PETER SAGAL, HOST:
In just a minute, Bill says, rhyme not a crook. It's the Listener Limerick Challenge. If you'd like to play, give us a call 1-888-WAIT-WAIT. That's 1-888-924-8924. Right now, panel, some more questions for you from the week's news. Alonzo, the Spanish car manufacturer SEAT is being criticized for unveiling a car made especially, they say, for whom?
ALONZO BODDEN: Wouldn't be parents.
SAGAL: Well, these people are parents often, but that's not specifically it.
FAITH SALIE: That's what minivans are.
SAGAL: I'll give you a hint, and this is real, it was designed...
BODDEN: Could it be for the two mothers to ride in the front?
SAGAL: Actually, you're on the right track. It was actually designed, and this is true, in collaboration with Cosmopolitan magazine.
BODDEN: Oh, single mothers or models? Models?
SAGAL: No, not quite models.
BODDEN: Oh, models. All right.
SALIE: You're going too niche.
SAGAL: I'll just give it to you - for women.
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SAGAL: It's called the SEAT Mii concept car, and it comes with jewel effect rims, a handbag hook and, quote, "eyeliner headlights emphasized in the same way as makeup emphasizes the eye," unquote. They also brag that it's always up for a good time and runs on chocolatinis instead of gas.
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SAGAL: Now I will continue to quote from the manufacturer. The car is perfect for, quote, "impromptu karaoke performances, last minute wardrobe changes and dramatic gossip sessions," unquote.
SALIE: Oh, this is so offensive.
TOM BODETT: It really is.
SAGAL: I know.
SALIE: And it comes in three colors, right? It comes in pink, rainbow or sparkle, right?
SAGAL: Something like that. The worst part is when you turn on the GPS and it says, look, honey, can I just drive?
BODDEN: I think the designer...
SAGAL: It's not me, man. It's the car. I didn't say that.
SALIE: You know what kind of car most women who are mothers would want?
SAGAL: Yeah.
SALIE: The kind of car when you get in and there's an au pair who's always installed in the back...
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BODETT: But wasn't - I mean, wasn't Saturn cars considered, like, the - a woman's brand 'cause they do that for women in a sense that they didn't want - women don't want to go through that sales thing on a lot. So Saturns were all like that personal service. You order your own Saturn.
SAGAL: Yeah.
BODETT: They're basic cars. Women don't care about cars like men do. And they make very rational. No, I mean, this was...
SALIE: That was the assumption, you're saying.
BODETT: Right. Well, where men are very emotional when they buy cars. They do it for status and all that.
SALIE: Wait, but - wait, is this your opinion or Saturn's?
BODETT: This is - no...
SALIE: You're wrong.
BODETT: ...This is what I read about Saturn. I think this is very complimentary to women in that they recognize that women don't make their car-buying decisions emotionally like men do. Like, they get a man on the car lot...
SALIE: Women care about cars, too.
BODETT: But not in the way that men do. That's...
BODDEN: Tom, I can't tell you how much fun it is to watch some other guy dig this hole.
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BODETT: I think I'm being somewhat. I think, perhaps, I misspoke.
SALIE: I can't hear you. You're too far down the hole.
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BODETT: I'm not...
BILL KURTIS: Tom, just say, I didn't say it and I won.
SAGAL: Yeah, exactly.
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SAGAL: It's the Trump method.
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RIHANNA: (Singing) Shut up and drive, drive, drive, drive. Shut up and drive, drive, drive, drive. I got class like a '57 Cadillac. Start over drive... Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.