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)
