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Mini Cooper-A womens car????

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    #62
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,660 ✭✭✭maidhc


    turbo wrote:
    whats girlish about this??

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    i saw one of those in Ballincollig a few months ago. The spoiler looks hideous.

    And the MINI is still a girls car in my book.


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    #63
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    There has to better motoring subjects than this...


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    #64
    Soby
    Registered Users Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    just lookin at da new mini in da top gear mag..looks quality...lol dey call it da new new mini...does look bigger though and has a black roof...but i mean you saw how savage they were in the "Italian Job" didnt ya's...feck it ill decide in 2 years time i suppose


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    #65
    turbo
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭turbo


    maidhc wrote:
    i saw one of those in Ballincollig a few months ago. The spoiler looks hideous.

    And the MINI is still a girls car in my book.

    HORSES FOR COURSES


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    #66
    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,660 ✭✭✭maidhc


    turbo wrote:
    HORSES FOR COURSES

    Yep. Just giving my opinion.


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    #67
    Larry David
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭Larry David


    TempestSabre wrote:
    If you judge a car purely on looks, then I rest my case. ;)
    Eh, read the topic title. He's asking if it's a girl's car, and I do think it LOOKS girly. I don't recall the OP asking if it "handles" girly, or if it "accelerates" girly - he was asking if it looks girly - and yes, it LOOKS like a girly car, hence I'm judging it soley on the way it looks, purely in the context of this topic. Dumbass.


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    #68
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I thought the "S" after Mini Cooper stood for Supercharger. now it's turbo charged........


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    #69
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    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
    I like them. A lot of lads like big cars, probably because they miss tractors, but I like small and fast.


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    #70
    turbo
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭turbo


    colm_mcm wrote:
    I thought the "S" after Mini Cooper stood for Supercharger. now it's turbo charged........

    it never stood for supercharged


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    #71
    Larry David
    Closed Accounts Posts: 205 ✭✭Larry David


    biko wrote:
    I like them. A lot of lads like big cars, probably because they miss tractors, but I like small and fast.
    That tractor reference is only relevant to boggers, mate. And a Mini isn't "fast" - it's "nippy".


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    #72
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    turbo wrote:
    it never stood for supercharged

    oh. what is it then? Sport probably


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    #73
    _Kaiser_
    Registered Users Posts: 28,861 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Some people are taking this debate WAY too seriously! :rolleyes:

    (but yes, it's a girl's car... as is the Micra, Peugeot 206, and disappointingly the mid-90s Civics it seems).


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    #74
    turbo
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭turbo


    Larry David wrote:
    That tractor reference is only relevant to boggers, mate. And a Mini isn't "fast" - it's "nippy".

    whats your definition of fast?? Whats a fast car to you??


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    #75
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    Fast to me is 0-60 under 4 seconds and a top speed of 200 mph or over. As already said a Mini is only nippy, not fast.


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    #76
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    junkyard wrote:
    Fast to me is 0-60 under 4 seconds and a top speed of 200 mph or over. As already said a Mini is only nippy, not fast.

    What cars would you say are very fast then?


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    #77
    melekalikimaka
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭melekalikimaka


    its a girls car, i can't believe this has gone on so long...if i saw more than two minis at a junction with blokes in them i'd think it was mardi gras


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    #78
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    TempestSabre wrote:
    What cars would you say are very fast then?

    You mean you don't know?? Pagani Zonda, Mercedes SLR.....


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    #79
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    junkyard wrote:
    You mean you don't know?? Pagani Zonda, Mercedes SLR.....

    In terms of times, speed.


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    #80
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    TempestSabre wrote:
    In terms of times, speed.

    Google may be your best friend...try them. I'm not an anorak when it comes to facts and figures, if I like something, I buy it, simple as that. I don't get excited by facts and figures, if I did I'd be plane spotting or even worse, train spotting. I don't mean to offend and I'm not being a smart @rse, its just the way I see it.:)


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    #81
    turbo
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭turbo


    a car doesnt have to be a supercar to be considered fast


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    #82
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    junkyard wrote:
    Google may be your best friend...try them. I'm not an anorak when it comes to facts and figures, if I like something, I buy it, simple as that. I don't get excited by facts and figures, if I did I'd be plane spotting or even worse, train spotting. I don't mean to offend and I'm not being a smart @rse, its just the way I see it.:)

    I thought you had a cut off or something

    "0-60 under 4 seconds and a top speed of 200 mph or over"

    That would leave out a few so called supercars I'd imagine. Never mind run of the mill :eek: Ferrari's, Porsches etc.


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    #83
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,454 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    turbo wrote:
    a car doesnt have to be a supercar to be considered fast

    especially if the person who considers it fast hasn't been in a supercar.


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    #84
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    colm_mcm wrote:
    especially if the person who considers it fast hasn't been in a supercar.
    Its all relative really...some cars look fast and aren't and others look discreet and are rockets to go. Personally I prefer the latter, that and the fact the Gardai don't know what it is is a big plus for me.:)


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    #85
    Aidok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭Aidok


    bit late on this topic but no way r they a womens car, hav any of u ever seen a modded cooper s, thats the last car i would b expecting a women to drive!


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    #86
    topher182
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭topher182


    minis are a great motor!! if ur a girl and lookin for a motor go for an mx5!!


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    #87
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    Every thing is relative. But I dunno who you can say a something that does 150mph and 0-60 in 6 secs isn't fast, relative to the context of most cars.

    ...Sorry officer but really I was just being nippy at 120mph, its not really all that fast. :)... Come on jump in and I'll show you fast....:D


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    #88
    TempestSabre
    Registered Users Posts: 4,142 ✭✭✭TempestSabre


    Aidok wrote:
    bit late on this topic but no way r they a womens car, hav any of u ever seen a modded cooper s, thats the last car i would b expecting a women to drive!

    The world has moved on since the 70's. I passed two different Enzo's with women driving them over at Goodwood one year. Anyone remember Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on Top Gear driving her NSX? Etc, etc.


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    #89
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    TempestSabre wrote:
    The world has moved on since the 70's. I passed two different Enzo's with women driving them over at Goodwood one year. Anyone remember Tara Palmer-Tomkinson on Top Gear driving her NSX? Etc, etc.

    But these are women driving mens cars...thats a different ball game altogether. The only men that think its O.K. to drive a mini are chavs.... no wat i mean.:D


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    #90
    optiplexgx270
    Registered Users Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭optiplexgx270


    Women in mens cars :D reminds me of the 2 blondes i saw in an Enzo in Cannes this year - So HOT!

    But then put it the other way round, guys drivings girly cars - :(


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    #91
    junkyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,579 ✭✭✭junkyard


    I remember seeing the most amazing blonde driving a Ferrari 360 at the start of the Mille Miglia in Italy last year and she could drive it and I'd say she owned the car too.:eek: :eek: :eek:


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