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What Women Want – features that swing a woman’s car purchase decision!

Automatic Transmission
An automatic gearbox is primarily aimed at making car driving easier. Women have traditionally gravitated towards automatic gearbox equipped cars for the comfort and ease of driving such cars offer. India is seeing more and more cars being equipped with automatic gearboxes, and this is true even in the price conscious budget segments. The Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) is an emerging trend in the automatic gearbox equipped car segment, and one that is likely to become quite common in cars sold here.
Bluetooth
Having a Bluetooth equipped stereo system helps one not only stream music from smartphones but also allows one to talk over the phone hands free. Talking on the phone through a Bluetooth system is much safer than balancing the phone between the neck and shoulder. Women outdo men in voting for this feature that is soon becoming commonplace even on budget cars. Why, even the Tata Nano’s top end variants now offer Bluetooth connectivity as standard.
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