Silliest comments/questions about your MINI

[Electric Sheep]

In the local VW dealership today, the salesdweeb was asking me a load of questions about my MINI to help ascertain its value. It was all going quite well until:

"How many doors has it got?"

I momentarily wondered whether I'd stepped into a time machine and gone forward to a period where there were five door MINIs or whether there had been five door ones since day one but there was a world-wide conspiracy amongst owners not to buy the five door model, but surely anyone with half a brain - least of all someone who works in the car industry - realises that MINIs only come in three door variants.

Whilst I was tempted to answer "Sixteen", I replied that there were only three.

Oh dear.

Any others to share?

[laura f]

"is yours the cream one?" asked at a local mini dealership

I walked away, prefering not to shout "it's pepper white you moron and oddly enough i won't be coming back here in a hurry"

[British SD]

I could run over and crush your toy car in my truck. To which I replyed, "and what makes you think you could ever catch up to me?"

[aussiesupermini]

Quote: Originally Posted by British SD

I could run over and crush your toy car in my truck. To which I replyed, "and what makes you think you could ever catch up to me?"

Now thats a classic comeback.

I have often heard " it looks like a toy car" and i reply i know u really want one.

One of my favourite pastimes is sitting in a local cafe and parking out front and watching people gawk. Most older people say i had one of those when i was young, like they have been building them like this for years but they alldrool all over my baby, so don't smart arze them. My mini stands out a little and don't want to be keyed or anything.

Some people don't have their brains connected to their mouths in my book with the stupid comments. Funny how they all own SUV's (Seriously Ugly Vehicles).Don't they know that jealoussy is a curse .

Cheers

Ann

[dietcokeplease]

It's amazing how many sales people are order takers. They have absolutely zero interest in the product they are selling and zero interest in cars in general. These people exist in the job purely to pay their mortgages and subsist in their own sphere.

I've bought quite a few cars in the past 15 years or so for my family and extended family. Even when the car is parked right outside the salesmans desk on the other side of the plate glass window you still get banal questions:

"Does it have alloy wheels?"

"Dude, the car is parked under your nose and you can't even see the alloys on it?!"

The best example of idiocy was a Honda salesman when I negotiated a Jazz for my sister. She had a BMW 330i to part ex. After appraising it the salesman said to me that he'd have to adjust the his figures to allow for replacement of all 4 tyres. I went out to check the tyres - 4 fairly new (couple of thousand miles at most) Goodyear Eagle F1's.

When I came back in I asked him why. "Because they're budget tyres and don't have normal tread" he replied. In the end he admitted that he thought they were a budget design as they had no tread blocks and he also thought that they were worn because of no cross tread blocks like a normal tyre.

[Hyper Active]

I was recently issued with a parking ticket , which I appealled against and won . On the part of the ticket on which the traffic warden puts what the make of the car is, it said

Make of vehicle : UNKNOWN .

Perhaps they were new to the job is all i can say.

[aussiesupermini]

Quote: Originally Posted by Hyper Active

I was recently issued with a parking ticket , which I appealled against and won . On the part of the ticket on which the traffic warden puts what the make of the car is, it said

Make of vehicle : UNKNOWN .

Perhaps they were new to the job is all i can say.

Or maybe they wouldn't know class if it bit them on the arze.

[Lorri]

Quote: Originally Posted by dietcokeplease

It's amazing how many sales people are order takers. They have absolutely zero interest in the product they are selling and zero interest in cars in general. These people exist in the job purely to pay their mortgages and subsist in their own sphere.

Mr H always complains how little the majority of sales people know about the product they're selling. He often asks questions that he already knows the answer to, and they haven't got a clue!

[ZapoMCS]

Got a smart comment from someone at work that the Mini was a small clowns car, to which I replied, so that would make your's a big clowns car. I think he drives a camry. the nerve.

[St00ge]

what about, "it's not a real mini." wtf? what, cos it's not made by work-shy communists like British Leyland or Rover?

[PPE]

Quote: Originally Posted by etalj

what about, "it's not a real mini." wtf? what, cos it's not made by work-shy communists like British Leyland or Rover?

To that I would reply, "yes I know, it actually works"

[St00ge]

Quote: Originally Posted by richardolsen

To that I would reply, "yes I know, it actually works"

haha, yeh exactly

[Billy Smart]

When i first got the mini (new)...folk used to say 'is it new'....... ..dher...

[Iamamini]

.....said "that is not a car, it is a toy". And I said "Yes, I have lots of fun every day". That shut him up good .

[ayde_bury]

I had a forecourt attendant try to stop me putting diesel in my OneD, and hitting the cut off button, insisting that he knew that there wasn't a diesel Mini across the tannoy.

It wasn't until he was dragged from the kiosk and pointed to the big sticker by the filler cap saying DIESEL that he wandered back to his little hut very red faced.