HIS AND HERS

Torque Talk BY BEN SELBY GENDER VS. VEHICLES

The music, style, cinema, and, of course, the cars of yesteryear have always been a keen interest of mine, especially the latter.

However, one aspect of motoring’s past best left there is the belief of what comprises a “man’s car” or a “woman’s car”.

For some time, a thought process has existed where a car’s size, styling, power fi gures or engine capacity dictated whether a man or woman should drive it. An example of this could be when I owned a fi rst-generation Mazda MX5.

Despite it being serious fun, but not super-fast or fl amboyant, I was often accused by many of being a “hairdresser”. Contrast that to women who own Ferraris getting stick from certain groups because they view the cars from one of the most coveted names in motoring as a “man’s car”.

It doesn’t matter whether you are a bloke and, like me, love small classic Italian cars, or a woman, such as my wife, who would love to own a Hummer, one should not feel turned o by views of what men and woman should and shouldn’t drive. Be true to yourself.

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