What do hairdressers actually drive?

[Shakermaker]

When I was growing up we had a girl come to the house to cut our hair, she had a Vitara...

My current hairdresser has a Peugeot 307. The Wife's current hairdresser (also mobile) has a Scirrocco.

[900T-R]

Top Gear magazine had a report about this in its early days ca. '95 - according to them, it was wall-to-wall sports bikes, classics, Defenders and TVRs...

[xRIEx]

I don't know about the individual hairdressers, but the owner of the shop I go to (she does work there too) has a Range Rover of some description.

LaurasOtherHalf said:

patch5674 said:

SWoll said:

Wife's hairdresser drives a brand new RR Sport if that helps at all?

In that case, she is not a hairdresser, she is a trophy wife who happens to trim hair on the side.

What makes you say that

I've just seen this post and I'm also confused at the reasoning. Certainly in the case of the shop I mentioned, she is certainly not "trimming hair on the side", she works there full time (AFAIK), owns and runs the shop.

Edited by xRIEx on Friday 29th July 09:05

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So it is official: 991 Turbo, C63, FFRR - hair dressers cars. Who'd have thought?

[culpz]

They don't, they cut hair...

Why does this even matter?

[james_gt3rs]

Seems there's more money in hairdressing than I realised...

[xRIEx]

james_gt3rs said:

Seems there's more money in hairdressing than I realised...

There's potentially a 'lot of money' in most (possibly all) occupations if you're running the business rather than simply working for the business.

[Shakermaker]

james_gt3rs said:

Seems there's more money in hairdressing than I realised...

yes, there is, if you own the salon you can do pretty well out of it from what I have seen. Clearly you have to be quite good at what you are doing as well.



But that's the same with everything in life.

[CABC]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

My thread has finally arrived......

Some very clichéd PH cars as it happens including an MX5, MR2 Spyder, Z4 and MINI.

I've tried to offset these with (over various years) an M3csl, Porsche 993 RS rep, 911 3.0, Megane R26.R, Exige amongst many (many) others and in my defence the MINI was a GP and the Z4 an M Coupe.

For the interest of the thread, my staff have had various cars but I'd say the MINI is most popular

Currently using a new style Civic Type-R.

i thought you were a "stylist"?

[Vaud]

james_gt3rs said:

Seems there's more money in hairdressing than I realised...

If you are very good at what you do (especially dyes) and have a loyal client base then you can do very nicely.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

CABC said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

My thread has finally arrived......

Some very clichéd PH cars as it happens including an MX5, MR2 Spyder, Z4 and MINI.

I've tried to offset these with (over various years) an M3csl, Porsche 993 RS rep, 911 3.0, Megane R26.R, Exige amongst many (many) others and in my defence the MINI was a GP and the Z4 an M Coupe.

For the interest of the thread, my staff have had various cars but I'd say the MINI is most popular

Currently using a new style Civic Type-R.

i thought you were a "stylist"?

Do I take that as a compliment or an insult?

[CABC]

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Do I take that as a compliment or an insult?

i was thinking of the Cleese/Corbett/Barker accountant sketch

[clarki]

Mine drives a white SLK - she's got taste

[LaurasOtherHalf]

CABC said:

LaurasOtherHalf said:

Do I take that as a compliment or an insult?

i was thinking of the Cleese/Corbett/Barker accountant sketch

Well in that case you can call me a managing director my good man

[Burnham]

My brother has had, not in chronological order:

Merc SLK
Audi TT Roadster
Ford XR3 Convertible
BMW E46 Convertible
Rover 21X Convertible (I seem to remember)

I definitely sense a theme.

[MJ85]

Previous hairdresser (male) drove a Z4. Current hairdresser (female) drives a Focus ST.

[ZX10R NIN]

My barber drives a CL63 & the OH hairdresser drives a V10 M6 which is about to be replaced by a GT-R which is going to Litchfield for a stage 1 tune.

[patch5674]

FN2TypeR said:

patch5674 said:

SWoll said:

Wife's hairdresser drives a brand new RR Sport if that helps at all?

In that case, she is not a hairdresser, she is a trophy wife who happens to trim hair on the side.

You would be surprised as the business can be very lucrative in some circles dependant on the clients that are being served. She may own an established business, the woman who owns the place I use is loaded by all accounts and spends much of her time in London doing hair for modelling shoots for example.

Yeah fair enough, I think my comment seemed semi funny at the time I was typing it my bad.

I agree, as you say, being an employer and not an employee means that you can make much money if you're smart and willing to put the graft it.

But generally speaking you would not expect a run of the mill hairdresser to have a brand new RRS.

[Beati Dogu]

Mr barber has a Honda Fireblade.

Says the white line markers blur into one continuous line when he's flying along. I wouldn't know.

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I think this thread goes to prove there is no default car. They appear to be as random as everyone else.

ps

My two barbers drove a Fiat Coupe Turbo and a classic Mercedes.