Polo=Girls car? :roll:

MadManMike · Post by **MadManMike** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:45 am

A silver New Beetle.

That's a womans car.

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:54 pm

MadManMike wrote:A silver New Beetle.

That's a womans car.

not if its the RSI version

-Ben-

Daveo · Post by **Daveo** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:34 pm

no car is sexist. lol ...its for whoever innit, unless companyâ€™s made the PoloGirl or the PoloMan hahah or Mercedes-LadiesClass or Mercedes-MensClass....So cars are classed for anyone to me.

helios1 · Post by **helios1** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:50 pm

MadManMike wrote:A silver New Beetle.

That's a womans car.

lol

My parents own one of those, 2.0 115hp. Ive driven it a few times, i think its pretty good! lots of grip, reasonable power (well, fastest car ive driven so far, 17 see).

But, and its a big but! The car has a small vase to keep a flower in on the dash next to the wheel. Sexism? I cant see a 'manly' thing on it, apart from the slightly wider-that-average wheels.
So yes - deffo a womans car!

JTLondon · Post by **JTLondon** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:22 pm

MadManMike wrote:A silver New Beetle.

That's a womans car.

Nah.... try a lime green New Beetle

lmao
Topped off with daisy rims LMAO

helios1 wrote:But, and its a big but! The car has a small vase to keep a flower in on the dash next to the wheel. Sexism? I cant see a 'manly' thing on it, apart from the slightly wider-that-average wheels.
So yes - deffo a womans car!

Maybe you could be a bunch of cuban cigars in the vase

A11XLG · Post by **A11XLG** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:05 pm

my run a round is a new beetle and it's blue........i would have to say it's girl the fact it comes with a flower doesn't help

polopowah · Post by **polopowah** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:06 pm

A11XLG wrote:my run a round is a new beetle and it's blue........i would have to say it's girl the fact it comes with a flower doesn't help

a beetle as a run-around

whats happened to the polo?
-Ben-

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:30 pm

ModifiedMadness wrote:
A11XLG wrote:
Giorgio wrote:I'm a bloke I work hard and have just picked up my 2001 Polo GTi, so I wouldn't say we can only afford the early models.

I'm a slackass, probably explains why I drive an A-reg Mk2

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:28 pm

Even an RSI version (tooooo many jokes can go along with that acronym, anyway) is still a girls car. Just one for a sporty girl.

I don't think i've ever seen a bloke driving one...

at least the original bug was kind of unisex, had a few harder lines and a less cutesy stance (designed by porsche and hitler after all

) and could either be girlied up or made into a real agressive street rod. But the 'new beetle' (golf with a rubbish shell on the chassis) even looks like a pansy in manufacturer-dressed track touring racer form.

MadManMike · Post by **MadManMike** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:36 pm

Look what i've started now lol...

I suppose you could get a black one, black out the windows and use the vase to store drugs you are about to off-load to a 13 year old chav?

Nope, it's still an upside down mushroom.

dino · Post by **dino** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:46 pm

I dont see how you can be stereotyped from what you drive or stereotype a car to a certain gender...

MadManMike · Post by **MadManMike** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:49 pm

Come on man, it has a vase full of flowers on the dash

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:52 pm

Well, maybe it IS wrong to generalise about someone just from the car they drive.... but then again its not as if you're given a car at random by the DVLA and locked into it's ownership. Both the new and particularly the used motor markets display a mind bogglingly vast array of styles.

Excepting cars being borrowed within or passed on through families (my own is a hotbed of this), there is a degree of choice involved on behalf of the driver. Without a certain limit on what you are or are not prepared to drive, or what features and style you want in your car, you could end up with any old sh*te, and i'm sure that's not actually the case for most people. For my brother it is true - his car is one my neighbour came into when a lifelong friend of his passed away, and had to get rid of somehow. Too bad it's an image-free, faded-red, 80s style astra, and that his will didn't mention that the fuel lines were shot.. Still, bro dont care. It was a super cheap motor, and it gets him back and forth. To judge him from it you'd say he's someone's grandad or great uncle, which certainly aint true, he just doesnt express himself through his car.

For me, partially so, partially not. If I was completely without regard for all that, I would have started my self-owned driving career in a 900cc Nova or Corsa almost for sure - no cheaper way of going about it! But their safety was suspect, and I didn't fancy the wideboy/estate-scum connotations. Sooner a skoda estate than that (quick, roomy yet compact, economical, and hell-ass quirky!), which is possibly why i ended up plumping for the polo

(and pure practicality, with the ashtray)

Even on top of all that, I doubt even my bro wouldn't have some twinge of a second thought at owning - rather than, say, borrowing - a New Bug. It is so, so a girly car, far more than even a Ka is (or a StreetKa.. just), and even if just because of the massive waste of potential interior room with all the dysfunctional retro plastic and body panelling all over the place, he'd go off and have a quick gander through the autotrader in case someone saw him out in it.

An image-free, boring old banger is one thing... something a bit newer, that you must have dropped a four or five figure sum on, explicitly designed with what - for you - may well be a negative image is an entirely different matter.