Which are the 'girly' convertibles?

[Hughesie]

Ian_UK1 said:

SLK - in the mind of this in-duh-vidual!

The SLK 55 AMG ?

[aeropilot]

ChilliWhizz said:

aeropilot said:

Dempsey1971 said:

Following on from the Convertibles thread, there are several posts talking about 'girly' convertibles.
Which are these then?

All of them especially TVR's.....

Corrected that for you

Thank you

[so called]

aeropilot said:

ChilliWhizz said:

aeropilot said:

Dempsey1971 said:

Following on from the Convertibles thread, there are several posts talking about 'girly' convertibles.
Which are these then?

All of them especially TVR's.....

Corrected that for you

Thank you

[anonymous-user]

otolith said:

There aren't many decent convertible driver's cars which derived from front drive four seaters, so that might be a starting point.

If "not being a drivers car" is your criteria for manliness then you've just designated the drivers of about 80% of the cars on the road as un-manly

Anyway, there is nothing as un-manly as insecurity and pettyness in my book, a man who loves his bright pink Micra CC and enjoys it without giving a rats ass what anyone else thinks is a much bigger man than Mr. Insecure in his tedious white box sneering at him.

[lufbramatt]

Last night I pulled up next to a brand new Porsche Boxster S, bright red with black wheels, looked really nice. Was being driven by a lady but I wouldn't have any issues driving it.

[otolith]

dme123 said:

otolith said:

There aren't many decent convertible driver's cars which derived from front drive four seaters, so that might be a starting point.

If "not being a drivers car" is your criteria for manliness then you've just designated the drivers of about 80% of the cars on the road as un-manly

Anyway, there is nothing as un-manly as insecurity and pettyness in my book, a man who loves his bright pink Micra CC and enjoys it without giving a rats ass what anyone else thinks is a much bigger man than Mr. Insecure in his tedious white box sneering at him.

That really comes down to why one thinks that some cars are "girly" - I don't really subscribe to that view, but it appears to be that the distinction is between cars bought for posing and cars bought for driving.

[anonymous-user]

otolith said:

dme123 said:

otolith said:

There aren't many decent convertible driver's cars which derived from front drive four seaters, so that might be a starting point.

If "not being a drivers car" is your criteria for manliness then you've just designated the drivers of about 80% of the cars on the road as un-manly

Anyway, there is nothing as un-manly as insecurity and pettyness in my book, a man who loves his bright pink Micra CC and enjoys it without giving a rats ass what anyone else thinks is a much bigger man than Mr. Insecure in his tedious white box sneering at him.

That really comes down to why one thinks that some cars are "girly" - I don't really subscribe to that view, but it appears to be that the distinction is between cars bought for posing and cars bought for driving.

It also leads to a much wider discussion about the definition of gender, the relationship between gender and sex and the way patriarchy affects most every aspect of our daily lives.

I imagine that discussion would pass right over the heads of the people giving people in convertibles the coffee beans though

[Rh14n]

Yawn... Here we go again with sexism on PH. Anything deemed feminine automatically ridiculed and denigrated. Some (thankfully in the minority) of you really need to grow up and join the 21st century.

[Mr. Potato Head]

If you buy a convertible the stereo will only play Jimmy Somerville. I plugged an ipod into mine with 126g of music on it and now all it does is play a 16 month long remix of Don't Leave Me This Way.

[MDMetal]

I can get that people don't see Micra's as "manly" not sure that automatically makes them "girly" though.

What's wrong with the larger engined SLK's? the 350 or 55 for examples?

Surely what people are really asking what convertibles fall into the bracket of performance car? M4 convertible? Anyone gonna argue that one?

[DrDoofenshmirtz]

Rh14n said:

Yawn... Here we go again with sexism on PH. Anything deemed feminine automatically ridiculed and denigrated. Some (thankfully in the minority) of you really need to grow up and join the 21st century.

