My answer to it all would be "I hope this is not an over-rated shop".

 

Sometimes I get some really interesting looks or comments when I get out of my GFs MC. I'm 6'6" and fit just FINE it in. But when I get out and stand all the way up, ppl are like, "wow".

Twice now, people have asked me to get back in so that they could see how roomy it really was inside. dude was impressed.

Here in NJ / eastern PA we usually don't get the clown car thing - there are lots of MINIs around. When they first came out, they were considered a chick car for 2002-2004 or so - but now are widely regarded as a trendy cool car.

 

I had a guy that owns a Honda give me crap about driving a chick car and I told him the following...

Hondas are like tampons, every P***Y needs one!

He asked me if I had even seen his car and I told him that I had not and probably never would because it would never be more than just a little dot in my rear view mirror.

 

Nothing like sinking to the moron's level to show him who's got it together. (Not that I don't do that myself on occasion)

 

I just got a t-shirt that says, "It's not CUTE...it's MEAN."

One other note about where I lived in Germany: they held widely-attended annual off-road rallies that were just SPECTACULAR; rally cars of all kinds, and put me squarely in mind of "Herbie". Once the Mini trend took off among the military folks there, there was no stopping the cult wave. Some really awesome Minis there, too!

 

Um, unless it indicates a Mini on it somewhere, it could be intepretted to have a whole other meaning.....

 

Yes, here in texas where ever I go to people really appreciates the Mini .

 

YES, the MINI is a chick car! (All the chicks love it).

Anyway, all the guys that get into our MCS say, "Wow, I can't believe this car drives like this."

 

Oops, I left that key information out...the words are printed on a silhouetted Mini.

Non-Mini enthusiasts just don't understand.

 

I was playing poker with a bunch of city policemen and made the joke that if they wanted to see something funny, to watch my 6' 4" frame get into my Cooper S at the end of the night. One of them responded with "yeah, we were wondering who the chick was." My response: "oh, so you must be the guy overcompensating for a small package with the fire engine red '85 Corvette parked out front." That stopped the laughing.

 

Thats too funny.. I just had a large pickup truck pull up next to me at a light recently with two guys (apparently Wal-Mart at 3am type customers) laughing at
my MINI and revving their pollution producing rust bucket to indicate that they wanted to race and my 12 year old daughter just busted out laughing at them.
I think they were so embarassed by a 12 year old girl laughing at their truck and then I did my vanishing act (didn't want to get shotgunned).

Edit: Sorry I forgot to mention that I drive a Cabrio with the top down so you can clearly observe the 12 year old laughing even from the height of a
Fix Or Repair Daily pickup.

 

I've had my Mini since last June and at first I was a little nervous about it being small. I almost put it up for sale. I've been driving it a lot lately and on 2 different ocassions I had to swerve around debri that fell off a truck at high speeds. I have dsc and it handled great. I felt really secure and if I was driving my Xterra it might have flipped.

 

People at my office made a couple of comments about it at first, then I took a couple of them for a ride in it. Now I just rub their faces in it and remind them that this thing is quick and gets way better gas mileage than them. And to add insult to injury I usually park it right up near the back door of the office and get some shade, no one else can park there cause their car sticks out too far and they have to park their cars out in the South Florida sun.

 

this is a post i could easily regret - perhaps on my next drive...

one of the potential benefits of a "chick's car"? consider this:

i've put 97k on mine in five years

i enjoy spirited driving, normally consider +10 to be within reason, and on certain early mornings in certain special places the car might have seen quite a bit more. the laws of probability, and the history of my license, through a long series of sports cars would argue that i should have tickets...

yet i do not. (yet) except for the one my son and i got coming back from VIR a couple of years ago (he's still laughing at me).

i have a nickel here that says a red vette doing exactly the same travel would have drawn more fire, and produced some craters in my record...

so call it what you will - i'm ready to chuckle at anything. i can carry groceries around corners in excess of 1g, and still afford the groceries! why should i be ill humored?? [not eggs of course].

knock wood.

 

I played college football when I got mine. You wouldnt believe all the crap I got until a few of my teammates rode in it or got left in its dust.

By far the best reaction I have gotten was when I pulled up next to a friend while doing errands one day, and I revved the engine. A guy in a big F-250 looked over at me with his window rolled down and said, "wanna put in the bed".

 

Not just that but it is one of the "Best Affordable Tech Cars" according to Auto Yahoo.

 

A guy I work with was skeptical till he (not the smallest guy in the world) sat in the passengers seat and was "comfortable"...

Since then he admires the car and doesnt critisize it... Untill he pulls a "I can fit your car in my truck bed".. Then I say can we do it then you drive me around?

That keeps him quiet..

 

A possible repost and quite possibly NSFW:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=p53hGw-T8vE

Uhhhhmmmmaaazinggg!

 

 

You are assuming they read.

 

 

I've been hearing stuff like that since 2000 when I bought my M Coupe

Clown shoe car is what most people call it

here is my other clown car in action

 

Good flick Miniphatty!

And Squirlz? That was an excellent SUV article. I always thought I had the right mindset all these years. Biggest car I ever owned was a '70 Dodge Polara.

 

yeah i get crap all the time. im a firefighter so you can figure it out. so i had a co worker (she) , tell me she was going to take my man card away . im like what? shes like yeah you drive one of those !@#$$% cars. so i told her she could put her big mouth and fat *** in the seat next to me and i would give her fat *** a white knuckle ride she wouldnt forget. its funny she said , i didnt say it wasnt fast. needless to say she got in her big ford suv and drove her fat *** away . probably to a gas station and paid about 100 bucks to fill it up.

 

"It's a chick's car." Tell you what, it attracts women like crazy!