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Title: GM engineers dressed in drag while designing new SUVs
Post by: LostInTime on August 09, 2007, 04:10:24 PM
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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.
Title: Re: GM engineers dressed in drag while designing new SUVs
Post by: emmi/andy on August 09, 2007, 07:45:53 PM
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.