Better to have a chick car than a D*ck car like this:

 

 

We should get a list together of the best responses when people make these types of remarks...

 

+1 and sticky

 

If I hear the usual exclamations about the car, "chick", "gay", "clown", my usual retorts are "You've just been *****-slapped", "prepare to get bent over", and "The joke's on you".

 

Take the critics for a spin in the twisties. They'll sing a different song about your Mini after they're done cleaning the vomit off themselves.
Eating crow has a bad aftertaste.

 

It is a chick car....when you drive it you can pick up lots of "chicks" Women love this car. I test drove one for a week and I can't tell you how many conversation starters I had with it. Im tellin ya I can't wait to get my sidewalk cabrio next month! Definately a chick car!

 

Maybe it is a chick car. I see hot chicks driving them all the time. I smile and wave, as do they.

Motor on!

 

I think my all time favorite response to my car was a guy at USA muffler. I had a bad resonator on my miltek and asked them to cut it out and replace it with a glass pack (tired of it rattling). It was nice outside, so they let me hang in the garage while they did the work.

As his friend is pulling it on the lift to start the work we have this conversation.

him: That is a OVER-RATED car!
me: what?
him: Your car is over-rated.
me: why?
him: it's over-rated.
me: have you ever worked on, sat in, or driven one
him: no. they're over-rated.
me: so, why do you say it's over-rated if you've never work on, sat in, or driven one?
him: it's just over-rated...
me:

I honestly had no idea what to say, so I just stood there in silence while he welded my glass pack in. Talk about an awkward 30 minutes

 

I hear you. I got a lot of the same thing when I announced I had ordered my MINI. Most people thought it was cool but I got a couple of "you got a death wish?", "it's a toy car", etc. I asked each person that had that response these questions:''

Have you ever ridden in or driven one? The answer was always "NO".

Have you visited the MINI web site and really checked them out? again...."NO".

Do you even know who owns MINI or where they are made? "NO"

Do you know this first thing about MINI? "NOOOOO"

So, it's a classic case of people running at the mouth and not having the faintest clue regarding what they are talking about.

 

Indeed, it is a chick car. That is why I make sure to have one with me when I drive it.

 

I have been looking at a Mini for a while now and I always have some person offering unsolicited comments like "that car is too small" & "what if you get hit by an SUV"

The logical extension of that "thought"-process is that given a few years we should all be driving M1A1 Abrams assault tanks just IN-CASE we get in an accident. Europe and South Africa have however predominantly got small cars that are zippy, fun and safe.

 

In MKO we all have custom magnets in the colors of our MINIs that say "You Have Just Been Smoked by a CLOWN CAR" and slap them on our MINIs' bumpers at the Dragon.

 

Anyone know if the fireballed Mini will make an appearance at MOTD?

 

I want to see pictures!

 

Being a chick, I don't get the "chick car" thing quite so much. But I have gotten quite razzed about it. My family particularly! I also have a big Ford F150 Supercrew (4door 4x4), which dad calls "the school bus" (it's WHITE & silver; what school bus is WHITE????) When I told them I got a Mini, they just laughed and kept asking me, "where's the windup key?" I almost got that on my license plate!

My soldiers, however, stopped laughing when I was unloading a LOT of stuff for a big function with their help,...and the stuff kept coming and coming and coming! Two of them even went out and bought one after that!

The best, though has been my husband's conversion. I bought my first '04 MCS after my first deployment, when I got back to Germany. He thought I was nuts, and was the loudest about the "clown car" "chick car" "waste of money" thing. That is, until he rode with me up in the mountains, with the hair-pin turns (and yeah, I was going at least 40-50mph!) and didn't have an "oh SH&*" bar! He called that road the "Toboggan of Death." When we decided to upgrade cars after my second deployment, he actually started listening to the dealer and all the great things about the Mini -- ESPECIALLY since it now has that lovely hang-on bar on the passenger side. He's now become the biggest recruiter/booster of Mini owners around! He doesn't understand the MINIac insanity, gender association/naming thing, but hey...he's a work in progress.

 

I had to read that twice!

 

Someone posted on here way back when about this subject that made me chuckle.

'Whenever someone calls my MINI a clown car, I rip off my red foam nose and say "Now listen here, sir..."'

 

......is interesting......


....most guys that I have talked to since buying the car have been really curious. HP, MPG....handling....blah blah blah... I took my neighbor for a ride. When he got home "I want me one of these!! Blankety-blank MPH and shifting INTO 6th gear......OMG!!!"

....in my case, it has been most of the women who have been unimpressed.

Go figure.....

 

[quote=Desert_Sand;2172608....in my case, it has been most of the women who have been unimpressed.

Go figure.....[/quote]

Are you still talking about the Mini here?

 

It doesn't bother me because car enthusiast know what's up.

 

Exactly. I have gotten as many thumbs-up from folks driving classic British sports cars and motorcycle enthusiasts as from other MINI motorers.

 

Here is a brilliant editorial on the SUV fad. It's long, but a very worthwhile read. Print it out and show it too your friends.

 

ive told a few people im interested in minis... didnt mention i ordered one and i always get "dude... dont get that chick car"

i dont care, i live in two worlds, college related world and a NAM world and i must say i love the NAM world. I find it impossible to convert non-enthusiast with logic. i guess when they see my car at somepoint, they can find some other cooper driver to give them a test ride... ill take vindictive pleasure in their curiosity.

 

Yes we are....

...I get most of the off color comments from women about the CAR....