Can anyone tell me the significance of marking a used car as "lady driven" or "owned by a woman"?

I can't figure out which stereotype that's supposed to play off of.

From: [identity profile] zenten.livejournal.com


I think I've heard this one before, it's based on the concept that women don't drive much.

From: [identity profile] waterspyder.livejournal.com


yeah...

I remember to take my G2 exit I had to list how many hours of *highway driving* (400 series) I had done in the previous 12 months. I looked at the woman like "How am I supposed to know that?"

She forced me to figure it out

Because of the two jobs I had at the time required me to travel a lot, I had spent over 132 hours on the highway alone. Forget all the city driving.

From: [identity profile] zenten.livejournal.com


It's a stupid and innacurate sterotype, but I think it's the one this is based on.

From: [identity profile] krueger.livejournal.com


It is...The only thing I want to see on an add for a used car it..."taken care of meticulously" Driven lightly, low KM's... well maintained. I couldn't care less who drove it.


From: [identity profile] torrain.livejournal.com


That's the little old lady who only uses the car for grocery-shopping on Sundays. Has now been replaced by the nymphomaniac who only used the back seat.

(As noted below, I'm guessing it's based on the assumption that women (young ones, at any rate) drive less and are safer drivers, which means the car is less likely to have been busted and repaired.)
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