I'll start the ball rolling with:

Is that an Italian Car?

and.......

Isn't that one of those PT Cruisers? Never seen one that small before...

 

damn where to start.

1. what is that

2. is it fast (lady i got your fast right here)

3.man what pisses me of is that a pt cruiser?!? wtf i should hit you with a 2x4 get your cars straight.

4.why a mini cooper (why not) the funnest car ever

 

I don't know if we are allowed to say this here but ... I had an OLD guy - probably 80 years old - say to me at the gas station a few weeks ago, "that hotrod must get you laid a lot." I pointed to his car and replied, "but not as much as yours, I bet." I hope I have a sense of humor like that when I grow up!

 

damn my uncle said the same thing "that little hot rod gets you pu*#y at school"

 

I was asked, "when did Volkswagon start making those? I liked the old 'new bug' better"... I just laughed and walked away. To much ground to cover if I attempted to redirect they one!

Cheers,
Mark Gibson
'07 MCS cabrio
(no cool sig)

 

I've been asked twice, both times in a drive thru how I like my electric car. My guess is they are hearing the power steering pump.

 

Didn't take long for this thread to slide into the ditch...

 

people asked me if it was supercharged.
and some people even asked me if it was an 'S'
(even WITH the fact that i have 3 'S's on my car..how can you not see that it's a mini cooper s) O.o

 

ah i got it..maybe i should put a big FAT red S on the side of my car and on my sunroof..for the truckers and suv drivers out there.

 

I was at a gas station in OK and a guy asked "what is it?" and then "is it electric?" and I was cool but THEN he said it looked like a clown car and I wanted to smack him.

 

"Look at that S-car go!"

 

heh...

that made me laugh. just had some last night a-thankyouverymuch.

 

Since you didn't specifically say this was about the MINI, here's mine: When we went to get our marriage license last week, after ascertaining my wife was from Tennessee, the clerk asked if we were related. He insisted he asked that no matter where we were from.

 

Well I have one, but it would help put this slip further down. So.. I better not.

 

"Where do the hamsters fit?", (implying that the car is powered by hamsters running on little wheels).

"Who makes that Cooper Mini?", (implying that the car company's name is Cooper, and the model is Mini)

"Doesn't it scare you to drive such a death trap?" (implying that MINI's are unsafe, purely due to how small they are. These are the same folks that think the safest cars are land-yacht-esque '78 Cadillac Eldorados with 6-foot hoods and 6-body trunks).

 

Is Wales in London?

I have been asked that several times when I was living in the USA. (If you dont know why this question is strange, feel free to ask.)

Oh, youre from England. do you know Hugh Grant?

WTF? Been asked that rather a lot when living in the USA too!

 

"Is it fun?"

Of course it is! haha

but seriously, the strangest would have to be "cute car, but can you drive it in the rain?"

 

LOL, Bhozar. When I moved from the Washignton DC area to Boston, an old woman at our apartment building asked if I knew then President Carter. I told her we had lunch every Thursday.

 

Did you answer, "Yes, but it shrunk when it got wet."?

 

The chart topper has to be 'what happens if you get hit by a semi?' - seriously, I was asked that.
'Err, death?'

 

In the 1 month that I have owned my car I have seriously been asked that 3 or 4 times, the last time was yesterday by a co-worker

 

haha no, but I'll save that one for next time

 

At an Arby's Drive-thru: "Nice car - You're not from around here are you?" Granted this was back in '02 when they were pretty new, but it always struck me as funny.

 

Was refueling when a trucker approached-circled the Mini a couple times on foot and asked what is it and who made it. I responded with the usual enthusiasm. Then he said that it was really ugly in a cute kinda way. Then his parting shot was that a big rig would crush it like a beer can. I just smiled. I was so impressed that his room temperature IQ would allow him to utter so many monosyllabic words in a row.

 

My Neighbor came outside and said, "David, is that a real car or one of those electric cars?"