About A Girls Guide to Cars, the Best Car Site for Women

We Are a Community and We are Powerful.

Women buy or influence the purchase of 85% of all cars and outright buy 65% of all cars. Without us, the auto industry would not thrive. You’d think that car makers and dealers would be falling all over themselves trying to win us over, but, no. Women are overlooked, marginalized and sadly, even victimized. 

A Girls Guide to Cars was founded to give voice to the powerful yet often overlooked female car buyer. We’re here to change that by empowering women through knowledge and community, and that starts with trust. 

Our Ethics and Standards Policy: It Starts With Trust

You can trust us. We only share first person, knowledgable, researched, authentic and honest stories about cars, car buying, maintenance and the life we live in and around our cars. A Girls Guide to Cars writers are experienced, either through a lifetime around cars or as a seasoned journalist who is learning more about cars every day.

We do not sell our opinions, we don’t sell links or access to our site and we don’t publish content that we didn’t create ourselves (we do accept advertising and sponsored content, which you can read about below). 

We are honest, accessible and available for our audience to rely on for expert advice and opinions. Just message us, here or on our social channels. 

Our Ethics Protect Us—and You

Ethics are the underlying foundation of trust; it’s how we know when we can and can’t trust someone. Just so there’s no confusion, here are the ethical lines that we adhere to:

• 100% authentic content: We don’t use AI or other sources to create content; we don’t off-shore our content to writers who don’t understand our business or audience; we quote and cite our sources and we clearly state our opinions so there is no confusion
• No conflicts of interest: We won’t lie to you and get paid for it. Plain and simple. 
• We are dedicated to diversity and respect for the individual. We expect this of every one of our writers and partners. Diversity is a fundamental element to who we are. 
• We respect your privacy and will not sell your data
• Our writers all sign an ethics and standards agreement before they write for us so that they understand and adhere to this policy, too

Events, Press Trips and Content 

Events are a fact of content creation; it’s how writers get access to cars. Often, car makers may pay our way to an event to test drive a new car, but we also attend events in our home cities, go to auto shows, press organization drives, at-home test drives and more to bring you car stories and reviews. We do what it takes to bring you these stories and do so through the guidance stated in our ethics policy. Whether we pay to attend an event or a car maker does, our opinions are not swayed; we still tell you exactly what we think.

Sometimes we leave an event with a gift or branded swag. Generally, and when appropriate, those things go into the swag closet and are given away to readers. Follow our Instagram account to win that swag; it can add up to some pretty cool stuff!

Advertising and Sponsored Content on A Girls Guide to Cars

We accept advertising, which is one of the main ways we pay our bills and our writers. Our ad partner, The Publisher Desk, sells our ads on the open market and those ads may be tailored to your digital media profile. While A Girls Guide to Cars does not have control over the ads you see, we have opted out of ads for risky vices (guns, alcohol, gambling and the like) so that our site is family safe, both in advertising and content.

We also from time to time accept direct advertising and sponsored content projects; these are stories or videos that are focused on an advertiser. These relationships are built on trust between A Girls Guide to Cars and the advertiser and clearly identified as sponsored content. We would never hide that or accept a sponsorship for something we don’t believe in. 

Meet Our Team