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The New YCC from Volvo: Your Concept CarThe new YCC car from Volvo is the first to be designed entirely by, and for, women, but at first glance they needn’t have bothered. It looks like they got the fat bloke propping up the bar to think of every sexist joke about female drivers, and build it into a vehicle.
Women, you know, can’t park, so this car has an autopark function, that lets you know you whether you can fit the space, then steers the car into it.
We all know that traffic jams are caused by silly girls adjusting their hair in the rearview mirror, or ferreting for their handbag in the back, so the YCC — Your Concept Car — has a groove in the headrest for your ponytail and incorporates the gears and handbrake into the steering wheel so as to provide a storage locker close to hand.
And, despite the fact that women are statistically safer drivers, that’s not what White Van Man thinks, so the entire rear end of the car is a specially toughened bumper.
It’s only a surprise that it doesn’t go all “moody” ; and try to run over male pedestrians every time it needs a service — but hey, that’s why the car automatically contacts the garage when it needs fixing (how could a woman tell?), and the bonnet is sealed shut to stop women meddling in what they don’t understand.
I was not predisposed to like the YCC when I took the wheel. Th
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