design for women

[depressedmgl]

What features should a car specifically designed for women have, serious and not so serious answers welcomed.

For a start, perhaps the gear knob should be marked as having five gears - but in reality the fifth is just a blank, and so the car actually gets to go in top gear.

[twiglet4frog]

whoosh.....that suggestion about 5th gear went over my head a little there, what did u mean?

[lethologica]

It was an insinution that female drivers never go fast enough to need the fifth gear...

For your information I'm very much interested in cars, enjoy driving and since passing my test nearly 2 years ago have had no accidents or even a scrape.  I can park as well as any other man and can't see why my car should be any different dependant on my gender.

Having said that, there are many worrying drivers around, but they tend to be either young and wearing baseball caps or old and wearing flatcaps.

I think these drivers should be forced to put some sort of identifier on their own cars so everyone knows the driver is incapable of handling anything larger than a wheelbarrow or shopping trolley.

[Jay70]

And LCD display showing them how much cheaper their car insurance was compaired with a male (of the same age / location / driving experience) for the same car.

[Cockney_si]

Whenever a woman tries to get in wearing a short skirt an automatic rollerblind comes down to hide her modesty....

[Hermia]

I'd like a car that was designed for the shorter lady (or indeed man!). I'm just under 5 foot and buying a car is a nightmare. There are so many cars where I can't even reach the pedals. Or I can reach the pedals, but am dangerous close to the wheel. I also find the seat belt cuts into my neck because it's too high up for me. Or I have trouble seeing out of the back window. The list goes on and on.

I don't want a car with flower holders or room for stilettos, I just want a car which wasn't designed with someone 5'8" in mind!

[Tim Baxter]

They ought to bring back the old fashioned choke knob so's ladies can hang their hand bags on 'em!

The internal mirror should be positioned directly in front of the ladies' face and have an auto switch which moves it back from normal (make up) to back window mode when the car starts moving.