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Trufax: the only person in my family to repeated wreck a car? My brother. His poor, poor Monte Carlo. First, he pulled into a gas station and rammed a concrete pylon protecting the pumps. Then somehow lost traction on the road and ended up nose-first in the shallow ditch in front of our house. Then was working on another dead car in the garage, rolled it out for better light, used the Monte Carlo to push it back in, hit the gas too hard and crumpled the other headlight.

Well, maybe it's not quite true that he's the only one. My dad used to have a motorcycle when he was a teen, and crashed into a tree. It broke his knee. When he healed up, he took his bike out again. Another crash. Same tree. Same knee. Grandad sold his motorcycle after that. Dad and my uncle once rolled a golf cart together, too.

My mom? Her only two accidents were getting hit from behind by other people speeding. Dare say she's not the one who needs the Volkswagen.

Edited 2010-07-04 02:30 (UTC)

I'm going to have to take a break from voting - ALL of these ads are winners and by winner I mean shocking!

It's sad: once in a while you'll run across an article or book chapter collecting these classic Doyle-Dane-Bernbach ads for the Volkswagen, but it's only in the past couple of years that I've started to see the grotesquely sexist ones (like this one) reprinted.

(It's a double dose of sexism, did you notice? Your wife is running into things, but it's you (male) controlling the money.)

I feel so weird because once I really did smash up a VW Beetle, and it was my fault too. (And I'm a woman.) But I don't think my mom ever had a car accident in her life.

I still drive the same car actually, and it's just had a new dent... from being rear-ended by a man.

The accuracy of this ad bothers me. I don't know if men or women are more prone to car accidents, but I am pretty sure that if your wife hit you with her Volkswagen, after seeing that your agency actually came up with this ad, and it made it to print, it probably would hurt.

lol

"Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things."

Yes...

I hit men... with my fists.

I have a copy of this ad hanging on the inside of my front door. Whenever someone in my house utters the words "I'm not a feminist, but..." I pull this ad down, make them read it, and remind them that feminism is the reason ads like this don't appear in many magazines today.

Oh I hate this stereotype so badly! I share a crappy car with my 17 year old son, and the car has three very serious dings. I hate how people assume that I'm the one who did it even though one was the previous owner and two were my son.

Yes, and let me explain what I will hit.

If it wasn't already clear -- YES on this one. I'm a woman, and I know I'd be a terrible driver (my brain doesn't comprehend visual-spatial things well), so I take the bus. But I've seen some pretty terrible male drivers, including the ones who continually cut off said buses.

(And the guys who do 80 in a 50 zone, yelling out the window all the way, but that's another rant).

A sticking point with my Dad is that my Mum totalled their Pontiac Firefly -- a Canadian re-branding of the Geo Metro -- by running it into a moving pick-up truck. I point out that he's not perfect -- he landed another car in a ditch at the bottom of a hill.

All other awful things aside, if anybody who's a terrible driver is going to be driving my car--I'd feel a little safer if the fender had more than "just ten bolts!"

Agreed, but I've been restraining myself. My favorite so far is the one for slacks where the man is standing with his foot on his taxidermied wife's head. There will be a version of that in a few years—mark my words.

As I recall, my mom has had only one accident, when she was rear-ended. This is because she's such a tremendously cautious driver, she won't go even a hair over the speed limit. And she crosses herself when she passes a church.

For the record, my dad has been in more car accidents than my mom. And he was the one who fell asleep at the wheel and rolled our family VW into a ditch when I was 3.

Yes. I would like to hit the guy that had the idea of this ad and everybody else that approved it.

Unless your vagina made you crash the car, I think you're in the clear.

However, if your vagina did make you crash the car, I think we all need to hear that story.

May I say how wrong it feel to say "yes" to an ad that makes me want to scream "no?"

okay your comment made me think of the news story that appeared awhile back about a woman shaving her hoohaw while driving and it caused a crash....

story here

i would think men are more prone to car accidents due to insurance costs....insurance for a woman is cheaper than a man up until about age 30 and then men's car insurance rates drop to about the same as women's.....

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