Posted on 04/09/2007 6:53:58 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
I was listening to the Laura Ingraham radio show today and they were talking about how some cars are girly cars and some are manly cars. Laura was particularly mentioning that the Mazda Miata was a girly car. This was news to me. Her assisitant chimed in with saying the Mazda 3 was a girly car. This was also news to me. I'm in the market for a new car and was thinking of buying the MAzda 3 or a Miata. I've been told that the 3 has fewer service issues than other Mazda cars.
Of course one would gather that the manly cars would be trucks.
One girly car I've noticed is the VW Beetle. I've never seen a man driving one of those.
What do Freepers think? What cars are girly cars and what cars are manly cars.
It was made for the crowd that didn’t need the power or high prices of other muscle cars during that era.
No. They are fine. Just a lesbian car, that’s all.
Fix the cigarette lighter.
Don't agree that all SUV's are but the Lexus RX300 (or 330) is the most girly SUV you will ever see.
Hey, I’ve got a Prius, and I’m no liberal. I have 82K on it since 11/04, and I have saved lots of gas money at 49 mpg. I admit that some people think I am liberal, but I clear that up pretty quickly in conversation.
What's with the edselesque grill? It looks out of place.
Hey! I drove one of those for a year after my car got totaled because some jerk pulled a U-turn in front of me. Really wasn’t a bad car, the bum living in it wanted $400, but took $300 and I got a year out of it with no repairs, the AC even worked (sorta/kinda).
Gave it to my insurance agent’s fresh off the raft from Cuba brother.
Me: “Now this car has the following problems...”, him: “Si, si no problema...”, her: “He was a mechanic in Cuba, worked on 60 year old American cars, he can fix it.”
Sure enough, 3 years later he’s still driving it, got it all fixed up and painted, happy as a clam.
>>The perfect sentence for a man is “big ass food truck”.<<
LOL!
Too true!
I liked buying it because I we already had a truck, but I needed something to haul the kids around in - something that had a good reliability record, and a good safety record. The low price and the really good gas mileag was a plus.
Been pretty happy with my Saturn - I’m up over 100,000 miles and it’s still chuggin along.
My problem is that I had to repossess a 65 convertible and decided to restore it for Nortette.
Right after paint she lets me know that after ten years of Explorers she is afraid to drive a little car.
So here I am explaining a Sunshine yellow 65 Mustang convertible...
Anyone want to trade for a 56 Chevy or a 41 Ford?
PS: Any SUV driven in the city is decidedly a girly thing.
I don't know about the newer Miatas but the top on my 2000 model has to be taken down by hand. It really isn't hard to take it down or put it up though...the only time I have wished for an electric top is when I was driving on the interstate and it started to rain!
I've started to question ANY new Harley/Harley rider.
There's something fundamentally wrong about a dentist pretending to be all Outlaw while discussing investments with a real estate broker and drinking Coronas .
That, and, around here at least, they dress their wives funny. "Soccer Moms in Leather" might make a profitable video for distribution over TV but it's a very weird fashion statement.
Either that or an HP2 Megamoto. :^)
Maybe you were blinking at the time. : c )
Mini Motors has the English Bulldog as their logo.
When you consider the squat stance of these little muscle bound rockets, it fits.
I loved my first car, a '70 Olds Cutlass.
350 4 bbl. Lots of smoke shows ....
Driving this Mini at 90 mph, you can tromp the pedal and feel it clawing through triple digits in a couple seconds.
Superchargers have no lag time like a turbo.
I thought it was a ‘54.
One of my first cars was a ‘56 ‘Plymouth w/ a ‘54 Dodge hemi.
IIRC it was 270 cu in. Not as big as the Chrysler hemi.
“Get yourself a Pontiac Solstice. No worry about being called a sissy.”
How is a Miata ‘girly’ but a Solstice that has no more power and 700 extra pounds ‘manly’? Is it manly to go slowly and turn poorly? Hehe.
Actually, my dad’s car was a Meadowbrook, which was a bit less exalted than the Coronet. 103 HP, for a large 5 member family. We have way too many hp nowadays, let’s stop sending so much money to the #$^&*@ Saudis.
The Dodge Coronet was introduced with the division’s first postwar body styles. Lower trim lines were the Wayfarer and Meadowbrook. The only engine for Dodge was a 230 cubic inch flat-head straight six cylinder engine with a single barrel Stromberg carburetor, producing 103 horsepower (gross).
For 1953, the Coronet gained an optional 241 in³ Red Ram Hemi Engine and set over 100 land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Dodge Royal line was added above the Coronet in 1954. The stock Dodge Coronet was a smooth running car, and the six-cyclinder engine could power the car to 90+ miles per hour. A limited production model was a four-door, eight passenger limousine, an extended version of the stock Dodge Coronet. One of the most notable features of the first-generation Coronet was a three-speed, fluid-driven transmission that was operated by a foot pedal on the floor. It required no shifter.
Miatas are nice but except for the Maszdaspeed turbo one, they are girly cars.
That’s why the car I drive has 48 valves, DOHC and 12 cylinders. For some reason, it doesn’t get great mileage (around 18MPG).
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