Twink Cars?

I'm thinking this is a BIT of a reach. The New York Times did a story on "gay" cars. Of course, as I'm reading it, it's dawning on me that gay has nothing to do with it. It's a metrosexual thing. Period. End of story.

Believe me, living in the Shenandoah Valley, I KNOW there are plenty of style-impaired gays. Redneck queers? We got 'em, baby. And I'm thinking they're driving pickups and picking the soup out of their beards rather than hopping into cute Mini Coopers. So this is a STYLE thing, not a sexual-orientation thing, I dink.The first few paragraphs of the New York Times article (everything in bold is part of the Times story):

Ron Geren, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. But for a recent date with a woman, he rented a Cadillac Escalade because he was so used to friends saying his Miata is “gay.”

“Guys say, ‘Hey, that’s cute,’ ” Mr. Geren, 40, said, adding that the comments come from gay as well as straight men. “You have to fend off that perception.”

A few years ago, Meghan Daum, an op-ed contributor to The Los Angeles Times, wrote about a promising first date with a man that never led to a second one because, she later learned, the guy saw that she drove a Subaru Outback station wagon and concluded she must be a lesbian.
And when Joe LaMuraglia, the founder of gaywheels.com an informational site modeled on the likes of autoweb.com, told his partner he wanted to buy a Mini Cooper convertible, the boyfriend joked that he would not be seen in it because the couple “would look like such a gay cliché,” Mr. LaMuraglia said.

Cars are no more straight or gay than cellphones, office chairs or weed whackers. But in recent years that truism has not stopped a perception among some motorists that certain cars can, in the right context, be statements about a driver’s sexual orientation.

People actually appear to believe this. But, as the writer noted at the end of the story ...

On Gaywheels.com, one indicator of actual gay buying trends is the list of vehicles most frequently researched. As of last October, the Toyota Yaris, a $12,000 economy car, led that list, followed by the Toyota Camry, which was the No. 3-selling car in America last year.

The Mini Cooper. Gay? Well, it IS too cute to be straight, but ... no.