how many haha's?

[mustangtomiata]

Random question lol but does anyone ever get laughed at/made fun of for driving a miata? We all know that Miata drivers are either gay or women(though every woman Miata driver I've met and talked to could drive pretty good) I'm sure there are many funny stories related to this so lets hear them. The second day I had my car I pulled up next to a Cherokee with one guy and three girls and I was taking my friend for a ride and one girl looked over and started laughing at me...all I could do is bust out laughing. And I love it when truck drivers are all like, "mmmm...my big manly v8 staright pipe truck" yet our little Miata's will stilll beat them and then a corner comes up. Honestly Miata drivers buy Miata's because they want one to enjoy and it has nothing to do with image, showing a strong self esteem lol. Just thowin this idea out there.

[Roadster]

I used to take some crap for it. I have a lot of friends that are into muscle cars. They'd call it a fag/chick/etc. car. I'd usually respond with "I'm not trying to compensate for anything".

But most of those people had never driven one. My brother in law, for instance, a die hard Corvette fan and V8 fan, used to absolutely give me hell about it. Then I talked him into taking it for a drive. He's literally looking for a cheap NA now to keep from having to drive the Cummins to work every day.

I don't understand, though, why we get so much more crap than, say, guys that drive Civic hatches. Never figured that one out. :rolleyes:

[Doppelgänger]

Yeah... modding a car that was meant for grocery getting IS gay...

I've never really had any 'serious' comments.... sometimes my friends will **** with me and use the gay comments.

[Sawyer]

I've never had anyone say anything. But then again, I kinda fit the stereotype..

[thx712517]

I got one joke when I first bought the car, and nothing since then. I think the headlights and the car's general stance and "don't **** with me" attitude, plus the SCCA sticker in the rear window, definitely help.

[Oblio]

I had a complete stranger in a lifted pickup truck with a confederate flag sticker yell in a parking lot to me "get a real car". I just laughed.

[Doppelgänger]

I had a complete stranger in a lifted pickup truck with a confederate flag sticker yell in a parking lot to me "get a real car". I just laughed.


And quite the opposite for me, when i had my 99 all vinyled up all 787B style, i hactually had a LOT of people compliment the car...including some of those "lifted truck" crowd. But the best was little kids... it was a sure thing that if there were any kinds within 50fy they would point and yell "race car!! look!!" lol

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

I've had a few rednecks in trucks shout stuff, I normally shout back with vile English-English language and leave them speechless. Quite a few girls joke about the car but you know they all love it.

[MeFryRice]

People in lifted trucks always rub off to me as being an a-hole. I know that's bad but almost every "big truck" driver I've met has the mentality that they have the biggest d*** to walk this planet.

[roadster1]

It seems to never fail, the bigger the truck, the smaller the guy that is driving it. I always laugh when a big ole truck pulls in a little bitty dude "falls" out of it.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

I must admit, I find it fascinating how some people attribute the size of a car to their manliness levels.

[MeFryRice]

And it will always be that way to some people. I don't take any comments about my car personal. If they don't like it, I could give two ****s. I don't buy the car or a certain part to impress others.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Couldn't agree more, the same goes for when people mod their cars. I may not like it, but fair enough, it's your car and you can do what you want to it. Just don't go expecting others to appreciate the same way as you, and don't get a sore arse when someone tells you their opinion.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/GayOwnersofMX5/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=7

well damnnn

[MeFryRice]

Couldn't agree more, the same goes for when people mod their cars. I may not like it, but fair enough, it's your car and you can do what you want to it. Just don't go expecting others to appreciate the same way as you, and don't get a sore arse when someone tells you their opinion.


Exactly but I have to admit, I will laugh time to time when I see a mod that I feel should not be on that particular car but at the end of the day, it's his car, not mine. If it makes him happy, that's all that matters. I think people lose sight of this sometimes.

[mustangtomiata]

Yep...ricers, er I mean very...tastefully...modded cars, I'm one to talk lol I have a big ole stripe on my car! haha About truck guys outside of a fwe of my friends who drive them they usually laugh at me like im gay, but its different when I bought my car and there parents just handed them there big *** truck. And when they, as someone stated nicely, fall out of their trucks and stand at a stout 5'5" and the miata driver gets out and it 6 plus feet it really gets funny. People at my school give me a ton of crap about it and how gay it is, yet all of the same people drive something slower than my car. And they never seem to want to back their words up. The people I don't get crap from ironically all drive faster cars or a truck than me. Ah, human irony and hypocracy never fails to make me laugh.

[Doppelgänger]

^ When ew used to have fairly large gatherings up in Buford, i got a few laughs when i went from my RX-7 to the Miata... but after i too ka few people for some fun runs around a few back roads and took them for some drifting, they stopped laughing :)

[RotorNutFD3S]

And quite the opposite for me, when i had my 99 all vinyled up all 787B style, i hactually had a LOT of people compliment the car...including some of those "lifted truck" crowd. But the best was little kids... it was a sure thing that if there were any kids within 50fy they would point and yell "race car!! look!!" lol

lol I get kids pointing and yelling "Lightning McQueen!!!" all the time.

[Doppelgänger]

And quite the opposite for me, when i had my 99 all vinyled up all 787B style, i hactually had a LOT of people compliment the car...including some of those "lifted truck" crowd. But the best was little kids... it was a sure thing that if there were any kids within 50fy they would point and yell "race car!! look!!" lol

lol I get kids pointing and yelling "Lightning McQueen!!!" all the time.


We need to vinyl your car up like that now....

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

How much do large quantities of vinyl cost? How about for just a hood?

[Doppelgänger]

Not too much for the most part, but it all depends on the quality/mil/type of vinyl.

