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  • Why Fiat owner's manuals shouldn't comment on women's legs

    06/10/2016 12:59:27 PM PDT · by Impala64ssa · 40 replies
    The Car Connection ^ | 6/10/16 | Richard Read
    Despite the tone of America's current presidential campaigns, it is, in fact, 2016. In theory, companies should understand the kinds of actions that might be interpreted as racist or sexist. Unless, of course, those companies make laundry detergent in Italy or China. Or unless they're Fiat. Alas, Fiat has learned that the hard way, after facing serious backlash over an owner's manual distributed to customers in Argentina. Most startlingly, the manual assumed that cars would always be driven by men, with women only riding as "co-pilots" in the passenger's seat or back seat. It also assumed that women don't know...