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Survey: Car Buying in 2013 is a Woman’s World

In the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Toula (Nia Vardalos) wants to go back to school but is worried that her father will never allow it because he is the “head of the house.” She confides these fears to her mother Maria, and Maria delivers one of the most memorable lines of the film. “Let me tell you something, Toula. The man is the head, but the woman is the neck. And she can turn the head any way she wants.”

There is new research on how married couples purchase vehicles that pretty much proves what Maria and wives the world over already know. Women have a great deal of influence over their husband’s decisions, and most of the time, the husband doesn’t even know they are being swayed one way or the other.

According to a survey from the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, 72 percent of married male auto buyers think they have more influence over car they will purchase. By comparison, 60 percent of women think they have more influence over the final purchase. Over half of women and almost three-quarters of men think they have the final say. While some wives or husbands might defer to their spouse, there will clearly be some overlap of the husband and wife both thinking they made the decision.

Some people might ask why I think it is more likely that wives have more influence than the husbands. After all, these wives could think that they are influencing the decision when they really are not. The reason why I tend to believe the wives is because these days, women purchase 60 percent of all new cars and 53 percent of all used cars. They dominate their male counterparts in buying both new and used cars, and they are more experienced buying a car, whether they are buying it with or without a husband.

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Men or Women: Who are the Better Car Shoppers?

Cars and cars culture have long been considered a man’s world. Whether or not that is a sexist viewpoint is up for debate, but the stereotype of a car nut is a rough-and-tumble man. A recent study, however, is shaking up the notion of gender and car knowledge.

According to the study, more than two-thirds of women paid to get a third-party inspection on an out-of-state lease transfer compared to only 54.5 percent of men. Women buyers were also more likely to ask the right questions about the car including safety performance, the ownership and incident history, and how the car will function under specific conditions. Their male counterparts were much more interested in the aesthetics of the car, its engine performance, the vehicle’s technology, and its driving performance as a whole.

What is really interesting about the study, though, is the implications for future women car shoppers. When the study was broken down based on age, there were significantly more women ages 21 to 30 getting a third-party inspection than men. 42.3 percent of men, less than half, got a third-party inspection while 78.2 percent of women opted to get the inspection. This means that young women are being smarter, being more careful, and overall being more practical than men their own age.

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