From a Washington Post story by Sophia Nguyen headlined “Women take the helm of Bond, Marlowe and other beloved series for the first time”:

The novelist Kim Sherwood was sitting in the passenger seat of an Alpine A110 S, wending through Edinburgh, Scotland, when the driver asked her what she was taking notes for. Panicked, she spluttered an answer: She was writing a book about cars. “But — you can’t drive,” he said, confused.