Well, quite.
Why, even now I am writing this wearing nothing but a thong, butthugging cutoff jeans, socks and sandals.
[insert image of the overweight bearded chap in butthugging shorts here]

Seriously, there are some things that are 'just wrong' no matter how unjust you may think...
Men... dancing, Socks and sandals, wearing a thong on the beach, mesh vests... and we only really want to see nice girls driving convertibles, not bald middle aged men with beer bellies.

[aeropilot]

MDMetal said:

Surely what people are really asking what convertibles fall into the bracket of performance car? M4 convertible? Anyone gonna argue that one?

Yes.

Have you seen the weight different between a coupe and a vert....? (and that's before even mentioning chassis flex)

Any ///M convertible, is an oxymoron if regarding 'performance'.

[csd19]

Mr. Potato Head said:

If you buy a convertible the stereo will only play Jimmy Somerville. I plugged an ipod into mine with 126g of music on it and now all it does is play a 16 month long remix of Don't Leave Me This Way.

I think the bigger issue is you having Jimmy Somerville on your ipod in the first place...

[MDMetal]

aeropilot said:

Yes.

Have you seen the weight different between a coupe and a vert....? (and that's before even mentioning chassis flex)

Any ///M convertible, is an oxymoron if regarding 'performance'.

0-60 in 4.6 seconds, is that less manly than my coupe 350z which is down in the measly 5.7 sec? I think not.

It's sounding suspiciously like powerfully built fat bald directors are taking offense to anyone who might enjoy the wind in their hair or the sun on their slender bodies.

[SirSquidalot]

The 206 CC

Always driven by birds!

[aeropilot]

MDMetal said:

aeropilot said:

Yes.

Have you seen the weight different between a coupe and a vert....? (and that's before even mentioning chassis flex)

Any ///M convertible, is an oxymoron if regarding 'performance'.

0-60 in 4.6 seconds, is that less manly than my coupe 350z which is down in the measly 5.7 sec? I think not.

I however, grew out of playing Top Trumps before I left school, so if the meaningless 0-60 times are your only measuring criteria for a 'performance' car......then by all means, crack on

[Monty Python]

SirSquidalot said:

The 206 CC

Always driven by birds!

Is this what the whoosh-parrot drives?

[TVRJAS]

Ian_UK1 said:

SLK - in the mind of this in-duh-vidual!

I do understand where your mind is going with this...

I posted on the other thread a picture of my Sister in-laws SLK 230 and my Brothers attitude to it,but when I returned to the UK two years ago I was in need of a car.

They/She were seriously thinking of changing it as it's a 2001 car so we started discussing that did I want it. I had read previously that it is considered to be a "Girly" car and with it being a two owner car (Both Females) I guess these facts were backing it up.

Everything works as it should low mileage for it's age and took it for a spin and was pleasantly surprised,the folding roof is a work of art compared to my Chimaera's and we came to a good family offered price of £3,200 (Two years ago). So the only thing really stopping me buying a very reliable and well looked after car at a good price would be what others think.

So my attitude of being I don't care what others think I said "yeah ok" if you want a hassle free sale I'll have it. After doing a quick insurance quote and going over the car in more depth she then decided she didn't want to sell it as she likes it to much.

It's sitting on my drive as I write this and two years later I look at it and think it's a well built nice looking car and if she hadn't decided to back out then I'm sure I would of had two years of inexpensive motoring and so what if someone thinks why you driving a girls car,I liked it then and just 20 mins ago looked at it and thought it's a nice car.

After this all came to nothing I started looking at cars again and another car discussed here was a Volvo C70 T5 I went to look at (Sounds like there's no hope for me) which I really liked (I was aged 48 then) but being a previous TVR owner on two occasions my search then hit TVR classifieds and that was the end of the Volvo as I purchased the Chim

Moral of that story is that I don't care what others think and neither should others,but I still understand where your mind is

Edited by TVRJAS on Tuesday 30th June 15:06

[militantmandy]

All of them

[andrewparker]

Audi A3