Female/Male Cars
 

Lately, when discussing cars, I hear people mumble something like, "Can't get that, it's a female car." I think associating gender with a car is ridiculous. Assocating color is fine...but the car.

I've heard it the most with the Jetta.

Comments?

Per a comment made on the Sopranos a season or two ago, the "Porsche with Panties".....the Boxster.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/pmpre/im...i/MVC-004S.JPG

Time for the folks in Stutgartt to add some more ponies to these things.

VW Bug - Female car
Volvo-station wagons - Female cars

Dodge Ram 1500 - Man's Car
Ferrari Enzo - Man's Car

I could never drive a VW Bug

Anyone who bases their car-buying decision on the perceived target gender of the car is a moron. Period.

If it's a good car and does what you want it to do and you can afford it, then buy the damn thing.

i generally think small compact, standard Civics, Neons, Lancars, jetta are chick cars. Does that mean i wouldn't buy one if the price was right? hells no, well maybe if it was pink.

You can't go wrong with a truck if you are a guy, unless it was that Aztec in that other thread.

New VW bug... FEMALE CAR. However the old convertables are great for beach-bums of either sex.....

The Mazda Miata was and is very popular with women. I've read this, and the few people I've know who owned one were women, _and_ most of the Miatas I've seen on the road are driven by women. But that wouldn't stop me from buying one if I actually liked it.

A lot of the cars I'm seeing listed here as women's cars -- Volvos, Jettas, Civics, Neons -- are actually college student cars. I live in a college town, and there are hordes of these things around. What they are, mostly, is small and inexpensive and not very powerful (excepting the Volvo). So if you associate your manhood with large size and big horsepower, you might consider them girlie cars. But then I would question your judgement about what makes a man, a man.

Thanks for the input, guys. I wasn't worried about it personally, it just really bothers me hearing people say it.

H1 = Total guys car. H2 = chick car

Just one example, but there are several cars you can pull up behind and know there is a woman driving it. Then they start driving and you know for sure :D

Disagree. I think it looks very feminine, and to be honest..kinda ugly.

I do agree, the Enzo is one ugly-ass car. Fast as hell, but as ugly

Actually, theres a Volvo station wagon around campus that looks bad as hell. It's a orange-gold T5 with a really subtle, factory equipped aero package. Beautiful car.

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If anyone calls the Shelby Mustang Gt500 A womans car your totally wrong.

True dat.

However, modern mustangs, second gen dsm's, and v6 camaro's are all chicks cars.

Amen.

and on an unassociated note, if I see one more V6 mustang with a GT-R emblem from a skyline im gonna kill. I dont mind mixing and matching parts between cars, thats an old hotrodders thing really, but I hate mixing emblems.

2003 impala ls??????????? chick or dude you decide.

I'm willing to bet that at least 90% of Enzo owners are men. Just think about it..... How many women would pay over $600,000 for a car? Not many. Just think of all the shoes and make-up they can buy with that amount of cash. :lol:

I don't think modern Mustanges are girl cars. Hmph.

90% of cavaliers, sunfires, and saturns are definately chick cars.

Dude, my girlfriend drive my firebird all the time... She is currently trying to get her Reginal SCCA Lic (with the car). Just goes to show - women love HP.

YEs the new ones are....but drop a big block in a Camaro its no longer a chick car:lol:

Chick cars are for the girls that would rather look "cute" than drive something practicle.

Typically the only cars I look at as girl cars are the Beetl, the Cabrio, and the H2 (soccer moms only). Civics and Jettas can go either way.

Just a side note - in highschool, my gym teacher had a red beetle. We all made fun of him for having such a feminine care (he's about 6'8 - huge scarey football player-type gym teacher). Well, to make it worse, the next year he got a rust colored Cabrio. Tell me he wasn't hiding something.

Oftentimes, manufacturers don't go out of their way to design a car for one sex. Why would they cut out half of the market? But, sometimes groups perceive a car as "theirs". Look at Subarus. Subaru does advertise in gay mags and they have used Martina Navatrilova as a spokesperson. Many lesbians like Subarus because they are perceived as being a little aggresive and outdoorsy without being ecologically insensitive suv's. Of course, look how many guys like myself have bought the WRX.

I think that if you're making this decision you've got bigger problems than car envy--i.e. penis envy. Just get a good car that's safe and doesn't pollute too much and you're a big man in my book anyday.

What about Mini Van's?

i wouldn't put minivans into teh chick car category. They are becoming more and more popular with the dads that deal with kids a lot. I See minivans as a parent's car....not a chick car. Especially since they almost all have 200hp these days, 240 on the honda. Very few chick, or moms, know how to use that much power.

LOL

I knew one that could handle that power.


But when I rebuild my Van(full-size). I hope to grab about 350 or maybe 400 HP out of my 350.

Any year Mitsubishi Eclipse, Total Girls car

I know a slew of guys who drive the Mitsu Spyder Eclipse. I don't see anything about this car distinctly feminine.

I'm going to have to disagree with you on that one, Remy.

at my school, pretty much only sorority girls drove eclipses, ya know, with those mardi gras beads on the rear view mirror and fuzzy steering wheel cover things. 2003 impala??? it's pretty neutral i think, but i've only seen guys driving it so far.

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Obviously the new bugs, but i've also heard MR2s being described as feminine.
As for volvo station wagons...
I had an '85 classic blue one, and it was completely awesome, not a chick's car at all, unless you're using it to haul around your kids to a soccer game or something....then the EverClear song "Volvo Driving Soccer Mom" comes to mind.

The common association here is Grand Am's are driven by girls. Usually bitchy girls...


And one of our male friends... but he's rather bitchy himself.

NO the Jetta is not a woman car..

I don't drive one but a guy at work has a older one and hes got it lower a little and it looks so sweet.

How about an 80 Malibu wagon in black primer, 12pt cage, single racing bucket, and no exhaust?

I have a damn Jetta, I am a guy. My thoughts? I get all the ladies looking at me when I drive through college towns *AND* I can talk cars with them.

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Yeah baby.

if you want to put gender

Ill challenge ANYONE on civics and trucks...those are the ONLY cars ANYONE drives out here and guess what, a LOT of females drive the trucks.

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