Gah! It’s a life-size Barbie car, complete with accessories! {Figures each sold separately. Batteries not included.} Similarly, there was a Volvo concept car a couple of years back styled - mostly as a publicity exercise, I think - by a bunch of chicks, which included such innovations as slots to put handbags and purses.
My vote goes to this baby.
Yeah, Una Persson! I think I’m in love with that Dodge Charger.
Here we are: the Volvo YCC
Looks like the Barbie De Lorean {large bags of cocaine each sold separately}. Favourite quote: “The only time I ever open up my bonnet is when I need to fill up with windscreen washer fluid.” Pink and bubbly, presumably.
I really like that Dodge La Femme, pretty classy (but then, i’m a femme). That whole accessory bit should be used again, and updated, with, say, a nice little tampon case that fits in the dash just so.
I think the most Girly car award should go to the Mary Kay Cadillac , cause you gotta sell a whole lotta makeup, and wear it, to get one. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
I don’t get what you’re all talking about. They all just look like cars to me. <shrug>
Nobody’s mentioned the Mary Kay pink Caddilac?
StG
On a side note, Ford has announced that they are making their Mercury division the ‘women’s car’ division. They will be targeting all their Mercury cars specifically at women, with special accessories, colors, etc.
“If I had money, I tell you what I’d do,
I’d go downtown and buy a Mercury or two,
I’m crazy about a Mercury…”
I gotta confess, that YCC is actually a pretty decent looking car. I’d drive one that wasn’t outfitted with chick accessories. I think the bulbous front fenders are the hallmark of girlyness, and I’d like to see 'em flattened out. I like the interior layout too.
Would it help if I wore a darker shade lipstick?
OK, now that’s a cute car. Much better than the Beetle.
And no fumbling with bonnet latches or filler caps! No more batting your eyelashes in cute mechanical ineptitude at petrol station attendants! A paint job just like a non-stick frying pan! {now there’s a simile that’ll catch the little ladies’ attention!} Nothing screams, “I’m stupid and helpless and need a man to do everything for me!” like a Vulva YCC.
Yikes! That new Vulvy is way past yond for me. From the above mentioned Vulvy website:
“Parallel parking assistance is a function both males and females requested.
In the YCC, this is a two-stage system. When you need to park between two other cars, but first want to make sure there will be enough space, you press the parking assistance button once for the space-check function. If the system says yes, you can then select the Autopark function by pressing the same button again. The car helps you with the steering to manoeuvre you into the parking space, but you control the accelerator, brakes and gearshift. Autopark streamlines your parallel parking with flair.”
Gak maybe in Sweden…
Self-parking is already available on the Prius in Japan. I read somewhere that over 80% of Prius buyers there choose this $2000 option.
Gotta love the way it doesn’t have a bonnet - don’t bother having a look for yourself, it’ll phone the dealership for you everytime you need your wallet emptied - I mean, your oil changed.
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I don’t get this way of thinking that any particular body type car is feminine or masculine, particularly convertibles. For many of us old enough to remember the Great Convertible Dearth of the 1970s, when the only ones available were expensive imports, the very idea of owning any convertible is still alluring enough to put aside any such misgivings that a car doesn’t match my gender.
I do think the color is probably more a function of the buyer’s gender than the body type, although it has been my impression that women buyers are more apt to go for the practical, making convertibles generally slightly more attractive to the male buyer.
The only time I’ve seen a VW Cabriolet being driven by a man… it was my friend, and he’s gay. Hate to stereotype but… the Cabriolet is a total chick car.
This is where they will get the tires. 