The only car I can think of that leans more that way is the New Beetle. I was invited to a focus group about a year before it was released, back in 97 or so.
They didn’t tell us what we were going to be “focus”ing on, and I was stunned when I walked around the curtain dividers and saw a complete New Beetle sitting there in that green color that was unique at the time.
They had us walk around to different small rooms and review colors, options, I don’t remember what else. Then they walked us over to another room where we could sit in the car. I remember sitting there looking at the seats, the instruments. Then my eyes wandered right and right there, smack in the middle of the dash, was a flower vase with a single daisy. A flower vase. From the factory. On the dash.
Then they walked us over to another room where we filled out an online survey asking what we’d pay for the car. I basically said 0 as I wouldn’t be owning one.
If you look at the M/F purchase ratio for the New Beetle, very very few males buy it. I wonder why?
