Mini Cooper-A womens car????

Soby

Ive luved Coopers ever since i saw the Italian Job[New Version] but have been put off by always seeing women driving them...Outside of the movie i think ive seen one man....wat you guys think???i know it doesnt matter really like a car is a car and all but just wondering

Beruthiel

Get over yourself. If you like it, drive it.
Why do you need other blokes to tell you that your're a man or not. Don't you know that already? The car does not make the man.

Creamy Goodness

it's a Motor car not an After Hours car tbh.

padi89

Soby wrote:

Ive luved Coopers ever since i saw the Italian Job[New Version] but have been put off by always seeing women driving them...Outside of the movie i think ive seen one man....wat you guys think???i know it doesnt matter really like a car is a car and all but just wondering

"Fvck dat man dem cars is for girls like,get a haanda civic like and be one of da boyyeess like"

If you like the car , get a test drive in it, see how you find it to drive.Nevermind what peoples opinions are on it.I used to love spinning around the city in a little Ford Ka from work , really fun car to drive.

Owen

I sell new MINIs. About 55% lads buy it for handling/power/resale reasons, girls buy about 35%, and the other 10% are retired couples looking to relive their youth. I drive one every day, and most of my male mates drive them too.

r3nu4l

Have to agree with everyone so far...

Great cars and the styling is just right to appeal to both men and women. It's slightly muscular and beefy while still retaining enough feminine curves to be pleasing to the eye Ignoring looks, they are great cars to drive, fun, frisky, good handling and depending on the engine/version can be powerful too.

After re-reading that maybe I should apply for a job writing up reviews for car mags

Cormic

To play devils advocate I will say that the Mini is a girley car. As is the new Beetle and the Hyundai Coupe.

kaimera

Cooper-S ftw

Lurk

Soby wrote:

Ive luved Coopers ever since i saw the Italian Job[New Version] but have been put off by always seeing women driving them...

..and overtaking you in your Corsa

Owen

lol Cormic, any day boyo, I'll take you for a spin in a Cooper S. More PTW that a Golf GTi, the best handling car in it's class, 5 years servicing for 250 Euro, and the best residuals. I guarantee you you'll change your mind. Any 'hotshot' who comes into the Dealership thinking that a MINI is a girls car quickly changes their mind after seeing what one can do. It's far from girly. Check out the John Cooper Works race challenge!

Binomate

If you start driving a mini cooper, the next step logically, is dressing up in women's clothes. Keep that in mind.

Pighead

Binomate wrote:

If you start driving a mini cooper, the next step logically, is dressing up in women's clothes. Keep that in mind.

And that does that apply if its the opposite way around? Pighead never realised he was destined to own a Mini Cooper.

fish-head

The new Mini Coopers are just fantastic I think. The old ones, however, are far too small for a person of my stature.

optiplexgx270

You dont have to be a woman to drive one - just gay.

MrJoeSoap

Myself and the mates have a thing about the mini, I'd say 75%+ of the time is a cracking burd driving it!

Ruu_Old

Moved to Motors.

MrJoeSoap

#Elites wrote:

has to be black!:D

Saw a pink one the other day, but black or dark blue with those white stripes on the bonnet looks quality.

afatbollix

to be manly in one you need a very big engine one....

Owen

There's no big engine Anto ... they're all 1.6's with the exception of the discontinued 1.4 Diesel, and the 1.4i that will come in the near future. There is a 90Bhp, 115Bhp, 163Bhp, 170Bhp and 210Bhp variant of the existing 1.6, and in the new 1.6, there'll be 120Bhp, 175 Bhp and in the future 220 Bhp.

Owen

MrJoeSoap wrote:

Saw a pink one the other day, but black or dark blue with those white stripes on the bonnet looks quality.

Pink would be interesting. It's never been an available colour, nor will it be, but there was a company in the UK specialising in doing a full colour conversion. I'm nearly certain the one you spotted belongs to a DJ in Dublin.

MrJoeSoap

ned78 wrote:

Pink would be interesting. It's never been an available colour, nor will it be, but there was a company in the UK specialising in doing a full colour conversion. I'm nearly certain the one you spotted belongs to a DJ in Dublin.

