Sex Symbol Attraction?

14-06-2009 05:13AM #1

David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff — a measure of their arousal — after hearing the revving exotics, but the amount the women had was off the charts.

Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2008/09/weve-got-some-b/

Why do some women like lads that drive sexy looking cars? OK, some will say the answer is obvious, while others will proclaim that the lad's personality, integrity, humour, thoughtfulness, and physical fitness are more important than material things?

As for me, I would never be influenced by a lad that drove a B!ue fully restored 1966 rag-top XKE Jag like this one... (Bad B!ue groans...but I want to drive!).

Overheal · 14-06-2009 05:22AM

That car is shaped like a penis

Mystery solved.

Manic Moran · 14-06-2009 05:29AM

I'm sorry, but if my equipment were shaped like an E-Type, I'd be seriously disconcerted. (Now, if it were shaped like a Rheinmetall 120mm smoothbore cannon... no, wait. That would be bad too...)

Believe it or not, I don't actually buy my cars on the basis of attracting women. If the woman doesn't appreciate the qualities of the car, well, her loss. I buy my toys for me!

NTM (Interloper)

14-06-2009 05:30AM

In before the LOCK! (Wait a minute! I started this thread!)

Overheal · 14-06-2009 05:36AM

Sure Michael Cera drove a Yugo in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist and he still got the girl

Alright blue I'll leave you alone now.

cormie · 14-06-2009 08:03AM

I've never been into cars, not even since I started driving. My cousin used to collect model cars and there was one that always stood out to me, Lamborghini, it was just the way it was shaped and the look of it. A few years passed and then one day as I went into do some carving, my friend showed me a magazine with the new LP640 model:

I wanted it badly, every time I got in my little fiesta I imagined driving a Lamborghini. No other car ever got me the same way, a Ferrari, Veyron, all these fancy cars, sure they were nice to look at but they were all just cars, cars that like any other car, I never had interest in. The Lamborghini is different though, I don't know why. I still want one, and my interest in cars is so minimal, that I could actually see myself just driving the van until I've saved up for a Lamborghini and not prolong the waiting by spending money on other cars in between. I'm not really materialistic at all so it's a strange one.:o

I wouldn't want to be thought of as somebody who bought it just because they had the money to and wanted to show off as there's something more than that. It's a strange situation. If anyone wants to donate to the get cormie a Lamborghini fund, do let me know :P

stovelid · 14-06-2009 10:00AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

Why do some women like lads that drive sexy looking cars?

Because they're dumb and shallow?

Wibbs · 14-06-2009 10:23AM

A high revving engine sounds dangerous and exciting. Both turn ons in men and women. I've read about studies before that showed women get turned on more than men emotionally and sexually by danger and will attach more to the man they share that with. So women on dates who see horror movies were more turned on than women who watched romcoms. I'd reckon it would be the same with cars. Throw in the status aspect and you're on a winner. It doesn't mention if the people were told what car they were listening to. If it was a blind test then that lends more to the idea that its the dangerous noise itself maybe.

The best engine note I've heard was a 1960's Ferrari(Think it was an GTO) running a hillclimb race. Oh. My. God.:eek: Pure mechanical symphony. Can't find it on the web though.

silvervixen84 · 14-06-2009 12:17PM

I nearly melted when i saw the Bugatti Veyron at the Top Gear show back in November, i love it so much!

*goes to check Euromillions ticket

Snowie · 14-06-2009 12:42PM

Wibbs wrote: »

The best engine note I've heard was a 1960's Ferrari(Think it was an GTO) running a hillclimb race. Oh. My. God.:eek: Pure mechanical symphony. Can't find it on the web though.

250 GTO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYz5GfrR04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idmwzn-0tI

Manic Moran · 14-06-2009 01:25PM

40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari,

There is some critical information missing, here. For example, did he tell them that they were listening to high-performance engines? Those cars will have an entirely different engine note to, say, a big American V8, which can sound just as wonderful in its own way, even if it's in a boring and unsexy Pontiac GTO body. Or even the simple Alfa Romeo 6-banger, which had its own melodious note whilst being on a very non-exotic car. Did he even play non-exotic engines? What if he played the engine note off my Chevy V6, would they have the same result of testosterone increase as off my Audi V8? Can the average person off the street tell the difference between the various types?

NTM

PK2008 · 14-06-2009 01:54PM

Some cars are a euphamism for pure sex; like this one

Manic Moran · 14-06-2009 02:02PM

Every now and then, usually once every two years or so, I'll pass by a black Trans-Am which has been kitted out (PI) with a KITT sensor light...

Guaranteed to turn heads.

NTM

Snowie · 14-06-2009 02:19PM

I like the sound of an agusta F4 there soooooooooo sexy... I want one.. I also enjoy the scream of a honda vtec on a cold Septembers night, But what noise really gets me is the scream of an F1 car send shiviers down my sound.
But Ferrari's sound stunning

14-06-2009 03:21PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

Utterly filthy.

