15 Sep 08
Perhaps the most cutting insult in the petrolhead lexicon is: 'It's a hairdresser's car.'
It may say something about the lank-haired trainspottery nature of many petrolheads that they feel being finely coiffured is a bit effete, a bit mimsy. Nice barnet? Obviously not a real man...
Whatever, 'hairdresser's car' is undeniably an insult used to dismiss a stylish - usually convertible - car that finds favour among the nation's tonsorial artistes. But are they really all that bad? Or are they dismissed just because they're considered to be all show and no go?
And why are they usually convertibles? Is it because their owners want to show off their crowning glories, or is it some devilish conspiracy to encourage everyone else to drive cars that force you to go to the salon more frequently to salvage what's left of your windblown hair? I think we should be told.
We've picked 10 hairdressers' cars - including my own hairdresser's vehicle of choice - that you can expect to see outside you're your local salon (except on Wednesday afternoons, when it's half-day closing and they all go to have their nails done, tans topped up, etc...)
