Exactly, "on practicality and functionality, not so much on " marketing.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:49 PM, EVDL Administrator via EV < [email protected]> wrote: > On 16 Mar 2016 at 0:38, jerry freedomev via EV wrote: > > > Judging from my experience with babes and cute small unusual cars, they > > are babe magnets in multiple ways. First they love small cutes cars > > and just come over to see it better than anything I've seen. > > I dunno. Whatever works for you, I guess. > > Maybe the women you know are different from the ones I know. But I'd never > dare use language like that around them. If I ever used the word "babe" to > refer to any of them (especially the one I live with!), I'd expect to be > shown the door, at the very least. > > I'm pretty sure they'd treat any car that advertised itself as a "babe > magnet" about the same way. It wouldn't matter whether it was an EV or an > ICEV. > > Again, maybe I have atypical female friends, but most of the women I know > choose their vehicles the same way I do - largely on practicality and > functionality, not so much on appearance. > > I worked with a woman in the early 2000s who was really taken with the > then- > new PT Cruiser, but that's the only example of that I can think of. (She > ended up buying a Honda Civic.) > > I've seen the phenomenon you describe, though - sort of. When I owned a > Comuta-Car, I found that it DID attract interest from young women. Well, > girls, actually. High school girls. At the time I was in my 30s, so it > was, shall we say, a little late for me to benefit from anything that > attracted interest from high school girls. > > Comuta-Cars weren't being made yet when I was in high school, and I > wouldn't > have had the money for one anyway. > > BTW, the teen girls - and others - used to ask if the C-car really ran on > batteries. After the second or third time I got that question, I went to > Radio Shack and bought a plastic clip that held 8 D-cells, filling it with > old, flat Energizer Bunny discards from my flashlight. I connected its > terminals to a long piece of brown #18 zip cord, tying the other end of the > cord under the car's dash. Then I put the battery holder on that shelf > under the dash that used to hold the battery charger and gas heater in the > original Citicars. After that, when someone asked that question, I'd pull > out the battery holder to prove that the car really ran on batteries. > > Fun times. :-) > > David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA > EVDL Administrator > > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > EVDL Information: http://www.evdl.org/help/ > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > Note: mail sent to "evpost" and "etpost" addresses will not > reach me. To send a private message, please obtain my > email address from the webpage http://www.evdl.org/help/ . > = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = > > > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA ( > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > > -- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 585-6737 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Mobile and Google Phone [email protected] <[email protected]> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20160316/cb37995a/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
