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[[Sarcasm Mode|Everyone knows women don't know anything about cars]]. Or at least, that's what these guys seem to think. Because if a woman shows up at their dealership trying to buy a car, then they become much more likely to try to mark up the price or sell her that old [[Alleged Car]]. Something of an [[Undead Horse Trope]], since nearly all examples are either parodies or subversions. In media, it's common for the woman to actually do enough research to know more about the car she wants than the salesman himself. Of course, he probably just thinks that it's adorable that the "Little Lady" thinks she knows anything. Until she sets him straight anyway.
This can just as easily happen (and may be more common) when women take their cars to the mechanic, who begins to make up imaginary problems and generally overcharge her just because she's a woman. It's often [[Truth in Television]]; many car salesman and mechanics will try to scam women (and just as often men) who even hint at not knowing enough about cars. A subtrope of [[Honest
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* Popped up in ''[[
* This is likely a part of the reason Ash and Emily go to the used car place together in ''[[Misfile]]''. Emily deliberately plays the sweet, naive girl who listens to everything the salesman says, and then Ash chimes in and shows him up with her savviness. The trope is [[Double Subverted]] here because Ash actually [[Gender Bender|used to be a boy]].
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