Well I saw it in Blanchardstown beside the centre, didn't see the driver though.

Larry David

Cormic wrote:

To play devils advocate I will say that the Mini is a girley car. As is the new Beetle and the Hyundai Coupe.

Agree 100%. Totally girls cars.

Owen

Ah yes, because the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jay Kay are all girls. Do you know anything about cars? Yes I'm biased, but because I'm passionate about the car. The MINI and it's predecessor the Mini are the only classless cars - they appealed to everyone, young, old, male, female, rich or poor.

Larry David

ned78 wrote:

Ah yes, because the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Jay Kay are all girls. Do you know anything about cars? Yes I'm biased, but because I'm passionate about the car. The MINI and it's predecessor the Mini are the only classless cars - they appealed to everyone, young, old, male, female, rich or poor.

I'm referring to the new MINI, which is now almost the size of a Micra, thus losing the "cute small-sized car" appeal is once had. Now it's purley a trendy retro label, like Vespa scooters, & idiots who wear Atari t-shirts.

Owen

Wow. You really know nothing about cars. Take a look at the club website in my sig. There are owners there who own both MINIs and Minis. And I have both too. You become passionate about both. What was great about the old Mini? The looks, the wheels tucked into each corner, the ability to embarass bigger cars, the superb handling, and with the bigger motors, the fantastic rush of power. What Rover did before BMW took them over was take every single one of those qualities and include it in the new one, keeping the fantastic looks. It's not the size of a Micra either mate, it's the size of a Polo, it's deceptively small, you can quite comforatably get 4 adults inside.

It's merely a trendy label? Yes, that's one selling point, but it's so much more than a label. But it's consistently top of the customer satisfaction surveys for reliability, and it genuinely envelops the best of the old Mini, but in a safer, stronger package. Go drive one. You'd be suprised - most of the nay sayers who blab on as if they have a clue have never spent any length of time in them. There's a reason people who drive Classic Minis also buy new MINIs - they're both superb at what they do, and they both make people smile from ear to ear.

MINI is also one of the few cars you can completely customise. The statistic is one in every 8500 MINIs has another one like it on the road. The R56 model launching this month has over 700 interior combinations. Can you get that with a Golf/207? It's all about personality!

junkyard

Sorry but its a girls car and a common one at that. Every time I see a bloke driving one I have my suspicions. The same goes for a bloke driving a BMW Z3, Mazda MX5 or any of the smaller sports cars..... they just don't look right behind the wheel tbh.

Larry David

ned78 wrote:

Wow. You really know nothing about cars. Take a look at the club website in my sig. There are owners there who own both MINIs and Minis. And I have both too. You become passionate about both. What was great about the old Mini? The looks, the wheels tucked into each corner, the ability to embarass bigger cars, the superb handling, and with the bigger motors, the fantastic rush of power. What Rover did before BMW took them over was take every single one of those qualities and include it in the new one, keeping the fantastic looks. It's not the size of a Micra either mate, it's the size of a Polo, it's deceptively small, you can quite comforatably get 4 adults inside.

It's merely a trendy label? Yes, that's one selling point, but it's so much more than a label. But it's consistently top of the customer satisfaction surveys for reliability, and it genuinely envelops the best of the old Mini, but in a safer, stronger package. Go drive one. You'd be suprised - most of the nay sayers who blab on as if they have a clue have never spent any length of time in them. There's a reason people who drive Classic Minis also buy new MINIs - they're both superb at what they do, and they both make people smile from ear to ear.

MINI is also one of the few cars you can completely customise. The statistic is one in every 8500 MINIs has another one like it on the road. The R56 model launching this month has over 700 interior combinations. Can you get that with a Golf/207? It's all about personality!

All of that is irrelevant, when I can clearly SEE with my eyes that they look girly - therefore they are (IMO, of course).

I don't think I've ever seen a bloke drive one of the new ones! But obviously that's just co-incidence...

TempestSabre

The irony is people who say its a girls car can't know much about driving.

