My brother dragged me to the Honda Collection Hall while he was here. This museum features all sorts of Honda products, including bunches of race cars and motorcycles. It also takes FOUR HOURS to get there from Tokyo, via train and bus, but that’s fodder for another post.
Anyway, while oohing and aahing over all the exciting Honda stuff, I came across the dozer below, with its vaguely sexist description:
A new lifestyle tool that features minimized-noise, cleaner and easier operation, and designed exclusively for people living in snowy regions. Considering that the tool is often used by older people as well as women, it sports a fully covered design eliminating any mechanical image, which to the eyes of such operators is sometimes seen as adverse and seemingly less friendly.
So, no worries girls! If the exposed mechanical bits on your current dozer have you frightened, Honda has just the thing. Sheesh.
(Thanks to dug for pointing out this is a snowdozer, not a snowblower.)
Even with it’s naughty bits covered, it seems quite obvious that this is not in fact a snow blower, but in fact a snow pusher. It’s merely a plow, my friend. So maybe it’s for women who don’t like to blow? I’m terrible.
Posted by: dug at September 13, 2004 12:14 PM