Definition of a "Chick Car"?

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Definition of a "Chick Car"?



Hello all,

I recently sold my Jeep Wrangler for a Mazda MX-5. My uncle has sworn by the MX-5 for years now and I always enjoyed the handling around turns in the nimble little car. I enjoy them so much that I went out and bought one.

To my dismay, I now hear a ton of nay-sayers calling it a "Chick Car". :confused:

I don't really care what people think, and I merely need to find a curvy road to re-affirm that. :dblthumb2: However, I was hoping to shed some more light on the "Chick Car" issue as a whole.

What are your opinions on various cars and how girly or not they may be?
 
*shrug* i drove a scion tc for years and quite a few people told me how wrong of me it was to drive a chick car. haters gonna hate :D
 
To me a chick car is a sporty little car that you often find associated with teenage girls. So, to me that means little 2 door coupes or sports cars like the Miata, Focus, and Civic.

I'm not saying that these are girly cars, I like the the Miata and the Focus.
 
Chris's FX4 said:
To me a chick car is a sporty little car that you often find associated with teenage girls. So, to me that mean little 2 door couples or sports cars like the Miata, Focus, and Civic.

I'm not saying that these are girly cars, I like the the Miata and the Focus.
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I can definitely see why this would be the case, and I do agree that a small sporty car in general would fit a teenage girl well. Luckily though, the driving experience far outweighs that. :dblthumb2:
 
Yeah, because nothing defines a man's masculinity better than the car he drives. I wonder what kind of car Rock Hudson drove?
 
Chris's FX4 said:
To me a chick car is a sporty little car that you often find associated with teenage girls. So, to me that means little 2 door coupes or sports cars like the Miata, Focus, and Civic.

I'm not saying that these are girly cars, I like the the Miata and the Focus.
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Well there ya' go, that's the MX5. :laughing:

I had a customer one time that bought a Miata for their 16 year old daughter. Well I got the call to come pick it up because it needed to go in for service, even though they just got it for some reason it wasn't running. When I got there out walked this girl that was about 5'9" wearing white short shorts with long tan legs all the way to her ears and a smile ten feet wide. She was THE stereotypical girl for THAT car. Imagine pulling up next to her looking down in the seat?

I was like Ohhhhhhh this is gonna' be seriously bad for these guys. Then I pulled the dad aside (my daughter was about 13 at the time) and asked him how much he loved his little girl? He looked stunned and then I said because mine is about her age and I love her WAAAAAAAY too much to put her in a death trap like this! I looked at her with that big ol' smile and said to him "I bet you paid a lot of money for that smile she's wearing, and this car might be the last you'll see of it".

He smiled and went and got his wife. They talked for a minute then came over to me and asked what I would do if it was MY daughter? I told them I'd buy her an Accord or Civic first and if it had to be a Mazda get a 323. Then heck even a Mustang if she just HAD TO HAVE a sports car, but it'd have a V6 in it at best.

As to why I felt this way was because I had seen in all the bloody detail what happens to little girls in little cars in pretty much ANY accident, (owning a towing service for over 10 years at the time). There is no way I will ever put my baby girl in a car that doesn't have some sheet metal around her. Not to mention I know will be wrecked in less than 6 months. Adding to that, every wreck I'd seen with them they always end up UNDER the other car.

I had it loaded up on the rollback by then and the wife came back with another set of keys, (now I had both sets for the car and thought that was a bit weird). She looked at me, looked at her husband, then he said "tell them we will be coming in and swapping this one out for a bigger car. (They ended up with an Accord coupe btw, and mine ended up with an Accord 4Dr when she turned 16.)

Nuff' said......

Later,
Cardaddy
 
In my mind, when I think of a chick car, the MX-5 or a Pontiac Soltice would probably fall into that category. At the same time, both of those are used as low end race cars. So they aren't exactly wimpy cars. They are a million times better than a SMART car or something along those lines.

Couldn't agree more Cardaddy. When my son is old enough to drive, he'll be driving a solid car with less than 200HP and a five-star crash rating. Not to mention a GPS locator and a speed recorder. :-)
 
cardaddy said:
I had it loaded up on the rollback by then and the wife came back with another set of keys, (now I had both sets for the car and thought that was a bit weird). She looked at me, looked at her husband, then he said "tell them we will be coming in and swapping this one out for a bigger car. (They ended up with an Accord coupe btw, and mine ended up with an Accord 4Dr when she turned 16.)

Nuff' said......

Later,
Cardaddy
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My first vehicle at 13 was a '77 Ford Ranchero GT, thing was a tank! My second vehicle at 17 is my current F-150. Surprisingly my parents were more concerned with me driving the F-150.:laughing:
 
Lol here in socal the miata is considered to be worse than a chick car... lets just say two guys would be in the car lol

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Chick cars are pink or purple. Everything else is debatable.

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When I was in high school, the convertible VW rabbit was the ultimate chick car, especially in white. I think I read in one of the car mags that vw will be building a cabrio golf again. I may be wrong. But if not, fathers of high school and college girls, get ready to head to the VW group dealers.

Psynx "two guys in a miata" line? Classic.
 
VW Cabriolet, VW Eos, VW New Beetle Convertible ( I like how VW restyled the new Beetle BTW), BMW 3 Series Convertible and unfortunately the Miata seems to fall into this category. However, I really enjoy flinging a Miata through a curvy road.
 
99 Mercury cougar. Total chick 2 dr. My mother almost 70, still drives one.
 
Ultimate chick vehicle = VW Bug (New Beetle). Going from a Wrangler to a Miata is a big adjustment. Yeah, they are perceived as girly cars, but who cares, they're fun to drive.
 
Here's the thing, everyone calls the MX-5 a chick car. I have NEVER seen a "chick" driving one. It is always 40 or 50 year old guys. Sometimes I even see Guys in there 20's souping up older ones.
 
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