Posted on 03/25/2009 12:23:41 PM PDT by Schnucki
Men who drive expensive cars really are more attractive to women, according to a study by university researchers.
Psychologists proved what car-dealers have boasted for generations the car one drives is key when it comes to turning a woman's head.
The university team showed women pictures of the same man sitting in two cars - a £70,000 silver Bentley Continental and a battered Ford Fiesta.
The women, who were aged between 21 to 40, picked the man sitting in the Bentley ahead of the same man in the Ford.
Dr Michael Dunn, of the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, said it shows women rate a man higher if he is behind the wheels of a "fancy motor rather than in an old banger".
His research, in the latest edition of the British Journal of Psychology, also shows that men are more interested in a women's looks not her motor.
The researchers say the men tested in the same way are not impressed by whatever car a woman drives because they judge purely on her face and figure.
Dr Dunn said his findings confirmed that women judge a man by his wealth and status whereas men are primarily concerned with what a woman looks like.
He said he was spurred by his own interest in evolutionary psychology along with the increasing number of women buying so-called "high end" motors.
He said: "There's a wide variety of evidence that does suggest that females are more influenced by wealth and status.
"It's not a recent phenomenon. It is very ingrained and the evidence is not just anecdotal.
"Females focus on questions of wealth and status because if the male possesses those, that male would be in a better condition to rear healthy offspring."
Dr Dunn believes this basic human trait will not
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No kidding. Whodathunkit.
It’s not the cars. It’s the cash. Women have always been attracted by $$. It’s the only way Bill Gates ever got a date.
Any 20 year old hetero could confirm this.
At 20, you ARE your car.
How much money was wasted on this “research”? They act as if they were surprised by the results.
...and the sky is blue... Tell me something we HAVEN’T known for a century!
Dennis Kucinich must be loaded.
We see the same thing in other animals.
Male rabbits just want to be around the female(s). Females just want the real estate.
So I should get rid of my Prius and go back to my Mercedes?
(Just kidding)
i’ll put this in the “DUH!” file.
After 40, it's the shoes.
Some government funds were needed to figure this out?
I recall an AD designed by the Mental Patients in the movie Crazy People where Dudley Moore turned them into an Ad Agency. It was one about the men who drive Jaguars.
A guy sees a very beautiful womanin a bar. He approaches her and asks her if she’d be willing to sleep with him for $10 million.
She said “Yes!”
He then asked her if she’d do it for $20.
Her response was “What kind of lady do you think I am?”
He replied “We’ve already established that, now we are just haggling over the price.”
Where is the feminist outrage about this study? Wouldn’t the N.O.W. crowd be outraged about a study showing females being so shallow and so stereotypical in their attraction to men?
Wouldn’t some of the N.O.W. crowd even be shocked that women are attracted to men at all, when you consider that a woman needs a man as much as fish needs a bicycle??????
Anyway, the study casts women, or womyn, in a bad light. Professional feminists can’t be happy about this.
OK, guys, let’s ask the same question.
Q: Two women have cars, one a Bentley, and the other a Ford. Which one are you more attacted to?
A: The one with the biggest t—s
In other news, women prefer Antonio Banderes to Jack Black and spend a lot of money on shoes.
I’ve had little luck with my mini van. Not sure why.
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