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0Featured: Stirling Moss doubts whether women have the mental strength to race F1 1366727400
Stirling Moss has been quoted as saying that he believes women lack the mental fortitude to compete in Formula One. "I think they have the strength, but I don't know if they've got the mental aptitude to race hard, wheel-to-wheel," Moss said during a BBC Radio 5 special on women in F1. He went on ...
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Featured: Danica Patrick putting the women's movement back according to Slate 1361041200
Danica Patrick has been a lightning rod for both praise and criticism throughout her objectively successful, decade-long career as a racing driver. Putting to the side for a moment that it is still very rare for a woman to get a drive in a top-tier series, something that Patrick first managed ...
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Report: Indonesian province bans women from straddling motorbikes behind male riders 1358118120
Aceh, a province of Indonesia, is the only one of the island nation's areas to have adopted Sharia law. Over the past few years the region of 4.5 million has passed laws to bring its populace, native and otherwise, more into line with its interpretation of Sharia, opening a Sharia court and ...
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Report: Women outnumber men for first time on US roads 1353504780
According to a study by the University of Michigan, women now outnumber men on US roads for the first time in the country's history. Analysts at the school's Transportation Research Institute used data from driver's license statistics for their findings, and the trend may have a widespread impact ...
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Featured: Top 10 things women notice about your car 1350487800
As we all know, there's a lengthy list of differences between men and women. Aside from the great debate on whether you should "stop and ask for directions," there are a number of things that really can make or break your next hot date... even before stepping into your car. Whether you'll admit ...
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Report: Vote for your favorite all-female Ford Mustang showcar for SEMA 1338069660
A woman's place is in the garage – and some people want to keep them there. The SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women was created by Ford Motor Co. and the Specialty Equipment Market Association to create a pony car designed by and built by women. But before a group of volunteers pull out ...
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Study: These are the 10 new cars with the highest percentage of female ownership 1332941400
If you hear the pejorative "chick car," what comes to mind? Mazda MX-5 Miata? Volvo C70? Would you believe neither made Inside Line's list of 2011 models with the highest per cent of female ownership? No. 1, with 57.9-per cent female ownership was the Volvo S40. Considering the female dollar ...
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Video: Aston Martin loves women, women love Aston Martin 1327012740
If Aston Martin wants to make a sexy commercial, there probably doesn't need to be that much thought involved. All the ultra luxury brand needs to arouse the typical auto enthusiast is a collage of shots of the company's Vantage, Rapide or DB9. That didn't stop Aston Martin from stocking its ...
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Study: Women at greater risk of injury in crashes 1319581680
The American Journal of Public Health has published a new study on the role of gender in auto accidents. The results indicate that women are more likely to be injured than men when involved in comparable crashes. Researchers say that when wearing seat belts, female drivers have a higher risk of ...
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The women of Motor Trend tell us which cars catch their eyes 1319385660
In spite of believing we have a decent idea about what the fairer sex really wants, we're frequently faced with correction: "You thought that's what we wanted, but we actually want this other thing..." It's happened again courtesy of female staffers at Motor Trend, who've laid out six "Cars that ...
