One more reason to buy a Volkwagen: it's cheap to fix when your wife wrecks it! The ad copy actually says, "Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things." Is that why insurance companies charge more to cover male drivers? Eventually, ads like this went away as more women bought cars without their husbands along to make the buying decisions. The ad is part of a collection at Buzzfeed called 10 Retro Ads That Made Women Look Like Complete Idiots. Link
in 1969 my Dad spent $1895.00 [ one thousand eight hundred ninety five ] for his brand new bug
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A 1960s American car hitting a VW would have caused more damage than a crumpled fender.
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1969 The year I was born, doesn't seem a very nice time to be a women. That TAB ad is chilling.
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"Two pennies a mile, two pennies a mile!"
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