves. IMO, the only people who can question the "masculinity" of a car are those guys driving around muscle cars that they work on themselves, as I think they've earned the right to tease others.

 

Only cars where we live that my wife and I agree are "chick" cars, are SUV's. That's who 80% of the drivers are.

Though, this particular car might be a chick car...

 

I've got two easy answers to such questions depending on the situation:

1) Yes, this is my wife's car. . . my MINI is green.
2) No, this is my car, my wife's MINI is purple.

 

Tell them to smack your butt and pinch your boobies then!

 

Why, are you saying only the S is a girls car?

 

Should I be expecting to get "moobs" soon?

 

Just say, its mine and i have nothing to compensate for

You can't let dumb bitter insecure types get to you. Besides, in the end they always change their tune if they ever drive one

 

everyone always tells me the normal cooper is a girls car and the s is a guys car. no one ever accepts my challenges to an autocross though ;]

 

Wow. It's almost like this topic never gets old - which is cool, because this way I get multiple opportunities to bring up the generally offensive nature of considering anything as "chick" appropriated, particularly when it's always derrogatory.

Honestly, I NEVER get sick of making this point, and I just can't wait til the next opportunity rolls around (oh please. oh please. let it be tomorrow.)...

 

true that

 

I like "No, it's how I met her though!"

Or "No, but she could smoke your a$$ in it, I'm sure!"

 

Its what you want. Don't listen to ignorant people. Listen to what you want.

 

I used to get the "chick car" thing all the time in my Silver 2K VW Beetle.
The only comments I have gotten in my Mini have been good ones.
I have gotten alot of questions and big smiles.
My teens friends love it....they've seen the Italian Job

I guess where you live is a factor. Mini's are rather rare in my neck 'o the woods.
And I agree, most SUV drivers around here are women with cell phones growing out of their ears and 1.2 microscopic children somewhere inside them.

 

im saying most people think the regular non s is a girls car and the guys is the s

 

I'd love to see the official results of that particular poll. I obviously missed it first time around.

I consider them both to be exceptional drivers cars myself......

Around here I see about 50-50 split of Coopers and Cooper S's.

I also see an approximatey 50-50 split of guys and girls driving.

Add to that I see Mini drivers ranging from teenage to 'old age'. Again a fairly even split.

Plus there is a decent split between black/white/asian/whatever I would say that 'white guys' are possibly the majority here, but its tough to say

Seems to me that there is no one demographic that either model appeal to.

 

As a SUV driver, thats pretty insulting ...

But is a chick, gay, clown and toy car ... everybody know that already.

This must be like thread #217 on this subject .... doesn't anybody do searches anymore before just bringing up the same old stuff over and over again

OK, its OK, we can go over it again.. .

No, its not a chick car, No its not a gay car ... No its not a clown car ..... But it is CUTE Car ... if you dont like it being called cute ... tuff ... its cute

And gromit ... :impatient considering its the holiday season.

Merry Christmas

 

Haha, just be like, "No its mine" and if they have any sort of flashy, expensive, or large car just throw in "Nice car you have there though, what are you compensating for?" and point to their car lol.

BEATNUT

 

Ok this whole compensating thing is getting old, what size car you drive has nothing to do with the size of anything else.

Chows its not CUTE or even cute, its bad---.

Next time fire up your engine and don't waste oyur time with those who want to ridicule your car choice life is too short, fire up the engine chirp the tires and eb done with them.

Search is your friend

 

i think people say that the "S" is the boys model, because it has the manly hood scoop. Lol