Is a Mazda MX5 a girls car?

[nuthin' fancy]

Originally Posted by mik

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That is as funny as this forum gets.

MX5 just a great, modern version of a traditional sports car.

[Nikked]

Originally Posted by K_Man

Such a shame about the stereotype on them, they are a little ripper of a car. I personally dont think they are specifically a girls car, come decent rims, lowered, decent exhaust and a roll bar and they look tough, as well as leave a lot of cars for dead around a mountain road. Shame most people only see the 'chick' part of it: bit underpowered, easy to drive.

Question should be, are you comfortable enough with your sexuality to own one?

Amazing isnt it?

May as well call the escort a girls car... next mustang...elan...all those other lightweight euro sports cars that have been copied all over the world...

[flappist]

Originally Posted by mik

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You really should be careful using promo publications mik.

As you seem to be in touch with these people why don't you look up which vehicle won the "Outrage" magazine most popular car as voted by the community several years in a row.

In case you can't find it, it was a V8, made in Australia and the first two letters of the model were XR......

How do I know? LS1 posted about it a LOT back then....

[Bossxr8]

If your criteria is based solely on image and looks then yes, it is a girls car. Although it does handle and drive well, but that's not really the point of the question is it?

[mik]

Originally Posted by nuthin' fancy

That is as funny as this forum gets.

MX5 just a great, modern version of a traditional sports car.

(flappist)
You really should be careful using promo publications mik.

As you seem to be in touch with these people why don't you look up which vehicle won the "Outrage" magazine most popular car as voted by the community several years in a row.

In case you can't find it, it was a V8, made in Australia and the first two letters of the model were XR......

How do I know? LS1 posted about it a LOT back then....



i couldn't resist

[Neale]

its funny how stereotypes work.

I think this is a girls car

[Nikked]

rusty kombie in the background!

[99AUXR]

Originally Posted by Neale

its funny how stereotypes work.

I think this is a girls car

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Mum does have a mustang. Whilst Dad has GT

[rag top]

Originally Posted by EVLKNEVL

These are not so girly:

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and here is one for sale:

http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/...eot=1&__N=1216 1246 1247 1252 1282 4294963013 4294934556&silo=1011

[cs123]

My wife had a 08 model. Great car, good performance but yeah felt like a chicks car and I almost never drove it

[uniacidz]

My mate has one, he loves it.

Someone however stabbed and cut the roof and had to replace.

$1100

May be a nice car, but remember, are parts readily available and how much.

[Crazy Dazz]

They are a GREAT little car, but yes.

[Shonky.]

Originally Posted by mik

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Best. Post. Ever.

[stevz]

Originally Posted by mik

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That just says it all, doesn't it?

[In Focus]

Originally Posted by mik

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No girls in the picture.

On topic, the answer is no unless the owner is a woman. Then again, my local hairdresser (a woman) drives a GT, so that must be a woman's car.

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by Nikked

rusty Absolutely awesome classic split-window rat rod kombie in the background!

Sorry, just fixed it for ya there...

[Madaya]

Mates, I have no hang ups. From what I've read, the MX-5 is a GOOD car. If the hat fits, wear it.
I drive the FG XR6 Ute because I need it at this time. I am currently persona non permanento addresso, I need to carry my stuff from point to point.
If I was settled in a house, I would be happy with a Focus - or maybe even a MX-5.
No machismo here. It's a motor car.

[pmacc]

Originally Posted by 2011G6E

At least with an Alfa you'd be seeing a lot more of the scenic countryside as you stood beside it where it had broken down...


Bazinga!!!

I agree the older models dont know what the word reliability means but the last model the 939

Originally Posted by Polyal

All good until you want to punt it a bit harder and then you realise why small sports cars should be RWD.

Unless you are thinking old school Spider.

the 939 above could be ordered AWD so you can go even harder into the corners

[99AUXR]

Originally Posted by In Focus

No girls in the picture.

On topic, the answer is no unless the owner is a woman. Then again, my local hairdresser (a woman) drives a GT, so that must be a woman's car.

Sure she a woman?

[landau460]

Originally Posted by tranquilized

Well as anyone who knows about cars knows, and as many have pointed out in this thread, the MX5 is a superbly balanced sports car in the true, traditional sense of the term.

Now there could be many reasons why one doesn't like them - you might not like the way they look, you might just not like Mazda's. That's fine, that's your opinion.

But to disregard one as a 'girls car' merely reveals an opinion based not on knowledge or facts, but ignorance. See Flappists post above for an excellent summation of why someone might come to such an opinion.

Regardless of all you have said it does not change the fact that it is a girls car!
The picture of the two Mazda above are not bad looking cars if any mx5's came like that here (haven't seen any so either they did not make it here like that or are only a limited number)

The question is not whether they handle or if they are a true sports car, or even if someone is ignorant or not, but if the Mazda mx5 is a girls car or not?
We, well I mean I live here in australia (can't speak for everyone) this is an australian forum so I can only assume that we are talking bout the australian version mx5. Those cars are very plain to look at and don't have much power either. The australian version would have to be aimed at the female market they have that feminine look. Heck they even loosely look like a wide bodied convertible 121 bubble car from the 90,s my ex loved the 121 and to give credit for a car that on a track I think would give the mx5 a run for its money for handling and power to weight!

[Buntz]

Shame that this car has the appeal towards women, and effeminate men.

Same thing happened to the VW Karmann Ghia, which I always thought as a cool sports car.

And I think the Mustang has a bit of that appeal too.

[XP6]

And to think my work mates use to call my old ST170 a hairdressers car... I tried to explain that a hair dresser would not buy the st because they probably would go for the half the cost base model focus... then Id take them for a white knuckle spin through the Pt Germain Gorge. Ps Id doubt the latest manly gt would keep up with the st through
there

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by phat_stak_tipa

Id like to own a turbo one with some handling mods, not much would get near you on the bends.

… except for every Lotus Elise and Exige ever built and most likely every GT40 replica as well.

They might be a well balanced and reasonably built car, however, I put them in the same category as the S2000 and Porsche Boxter.

A car that if you took a mate for a ride and everyone who sees you automatically thinks that you are a couple, just doesn’t float my boat.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by Full Noise

… except for every Lotus Elise and Exige ever built and most likely every GT40 replica as well.

They might be a well balanced and reasonably built car, however, I put them in the same category as the S2000 and Porsche Boxter.

A car that if you took a mate for a ride and everyone who sees you automatically thinks that you are a couple, just doesn’t float my boat.

dont drag a roadmap out on the bonnet when ya lost.....

[Full Noise]

Next time I’m make sure that some photographer isn’t following me around. Now that I think of it, I should have been paid for that pic.

[2011G6E]

Oh god...that 939 Alfa...

[Cabbage]

Yeah I reckon it is, apologies to anyone I have offended with this remark.

[Alan D Segal]

Originally Posted by pmacc

the 939 above could be ordered AWD so you can go even harder into the corners

With AWD and the biggest engine it weighs almost 1700kg and only puts out 190kw, so you won't be going anywhere that fast

[barra240t]

Sorta got the answers I was expecting. A few different types of people easily grouped.

1. People get what the MX5 is about, the drivers out there
2. People who are set on image because their mates might laugh at them, might be thought as a homosexual, a girl, not a man.

Amazing how something like a Mustang which is a RWD and does comes in a convertable is far more acceptable to the male sex.

I think this thread is done, Mods please close.

[GQ_Smooth]

Some amazing comments on the thread.

"A car that if you took a mate for a ride and everyone who sees you automatically thinks that you are a couple, just doesn’t float my boat."

I almost spat my coffee out when I read that. GOLD!