Torque Talk: Gender vs Vehicles

The music, style, cinema, and, of course, the cars of yesteryear have always been a keen interest of mine, especially the latter.

However, one aspect of motoring’s past best left there is the belief of what comprises a “man’s car” or a “woman’s car”.

For some time, a thought process has existed where a car’s size, styling, power figures or engine capacity dictated whether a man or woman should drive it.

An example of this could be when I owned a first-generation Mazda MX5. Despite it being serious fun, but not super-fast or flamboyant, I was often accused by many of being a “hairdresser”. Contrast that to women who own Ferraris getting stick from certain groups because they view the cars from one of the most coveted names in motoring as a “man’s car”.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a bloke and, like me, love small classic Italian cars, or a woman, such as my wife, who would love to own a Hummer, one should not feel turned of by views of what men and woman should and shouldn’t drive.
Be true to yourself.