Miata Mailing List: August 1996, Message #13
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   From: mx5@juno.com (Mike Menozzi)
Subject: Re: The Miata; a lady's car. Or; Has the Soft and Shapely
   Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:45:27 -0400


On Wed, 31 Jul 1996 14:47:54 -0400 Will Errington 
writes:
>My mail is taking an eternity to get to you so apologies if my 
>messages
>often arrive when a thread is dead.
>
>There seems to be a healthy number of women posting to this group. 
>Makes me
>feel a sight less anoraky. Do other car discussion groups have such a 
>happy
>balence?
>
>But! Does this mean that the Miata is indeed a woman's car? Now read 
>on.....
>
>Three or four years ago, the UK TV programme Top Gear (see posts 
>passim) set
>out to ascertain the veracity of the complaint often made by women who 
>own
>sports cars; namely that boy racers leer at them, try to race with 
>them,
>shout Wooorr! Fancy a bit of that darlin'! etc. When selecting a 
>sports car
>to test this hypothesis, the programme naturally opted for the most 
>stylish,
>rorty and eye catching "newest" designed vehicle on the market (ahem). 
>Yes,
>as you would hope, nay, expect, the lady in question was given a (Ph) 
>red
>(d) MX-5 (or Miata) and send out to swan about the place a bit. After 
>a
>week, the young lady, alas, had no male ego-based incidents to report.
>
>These results were analysed and pored over by the mightiest
>psychologically-inclined brains in the country (probably from Lewisham
>Polytechnic- apologies to US readers for the unintelligible 
>intellectual
>snobbery diplayed there). The final conclusion? Men feel "threatened" 
>by a
>"weaker" female driving a "penis" and so, deep within the cortex of 
>the
>brain where the caveman lurks, the male responds by vanquishing the 
>female,
>or intimidating her not to join in at the race from the traffic lights 
>anyway.
>
>Why does this not happen with the Miata? Why, with its cheeky open 
>mouth,
>perky pop up lights and feminine curves, the Miata is seen as 
>submissive and
>unthreatening by the hairy men of our society. Or, more bluntly, a 
>girl's car.
>
>Comments?
>
>Take care.
>
>
>Will 
>
>from the UK 
>covered in Olympic glory
>Tiddlywinks in 2000
>1.8i with a dent and a dodgy tire
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Because it doesn't have 300 hp and 500 ft lb of torque. Really!
Mike Menozzi