What Cars Say About You
Women tell us they prefer a car that's agile, has good visibility, and isn't a chore to drive. Many like to sit higher and most rightly insist on plenty of storage space, reasonable prices and low running costs. Space for growing families is essential in many cases and safety is a major factor. Furthermore, many women tell us that a high fun-to-drive factor is important.
The ten cars listed here meet these criteria while allowing for different tastes, lifestyles, and incomes.
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Thelma and Louise sought top-down glory in a light blue ’66 Ford Thunderbird convertible. Carol Brady settled for a Plymouth station wagon, an eminently practical choice — and about as exciting as a soft-boiled egg.
The luxury vehicles with the highest percentage of women drivers today aren’t at either of these extremes. Rather, they’re some of the most well-balanced cars out there, from a shapely, sporty BMW roadster to a quartet of super-safe yet chic Volvos.
“The common denominator with most of the vehicles on this list is that they’re all sophisticated, refined vehicles with complex surfacing and highly-evolved design,” says Imre Molnar, dean of the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Mich., where he runs one of the world’s largest transportation design programs.
The Sexy Car. A passport to exhilaration and inspiration on the road. These cars are not for everyone. More likely their extreme styling, horsepower and artfully sculptured bodies are for the woman who enjoys the thrill of speed and enthusiastically embraces the attention she’ll receive on city streets. If your desire is to lease or own a masterpiece of performance then here is a list of the top achievers for women drivers.
The modern sport utility vehicle encompasses some of the most important features required by any driver on the road today. Rugged and dependable, with powerful engines, transmissions and suspensions, fully functional in terms of hazardous or unknown weather conditions, practical for the use of cargo and child seating and impressively safe.
These vehicles have evolved into full blown luxury cars in some cases with a wide variety of comfort and beauty features as well as the thrill of off road ability, (if you enjoy that sort of thing), and agile travel through sleet, snow and muddy conditions.