[Closed] Is the Mini Cooper a girls car? So what is a blokes car?

I know three people with Cooper S's
Two are female, one is male.
The latter has the JCW version, the former are both the supercharged rather than turbo versions. All are driven enthusiastically.

perhaps you can list all the cars marketed just for women and then we can see whether your smugness is supported by facts
Even you did not try so we know the answer. Dont let this weakness or you accepting it make you rethink your opinion its ever so manly and virile...swoons

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but you don't need to specifically say something is marketed for women or men for it to be a product obviously aimed at women or men.

Take these yoghurts, for example:
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They are in no way female-specific, but which gender do you reckon the marketing is aimed at?

Homosexuals?

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Sold it a few months later due to all the ribbing he got.... nice car though!

Heh...what a loser.

I think most would appreciate a honda jazz or a nissan micra as an old persons car. I don't recall ever seeing advertising for either of these models so it can't be that but I still associate them with that demographic. I guess it must be because most of the one I see are driven by old people....or very young people that care more about getting mobile without breaking the bank paying for insurance than driving a 'cool' car. Using the same logic why can't a mini cooper not be seen as a girls car because a high proportion of them on the road are driven by ladies?

I think the mini cooper (and the audi tt too) fall into the category of girls car partly because their aesthetics is quite a large factor in their overall appeal and was high on the priority list of the designers and appreciating aesthetic design is seen by knuckle draggers as a trait of girls, fags and Guardian reading ponces. Also because both cars seem to be relatively high on the most wanted list for females drivers 'into' cars. They are both coincidentally on the short list for the next car in Convert Towers. We only need one car and I want something a bit sprited and Mrs C wants something smallish and 'pretty' (she likes the look of our chavmobile Clio 197 so her tastes might be a little warped). I would be more than happy to be seen driving either. Certainly a load happier behind the wheel of a cooper s or TT than I would an octavia or similar 'family man' car.

Mini Cooper ads are so effeminate that it makes me ovulate just watching them:

But what does it matter? Seems like the marketing dept are onto you lot: 'This car doesn't care what you call it' ...

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This is a man's car.

Any bloke who thinks there's such a thing as a man's car ain't a man.

Well maybe one of these, but I'll bet Russian girls drive them...

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This is a man's car.

.......parked by a woman. A man would have reversed it in. 😉

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.......parked by a woman. A man would have reversed it in.

Careful. Derek'll scratch your eyes out with talk like that.

cinnamon_girl - Member
Homosexuals?

Lol, hey wait a minute 👿

Well I've booked a test drive of a JCW so there.

Maybe people at work won't hit on me.

Anybody want to buy my old 5 series? Now that is a driver's car...

Blokes car.
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PP was very, very close on the previous page.

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Proper Minis are awesome. My mother's first car was a tweaked S. Jealous.

Proper Minis are awesome. My mother's first car was a tweaked S. Jealous.

Yes in theory but have you been in one in the last 30years? It was quite underwhelming. Very good at being small I grant you and maybe the one I was in had a shagged engine but pretty much everything about it appeared a bit bobbins in comparison to what we drive today. You'd have to have pretty rose tinted glasses to think it was 'good' after driving cars of the last decade plus. Modern mini is clearly a betterer car in every way apart from being, well, mini.

Didn't the new beetle come with a dashboard vase? Surely to appeal to a certain gender?

Good thread for the bewildered unenlightened ignorant.

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This is a blind man's car.

QFT.

As ever, Google wins:

Want to understand the male psyche, its anxieties and inadequacies? Just look at the cars disproportionately driven by men: The car with the most skewed ratio of male to female drivers is none other than the Lamborghini. A staggering 93% of the owners of that Italian luxury sports car are men. [b]The car with the highest rate of ownership among women, meanwhile, is the fuel-efficient Mini[/b], according to a survey of nearly 10 million car registrations conducted for Marke****ch by Edmunds.com.

So it is statistically a womans car. Personally, I would not want to speculate on why it appeals more to women than any other car. I expect that someone in BMW's marketing team would be able to tell you.

Dirty girl car. And by the look on it, about to pass out.

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Frankenstein - Member

Didn't like the road noise. Think it had 18" wheels though.

I believe they had run-flats fitted, as standard, due to the lack of space for a spare wheel. This affects the ride, apparently.

