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From the very beginning of motoring the female form has been used time and time again to sell, promote and market all things automotive. From the brolly dollies<\/a> who parade on the starting grids of motorsport to the heel-clad promo girls who stalk the car shows, cars and (objectified) girls go together like Katie Price and pink ponies.<\/a><\/p>\n

Strange, really, because in a world where women are pretty much as passionate and enthusiastic as men about their motors, there is a lag between the media reality of the car obsession and the actuality out on the streets. You never see car show \u2018boys\u2019 and when is the last time you saw a ripped male torso selling anything other than hair product or after-shave?<\/p>\n

General sports punditry, once the sheepskin-clad preserve of the male gender, has with Gaby Logan, Suzie Perry and Helen Chamberlain etc infused a healthy dose of womanhood into the testosterone-tainted aether of sports TV. But will we ever get to enjoy a genuine counterpoint to the stonewash-hitching maleness<\/a> of Clarkson, May & co? And no, Vicki Butler-Henderson just doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n

Does the fact that there is something fundamentally bloke-ish about the urge to list, opine, analyse, muse, pontificate and generally blather about motors, mean that the day that we see a proper female motoring anchor is still a long way off?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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