Tag Archives: FOXY Promise

Why choose a female friendly garage?

Q: Why should women choose a FOXY Choice approved female friendly garage? A: Because they are better than the rest. The UK retail motor industry is surely one of the last male bastions employing c90% men and only 10% women. … Continue reading

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Women and garage evenings

I’ve been involved in several well intentioned garage evenings for women and have reached several conclusions. Firstly that they are time consuming to organise and often disappointingly attended. Secondly that it is the best and female friendly garages that do … Continue reading

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Garages that pay commission are rarely female friendly

Whilst it’s easy for UK garages to claim to be good and/or female friendly without having to prove it, surely there should be some substance behind these claims as well as a means to monitor the situation if things go … Continue reading

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A female friendly community garage in Prestatyn

Other than having signed the FOXY Promise to ‘never overcharge, patronise or sell women services they don’t need’, a sure fire way to spot a genuinely female friendly garage is when they evidently play an active part in their local … Continue reading

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Motoring manners for modern Millies…

If you want to know about motoring etiquette then Debretts and car manufacturer Vauxhall have combined to write the ultimate 47 page book called ‘Thoroughly Modern Motoring Manners’. When it comes to women drivers we are to get out of … Continue reading

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Record complaints in UK car dealerships

I picked up a great foxy tip from a lady driver I met this morning at a Business Link ‘Access to Finance’ seminar in Burgess Hill this morning. She told me how she had been able to prove that she … Continue reading

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If women won’t buy new cars, what will they buy?

The motor industry is struggling to sell new and used cars. Not the small, green and £35 car tax cars that most women drivers want to buy but the bigger, more thirsty CO2 polluters, like Porsche, Land Rover, Jeep and … Continue reading

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