So my sister reckons, anyway. 😀

Didn't the new beetle come with a dashboard vase? Surely to appeal to a certain gender?

edd china out on his sofa among manly minis

Your faith in the non-discriminatory nature of marketing is admirable, yet naive

Yeah, how are you getting on with those examples of where the mini is specifically designed for female use and what marketing have you evidence of that is aimed squarely at the female driver.

Having trouble finding it I imagine. I have even tried to help you out by looking through Mini adverts and if anything they are aimed towards a male audience. So must be all those features that the mini has which are made to appeal to women, what were they again?

So must be all those features that the mini has which are made to appeal to women, what were they again?

And yet as RichPenny above points out it is the car with the largest female proportion of drivers of all current models. Weird isn't it. What's your theory?

Lol my man loves those yogurts! Should I be worried?!

depends does he have a mans car or womans?

A V8 Ford Mustang is a mans car but women are extra sexy when they drive one (see the latest Rolling Stones video for example which i would link here if I knew how).

Flashie's in love with his Mum.

Drives a remapped Cooper SD so..... ❓

Real girl's car.

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Ah, my dad had one of those...the big girly.

Had an 04 Cooper. Great car on my back road route into work - handled brilliantly. Couldn't drive it on a backroad without grinning.

Test drove the Cooper and Cooper S back to back and settled on the Cooper with standard wheels but Cooper S suspension. On the roads I was driving the ride and handling made more difference than the engine.

That said I went into the dealership with my wife to buy it and it was hilarious watching the salesman trying to work out who he was selling the car to.

Man's car? Woman's car? Who cares. Find a backroad and drive one. You will grin.

Those citroens with the vibrating seats, are they for women? Mstomhoward has just got one, not sure why...

parked by a woman. A man would have reversed it in

Brilliant @perchy

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Frankenstein - Member
Didn't like the road noise. Think it had 18" wheels though.

I believe they had run-flats fitted, as standard, due to the lack of space for a spare wheel. This affects the ride, apparently.

So my sister reckons, anyway.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Buy yourself the cooper, when anybody says it's a womans car, challenge them to a race, when you win.. laugh, tell them they were right about it being a womans car and that said womans car just pissed all over them.

Done

Definitive proof that a Mini Cooper is a real man's car:
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Junkyard - lazarus

perhaps you can list all the cars marketed just for women and then we can see whether your smugness is supported by facts
Even you did not try so we know the answer.

Actually I've been at work. 😆
I deemed it more important than arguing with strangers as to whether or not a car that was conceived to capture a greater percentage of the female customer base, and achieved it, was a "girl's car".

Don't let this weakness or you accepting it make you rethink your opinion it's ever so manly and virile...swoons

My last car (for I do not currently drive) was a bright red Nissan Micra covered in flower stickers. That's how concerned I am with my masculinity.

I used to drive it to my job in automotive manufacturing. 😳

Night night.

German cars vs French cars, gnarpoons vs ebikes, pies vs veg, [s]Scarface vs Manon Des Sources[/s] GOTG2 vs Dune, my sausage vs your sausage - STW always delivers 'handbags at dawn'.

(Pictures a small office full of mini-me-Clarksons in a noisy bag-fight, punctuated only by regular outbursts/demands for snapshots of each other's wives)

According to a the school run the VW T5/T6 is the fastest growing girls car.

Mans car is anything dirty and over 10 years old.

There is no such thing as a car a girl can't drive. Therefore all cars are girls cars.

Maybe those who think there's such a thing as a man's car should stop confusing their joystick for a gear lever.

It's a bit like equating your Nintendo Ninja status with your manliness.

I used to have a Ford Puma, one acquaintance of mine [s]reckoned[/s] trolled me saying it was a girl's car, to which I [s]replied he ought to have a chat with EVO Magazine and Tiff Needel, whose spirited driving in one had the rest of the TG team making noises like a bunch of girls! Big girl's blouses, more like...[/s] bit hugely

Basically it's just a wind up isn't it. You choose whether to bite or not. Further reading (sorry for more facts!) suggests that BMW choose quite narrow marketing for their products. Seems entirely possible that they've targeteted their marketing and tweaked the product to suit.

According to a the school run the VW T5/T6 is the fastest growing girls car.

Oh good, at least that signals that this 'austerity' thing is now over. (Scans pages of commercial property available in Redditch)

Anyone up for setting up a Converse shoe-shop for surfey-bikey-mums? 😉