[GraffitiPanda]

i had 3 drunk rednecks going off one night... yelling fag, Queer, etc.

longs story short i ran them off the road listened to the rear wheel snap off on the POS 92 corolla... and watch the cop that heard the whole thing write them all tickets and haul 2 to jail for drinking and driving...

hate me or not... i laughed all the way home!

[RotorNutFD3S]

lol

And no, there will be no Lightning graphics going on my car. lol

[GraffitiPanda]

And quite the opposite for me, when i had my 99 all vinyled up all 787B style, i hactually had a LOT of people compliment the car...including some of those "lifted truck" crowd. But the best was little kids... it was a sure thing that if there were any kids within 50fy they would point and yell "race car!! look!!" lol

lol I get kids pointing and yelling "Lightning McQueen!!!" all the time.


We need to vinyl your car up like that now....



OH yeah... BTW MIKE



heres ur old car in the mazda mag. (The C.C.R. was a dead give away)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/annik5k/magmike.jpg

[Doppelgänger]

And quite the opposite for me, when i had my 99 all vinyled up all 787B style, i hactually had a LOT of people compliment the car...including some of those "lifted truck" crowd. But the best was little kids... it was a sure thing that if there were any kids within 50fy they would point and yell "race car!! look!!" lol

lol I get kids pointing and yelling "Lightning McQueen!!!" all the time.


We need to vinyl your car up like that now....



OH yeah... BTW MIKE



heres ur old car in the mazda mag. (The C.C.R. was a dead give away)

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a19/annik5k/magmike.jpg

Thats awesome:cool:
You better bring that out to the next Sonic meet! I had no clue that the event was covered. What year/issue/month was that?

[Doppelgänger]

NM, we found it and ordered a copy buahahahaha

[GraffitiPanda]

enjoy

[Doppelgänger]

O trust me, i will. And sorry for not believing you when you told me.... i guess i couldn't fathom that they would put my car in there :(

[Sawyer]

That's pretty neat!!

[JennB]

It's funny to me because we were so different than the rest of the crowd there.... and look what car makes the magazine. Miatas at Myrtle Beach is a nice event but it's an older, tamer crowd. We did things on our own most of the time we were there. And, that event was a year and a half ago and we're just now seeing this. lol

[MeFryRice]

I remember seeing this article a while back but I don't remember what magazine it was. I want to say it was in a Mazda Sport or something to that effect.

[Doppelgänger]

Yeah, we found the issue..... and will be framing the article when it gets here :)

[JennB]

Oh really? j/k

We need to frame a lot of things. I have tons of pics of all of our past and present cars and we have all that wall space in the pool table room. We're just really lazy.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

That's a genius idea! I should start printing my pictures off and putting them around my room.

[Doppelgänger]

Wolf Camera has great quality large prints... a tad expensive... but worth it.

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Definitely. I'm quite excited now.

[Doppelgänger]

And if you want to do any photo-editing, someone at Wolf can work your pic a little before printing to make it look better.

[leadfoot_mf]

Yeah... modding a car that was meant for grocery getting IS gay...

I've never really had any 'serious' comments.... sometimes my friends will **** with me and use the gay comments.

that is cause you are gay and using jenn to hide that fact. lol

[Doppelgänger]

...says the corvette owner.....

[leadfoot_mf]

...says the corvette owner.....

:lol:

[Doppelgänger]

you know it!

[jesseealexander]

all i can say pertaining to this topic comes in the form of a warning.

do NOT drive a stock-ish miata down the strip on spring break in panama city. lol.

[RotorNutFD3S]

Why not? My g/f had no problem doing just that in hers...

[MeFryRice]

Why not? My g/f had no problem doing just that in hers...


The keyword in your sentence is she's a girl....

[RotorNutFD3S]

I drove it down the strip too... No problems. lol

[Roadster]

I'm sure it was fine for you, but our resident Jonas Brother probably got mobbed by manic tweens. :P

[HaveSand]

I've never been made fun of, but I get lot's of compliments (nice car!), though usually from kids or high school girls. Still makes me smile!

[simontibbett]

I love people who make fun of it, it makes it fun. Honestly lol.

I could care less what others think, the car is a great platform for a road race/track car and that's all that matters to me personally. And it's a blast to drive.

[jesseealexander]

I'm sure it was fine for you, but our resident Jonas Brother probably got mobbed by manic tweens. :P



lol ask matt about it... :wtf:

[Doppelgänger]

I took my white NA down there... had a couple of drunk inbreeds make comments.. but that's typical. But my NA didn't look very stock at all :lol:

[MoD_Scotty]

I've only had the car for a couple weeks, and I've already gotten a bunch of compliments. I got a couple weird looks from my friends when I told them I was getting a Miata, but that's mostly because I'm 6' and 260lbs. I haven't gotten any negative comments yet, probably because most people don't want to start **** with somebody that looks like this:

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/avatargsr/hollowmass/Scotty-1.gif

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

Hows the car do you for space with the top up? And what kind of bass is that? And welcome!

[MoD_Scotty]

I've been keeping the top up all the time actually...it's not bad at all. I probably have about 1.5-2" of headroom.

The bass is an ESP LTD D-4, tuned BF#BE ("drop-b"). Here's a couple better pics:

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/avatargsr/basses/0706081632a.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i95/avatargsr/basses/0706081629.jpg

[jesseealexander]

^^ thats sick. i play guitar. tried bass for a while and loved it, but never had the money to buy one.


but back to my trip to PC, matt and i went down there and no joke, every 5 minutes someone would scream out "CUTE CAR FAG!" or something to that effect. i think it was the 2 guys in a miata part... lol

[Jack-MX5ATLanta.com]

How come such a stigma exists around the Miata? I always viewed them as "Bonus" cars for stock traders in London.

[Doppelgänger]

It's an uneducated irgorant American thing.