TempestSabre

ned78 wrote:

...5 years servicing for 250 Euro, and the best residuals. I guarantee you you'll change your mind. ...

How does that servicing deal work out then?

afatbollix

they were on top gear... 220 bhp and up..... expensive but soooo worth it

junkyard

I know lots and lots about cars and driving and its still a girls car, a very good girls car but still a girls car. Every time I see one I expect to see some hot bird driving it and am majorly disappointed when its a bloke.:D

TempestSabre

junkyard wrote:

I know lots and lots about cars and driving and its still a girls car, a very good girls car but still a girls car. Every time I see one I expect to see some hot bird driving it and am majorly disappointed when its a bloke.:D

Why is it a girls car?

Larry David

TempestSabre wrote:

Why is it a girls car?

You're either blind, or you've never seen one...

afatbollix

junkyard wrote:

I know lots and lots about cars and driving and its still a girls car, a very good girls car but still a girls car. Every time I see one I expect to see some hot bird driving it and am majorly disappointed when its a bloke.:D

reminds me of the 2 women driving subarus around lucan... they arent the best looking but just in that car its like mmmmmm sexy....

TempestSabre

Larry David wrote:

You're either blind, or you've never seen one...

If you judge a car purely on looks, then I rest my case.

junkyard

TempestSabre wrote:

Why is it a girls car?

Ffs look at it man..... it was designed to be a girls car, it looks like a girls car it appeals to girls, it comes in girls colours etc., etc., its like asking why is a handbag for girls.... it just is! And if your happy driving one then good luck to you but its still a girls car... right!:D

TempestSabre

junkyard wrote:

Ffs look at it man..... it was designed to be a girls car, it looks like a girls car it appeals to girls, it comes in girls colours etc., etc., its like asking why is a handbag for girls.... it just is! And if your happy driving one then good luck to you but its still a girls car... right!:D

So a pink M3 is a girls car by that logic :rolleyes:

TomMc

The Cooper S & Works to be fair to them are drivers cars but the standard Cooper & Mini One (which represent the majority in Ireland) are most certainly girls cars. Thing is, most people would not know the difference between the various models ... so in the end ... The new Mini will always be perceived as a GIRLS CAR. (Lets face it most are driven by teeny boppers or fashion conscious (unimaginative) twenty & thirty somethings ... who are a little too girly for their age. Women, tend to drive Golfs ... Professional types the A3.

TempestSabre

TomMc wrote:

....Women, tend to drive Golfs ... Professional types the A3.

:rolleyes:

turbo

whats girlish about this??

optiplexgx270

And how many stock mini's look like the one in the pics? Thats an attempt (good one at that) to make a girly car look like a guys car and tbh it only makes the car looks like i lesbian.

turbo

optiplexgx270 wrote:

And how many stock mini's look like the one in the pics? Thats an attempt (good one at that) to make a girly car look like a guys car and tbh it only makes the car looks like i lesbian.

its an official MINI car

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=47&i=14632

optiplexgx270

£22,000 - oh dear god

TempestSabre

Some of you are more concerned about how a car looks, and how you look in it, then how the car drives. This is the motoring forum, you need to make your way over to the " Fashion & Appearance" forum

junkyard

TempestSabre wrote:

So a pink M3 is a girls car by that logic :rolleyes:

Yeah...would you drive a pink one?

junkyard

turbo wrote:

whats girlish about this??

Thats the "Xena warrior princess" version, still a girlie car by the way.;)

optiplexgx270

The fact this thread was created shows that the OP knows deep inside its a girls car and he is concerned about his own "Fashion & Appearance"

TempestSabre

junkyard wrote:

Yeah...would you drive a pink one?

I'd drive any dang thing.

junkyard

TempestSabre wrote:

I'd drive any dang thing.

I never knew you were in that league TempestSabre, would that be metallic pink by the way to go with your wardrobe.;)

turbo

junkyard wrote:

Thats the "Xena warrior princess" version, still a girlie car by the way.;)

what car do you drive??

optiplexgx270

if i recall its an M5 among other things...