:rolleyes: LOL ~ LOL, yes there are those : )

I think the general consensus is too old school so to speak, yeah most guys think girls like small cute cars...but to me that's simply not the case any more....To me now-a-days girls are getting more and more into the great hobby of cars...

There customizing them for car shows, and even racing down the quarter mile and many are doing the work themselves....so I think the misconception maybe a general and perhaps to broad a statement now-a-days...perhaps this is predomintently happening by me as I live in a big city and I see many girls into the car scene now

Just my 2 cents...

Joe

Space, you are a BAAAAAAAAD Alien. LOL

Guys and gals can have the same car, but describe it differently.

Guys: I drive a killer 2006 Monte Carlo SS. You know its got that 5.3 and the butter soft leather. Whooty whoot!!

Gals: I drive a blue car. Im team Edward!

I think it's more an issue of some cars are plagued by stigmas given by the masses.

Such as the Mini-Cooper example earlier. I know a guy who is not a alternate lifestyle guy (that I know of), and he drives the Cooper S, put new rims one size larged on it with performance tires. It's a manual transmission and he drives it like a mad man. I've also seen guys bring the Mini Coopers to autocross meets (and they do very well with them).

You look at the remade VW Beetle and it normally screams girl car (it's compact design, bubbled look and the fact that most GUYS who like VW Bugs, like the motor in the original location).

But then there was the Hummer. I watched a show/documentary that talked about the Hummer and stated how the H3 was designed with specific concepts to strategically target a woman shopper. It's not that guys don't like the vehicle BUT they recognized a lot of guys had to "sell it" to their wives. So what's that say about the Hummer? It's not a "chick car" because of it's changed designs to appeal to women?

I feel this is true in a broader spectrum.

(Case in point) The general public. Anything over 5 years old is old, and slow, and needs to put out of it's misery.

I think the majority of guys see an old or older car as one with possibilities. Or one they owned one when younger. So it holds a special place in their lives.

Woman (and this is a broad statement) gererally do not care. As long as it get's them from point A to B they're happy. Sure there are excteptions to the rule. And this can be true with guys as well. There are some guys who feel a car is aluminum, rubber, and plastic and that's all.

You could say a lot or most of us on here feel our car (spelled: Monte Carlo) is an extention of ourselves. Maybe even our soul. We connect with the car. We know it's likes and dislikes. What makes it run better.

Guy's car:
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f.../DSCF0298s.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f.../DSCF0270s.jpg
Gal's car:
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f.../DSCF0068s.jpg
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/f.../DSCF0050s.jpg
OBVIOUSLY this fit's ALL the rules discussed above!

What?! The guy who sold me my Solstice told me it was a man car....He even said the color was called Macho Pink.

other than that, you said it right.:rolleyes:

Girls cars- Small, good mileage, pretty much always stock besides air fresheners and terribly ugly seat/steering wheel covers. (there are exceptions lol)
http://www.auto123.com/ArtImages/740...and-Am-001.jpg
http://www.chuckreynoldscarco.com/pi...lero%20001.jpg
http://rjmarq.org/cougar/images/cougar.jpg