Apr 16, That means that female car ownership has risen twice as fast as male ownership, despite women having previously said they feel the motor.
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Effect of manipulated prestige-car ownership on both sex attractiveness ratings British Journal of Psychology, 1 , DOI: Therefore, males will pay for that 'added' benefit of a prestige car and the carmakers' profit margins will be higher. If the 'attractiveness' value of a 2 — 3 year old prestige car in good condition remains comparable to a new car, the residual trade-in value of a prestige car, as a percent of original value, will be higher than for a non-prestige auto.
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Higher residual values lead to lower leasing costs versus buying, which will increase the number of potential male buyers in lower income groups. More male buyers will help maintain higher profit margins and higher residual values. Consistent with the study, common wisdom is that expensive cars maintain there trade-in value better than less expensive cars. Since leasing does not require as much income or wealth as buying and muddies the signal sent to women about an owner's richness, women should be less impressed by expensive cars that are widely leased versus purchased.
Therefore, women should rank the attractiveness of males with prestige cars that have a high proportion of leasing less than the attractiveness of men with prestige cars that have a lower proportion of leasing.
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It would be an interesting follow-up to see if women do take corrective actions to prevent male deceit about false wealth signals. You're right, Milton, that would be a very interesting follow up study. Extricating a car that was stuck in the mud or sand or that had skidded into a ditch was no work for women. Today all that is changed. A woman can drive from Michigan to Florida on an uninterrupted ribbon of paved road over 1, miles long.
She can drive almost anywhere in the United States or Canada on roads that may be better paved than the streets in her own home city. Between and one of the drawbacks to increasing use and ownership of cars by women was fear of skidding. Muddy, gravelly, and slippery roads; two-wheel brakes; car weight and high center of gravity; hard steering — all contributed to this problem. It took an expert driver to pull himself out of a skid. It required strength of arm as well as quickness of action.
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The feeling of utter helplessness that came from a skidding car spoiled many a promising woman motorist. DeSoto, April 27, In learning to drive a car, and in operating it afterward, many women were inclined to have some trouble with the clutch and the gear shift. Here, again, a certain knack was needed. By nature not mechanically inclined and often with no very clear idea as to exactly what these mysterious operations were all about, more women than one gave up the desire to drive at the first lesson.
In easier gear shifting was introduced by Cadillac and LaSalle.
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Today syncro-mesh, syncro-shift, or some other form of easy gear shift is regular equipment even on low-price cars. At last here was a shift that any woman, no matter how great a novice, could operate without clashing. Another gradual improvement of considerable influence was due to increasing quietness.
Grinding and clashing gears, racing and knocking motors, squealing brakes, squeaking bodies, springs, and shackles were enough to annoy, if not to unnerve, any one inclined to fear that any unfamiliar noise meant the car that cost so much money was being ruined. The fuel knock that sounded as if the car were pounding itself to pieces began to disappear in with introduction of anti-knock gasoline.
While from to we believe that the woman was most important as a passenger and of great influence in directing motor car purchase, from on it is our belief that her presence to the industry will be most felt as an increasing user of motor cars.
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