NYT says Miata "gay by design"?

On 2007-04-20, Leon van Dommelen > wrote:
> Grant Edwards > wrote:
>
>>Almost all of them had various "trim packages" and then a bunch
>>of negative-value extra "dealer options" on top of that
>>(fiberglass wings and other crap, crome filler lids,
>
> Chrome filler lids are positive-value items. )

Judging by the difficulty of finding a Miata w/o one, most
people must think so. I had to pay extra to have a regular
filler door painted to match. When they installed the regular
filler lid, the dimwits in the dealer's service department
decided they didn't need to install the 4 screws that attach
the bottom of the filler "bay" to the collar on the fill tube.
When I complained about it, they maintained that those four
screws weren't needed. I disagreed (since the filler tube was
obviously loose and rattling around), and told them I wanted
the scews put in. When I picked the car up, they had put in two
of the four. I stopped at the hardware store on the way home
and bought two more and finished the job myself.

Not going back there again...

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at "GREAT HEAD-ON TRAIN
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by mistake!!!

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:14:18 -0700, my_two_cent wrote:

> See
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/fa...=1&oref=slogin
> for the whole story, but the gist of it is that some cars are seen as
> "gay" and the Miata is one of them. Other gay cars are the Volkswagen
> Beetle, Mini Cooper, and Subaru Outback. Does it make sense to you to
> say that a Subaru is a "Lesbaru" or that a Miata is "gay" and an
> Escalade is "manly"?


Do manly men buy Escalades, or just men desperate to seem manly?