GM engineers dressed in drag while designing new SUVs

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Posted Aug 9th 2007 8:22AM by John Neff
Filed under: SUVs, Etc.

They wore high-heels, fake press-on nails and garbage bag skirts to simulate what The Car Connection refers to as "female handicaps" (are we really calling them that?) while operating various features of their new 'utes.

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This seems more like a publicity stunt than a realistic way to test cars. They should have been much more worried about shorter heights, lower body weights, and different centers of gravity that women have. Those seem a little more important than press on nails.