I drive a car with 287hp. It does 0-60 in 5.8 seconds, and a quarter mile in 14 seconds, at 99.3 mph. My quick maneuverable car has gotten me out of *MANY* potential accidents. There's no way I'd drive a car that took 12 seconds to get to 60, let alone 20.

Of course it's sexism. You've hit the nail right on the head. So long as companies continue to churn out products geared toward "the weaker sex," which gets a little too confused by all this technical stuff, society's placement of women in the grand scheme of things is still going to amount to little more than the glorified homemaker image women have been forced to live with.