94-99, Boy or girl? Options

[zfjohnson07]

Is our 6gc or maybe celicas in general a boy or girl car, i think of it as a man car, but everyone seems to think it is a dinky girl car... wth

[Murgatroy]

The Celica was marketed toward Women from `86 onward. The Alltrac/GT4 wasn't marketed much, but what marketing there was for it was aimed at men, particularly race fans.

However, the 6th Gen, lacking a USDM GT4 variant was marketed toward women.

As for assigning gender toward a car, it has a lot to do with the car's perceived personality. Both of my Celicas are Female; Chaos and Mudhoney. However, my `67 New Yorker is male; Socrates. The difference here is the stately presence he exudes. While both Chaos and Mudhoney are chomping at the bit and raring to tear up the next corner, Socrates commands respect from his mere presence. It is in my mind that both Chaos and Mudhoney are young girls thriving on the next experience that life has to offer, while Socrates has been there, seen it, and written the 'How To' manual on it.

This is just my opinion on the matter.

Here for a difference is my wife's.

She has owned two cars in her life. Both Buick Regals. Her first car, she named Dolly, because the car had a big long nose, similar to a renowned singers ample bosoms. This car was inherently female. However, her second Regal, she named Parton, in homage of her first car, which was named after the singer. This car however, is male.

Again, I think it is all in the perspective of the owner and the personality they assign to the car.

Without this assigned personality, a car is just a car, and as such an asexual mechanical mode of transport.

Being a 'Car Guy,' I can not accept that. My car is an extension of myself, and as such will have a personality unique to what I perceive of the car.

[OOBE]

The Celica was marketed toward Women from `86 onward. The Alltrac/GT4 wasn't marketed much, but what marketing there was for it was aimed at men, particularly race fans.

However, the 6th Gen, lacking a USDM GT4 variant was marketed toward women.

As for assigning gender toward a car, it has a lot to do with the car's perceived personality. Both of my Celicas are Female; Chaos and Mudhoney. However, my `67 New Yorker is male; Socrates. The difference here is the stately presence he exudes. While both Chaos and Mudhoney are chomping at the bit and raring to tear up the next corner, Socrates commands respect from his mere presence. It is in my mind that both Chaos and Mudhoney are young girls thriving on the next experience that life has to offer, while Socrates has been there, seen it, and written the 'How To' manual on it.

This is just my opinion on the matter.

Here for a difference is my wife's.

She has owned two cars in her life. Both Buick Regals. Her first car, she named Dolly, because the car had a big long nose, similar to a renowned singers ample bosoms. This car was inherently female. However, her second Regal, she named Parton, in homage of her first car, which was named after the singer. This car however, is male.

Again, I think it is all in the perspective of the owner and the personality they assign to the car.

Without this assigned personality, a car is just a car, and as such an asexual mechanical mode of transport.

Being a 'Car Guy,' I can not accept that. My car is an extension of myself, and as such will have a personality unique to what I perceive of the car.

Holy crap, dude...where you've been?

[Murgatroy]

Holy crap, dude...where you've been?

Eh, I only lurk here from time to time. I am on nearly all the Celica sites, I just spend more time on some than others. I am still around though.

[OOBE]

Holy crap, dude...where you've been?

Eh, I only lurk here from time to time. I am on nearly all the Celica sites, I just spend more time on some than others. I am still around though.

I don't hang out on CT 'cause I feel so out of place there, but I'll probably start going there after I finish my swap. All my peeps from celica.net are there.

[Murgatroy]

I don't hang out on CT 'cause I feel so out of place there, but I'll probably start going there after I finish my swap. All my peeps from celica.net are there.

The fragmentation that befell the community after the fall of Celica.net is what hurt us the most. Everyone has a new home now. Most of use went to the other site, giving us a the highest concentration. It is a different place now than it was, and it is home.

There are very very few of us that have been in the community as long as the OGs, so to speak. Remembering Celica.net in it's heyday as well as the fall.

The hardest part is all of the separate communities that came afterwards, all focused on the same car. That is what makes it hard for folks like me to frequent them all, thus leaving us, like you and me, to go to different sites to find home.

The nature of the car though, that is what endears it to us and perpetuates the community, bringing in new blood to replace those that take an exit to a new horizon.

Myself, my Celica; Chaos in particular, is a car that sparked an emotion in me that can not be repeated. Giving me a sense of loyalty to the name, as well as the particular car. Putting other 'projects' to pasture and leading me, even in my mature age to pursue what many consider to be a 'girl's car' or a 'Boy Racer.'

It is this emotion that we all feel, thus giving a personality to a machine, and by doing so, giving them a life of their own.

So now that I have taken this thread completely off topic, I will state this, regardless of the public opinion, or the marketing ploy meant to portray the Celica as a 'Girl's Car,' I respectfully disagree and instead offer the term 'Enthusiast's Car.'

Be the intended owner male or female.