I'm a girl and want a giant, honking, enormous truck. It was what I learned to drive in (with my best FEMALE friend).

That's silly. A car is a car. I commend a man for having his own to begin with -- it usually means you're stable enough to afford one. Stability is good. :)

i drive a 94 ford ranger. no one believes me when i tell them it's my vehicle :[
but if it gets you to point a to b....who cares! those comments are probably coming from kids who's parents bought then their "manly" car.

Agreed.  I might make jokes like that if it was a beetle or something like that. But other then that, most cars look the same to me.  My brother refers to his car as a girl,  but he doesn't call it a girly car.  Let joke about your car then ask them how much it costs to fill up their truck with gas.  See what kind of responses you get.

all i'm gonna say is that jeep is badass, no matter what gender. in fact, i couldn't choose one for mine if i tried (to refer to it as). i dunno, just strikes me as more of a ... vehicle.

love my babyjeep

Some people put a lot of value in their "image," particularly with what kind of car they drive.  I say it's all fleeting and not worth the $ to invest in something that will only loss value over time.  I drive a '94 Honda Civic with a dent in one side that I have no intention of fixing since everything still works fine.  A car is a car is car.  From Point A to Point B is all I care about.

Not going to lie, I refer to my car as a boy. I don't know why I do it, but I do. It comes naturally.

having A car is better than having NO car at all. 

Responses you might try
"Hey it may be a small car, but it's got *insert random impressive info about what's under the hood, like engine, liters of who knows what* and gets some serious gas mileage, allowing me to take my date out at a finer restaurant than your gas guzzler could"

Or you could be funny about it
"After I go down gravel roads, all I gotta do is spit on it and it's clean!  You've gotta use up all the ocean to clean your road hog"

"it's such a small car, the police don't even see me speed by!"

"It's better than a van" (I'm thinking of the soccer mom stereotype I'll soon get once we upgrade one of our cars to be able to ship all the kids around at once)

That's an interesting question, and one foreign to the English language.  However, there's something to be said for Romance languages who assign a gender to every noun--for example, in French one drives "la voiture," a feminine noun; but in Mexico, one drives "el carro," which is masculine.  However, in Spanish, "truck" is "la cameoneta," which is a feminine noun.

Also, I don't understand the leap from your penultimate paragraph to the final one.  If you acknowledge the existence of girl cars (i.e. "pink" or "having stuffed animals"), why do you attack others' manhood if your only disagreement with them is criteria?  Is there something fundamental about the criteria that calls masculinity into question?  I just don't understand and would appreciate some clarification.

The picture, though, really makes your point.

In New Mexican spanish, a car is "el caro", and a truck is "la trocha". I lost my truck over a year ago (economy), and my mom gave me her old red Cavalier. At first I thought of it as a girl's car. Now, who cares....? 

Lol.

Yeah, and they probably complain about gas prices, too. Anything's expensive when you have a monster truck to fill up. And seriously, how often do they actually haul anything (last time I checked that was the point of a truck)? So you have practically no passenger room, horrible manoeverability, and even worse gas mileage, all because you need to prove you're a man.

BTW, my 96 Cavalier has a boy's name.