Snowie · 14-06-2009 03:33PM

Moonbaby wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE

Utterly filthy.

I may get banned for this but

that gave me a semi

Dragan · 14-06-2009 08:28PM

To quote family guy "You look like rappers, but your white, so that's just the right amount of danger."

In my experience, even women who claim to like dangerous men really want "implied danger but actually safe men". The car implies speed, success, some risk etc...but also dedication and effort.

So it's the safe cop out. The guy has stuff, and the girl likes that. It's about that simple i think.

With regards to the actual sound test, go back far enough and any woman here would be looking for a man who could scream and shout the loudest as part of his mating rituals, I keep saying this but i will again, we are not that removed from our previous evolutionary stage.

14-06-2009 08:32PM

I'm supposed to be turned on by that awful throat-clearing sound like moonbaby posted?

My OH has a nice car and all, but there's nothing appealing about tearing down the road at 200kph, sorry ;s

Silverfish · 14-06-2009 08:40PM

Dragan wrote: »

To quote family guy "You look like rappers, but your white, so that's just the right amount of danger."

In my experience, even women who claim to like dangerous men really want "implied danger but actually safe men". The car implies speed, success, some risk etc...but also dedication and effort.

So it's the safe cop out. The guy has stuff, and the girl likes that. It's about that simple i think.

With regards to the actual sound test, go back far enough and any woman here would be looking for a man who could scream and shout the loudest as part of his mating rituals, I keep saying this but i will again, we are not that removed from our previous evolutionary stage.

Eh.... Sometimes I look at a car and really really like it, it doesn't mean I want the guy driving it, it means I want the car.

Women drive cars too you know.

Dragan · 14-06-2009 08:50PM

Silverfish wrote: »

Eh.... Sometimes I look at a car and really really like it, it doesn't mean I want the guy driving it, it means I want the car.

Women drive cars too you know.

Indeed. I don't think i implied anywhere that the only reason a woman can like a car is because she would have an interest in the man driving it.

I thought the thread was about women who like men because of cars?

Why do some women like lads that drive sexy looking cars?

GirlInterrupted · 14-06-2009 09:04PM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

David Moxon subjected 40 men and women to the sounds of a Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari, then measured the amount of testosterone in their saliva. He found everyone had higher levels of the stuff —

I hate to point out what should be really obvious, but everything sounds better in Italian.:p

cormie wrote: »

The Lamborghini is different though, I don't know why.

Again, Italian.:)

Wibbs · 14-06-2009 09:52PM

bluewolf wrote: »

My OH has a nice car and all, but there's nothing appealing about tearing down the road at 200kph, sorry ;s

Oh sometimes there is. There really is. On autobahns and the like of course....

I know it sounds daft, but every time I hear a car revving hard(even a mundane car) I'm impressed. I hear the symphony of explosions contained to give power. Even the Micra that gets the 90 year old to shops is an amazing thing. But when you hear an engine taken to the degree the Italians and the Japanese and the Germans do, it's just that feeling multiplied.

I know a few women with the same madness too.

Now if someone can get the sound of a Merlin engine into a car, I'd live in the damn thing.:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2nlGN6aS8g

That doesn't do it justice. I saw and heard a Spitfire going back to the UK after an airshow going down a valley in the Wicklow mountains at 16. It's a sound you feel. I wanted to shout "hey get back here I wanna put wheels on that thing".

Dragan wrote:

I keep saying this but i will again, we are not that removed from our previous evolutionary stage.

+1000 and as GirlInterrupted said the Italians seem to get that more than most when it comes to mechanics(and other stuff in fairness to the buggers).

valery · 14-06-2009 09:59PM

got to be honest here, before i settled down with him indoors i had some fun in boyfriends cars, but it was never what was under the bonnet of the car,
but what he kept under his bonny bonnet. ha ha ha :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

GirlInterrupted · 14-06-2009 10:05PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Italians seem to get that more than most when it comes to mechanics(and other stuff in fairness to the buggers).

Fact.

stiff kitten · 14-06-2009 10:09PM

would you ride this???????????

Wibbs · 14-06-2009 10:11PM

GirlInterrupted wrote: »

Fact.

*off topic* What I love about Italian culture is that they can employ equal aplomb for both the tackiest thing and the most high brow thing without missing a gear. Sometimes both at the same time. Helluva trick *off topic*

*on topic* they have made some truly amazing works of art with cars in noise and sight.

Yea and I know it's old;):P

Wibbs · 14-06-2009 10:13PM

stiff kitten wrote: »

would you ride this???????????

Ride it? I'd marry it. I'd even allow it to have an affair with the Hummer down the road.

stiff kitten · 14-06-2009 10:20PM

Wibbs wrote: »

Ride it? I'd marry it. I'd even allow it to have an affair with the Hummer down the road.

i know...shes pretty saxsy alright...

she wouldn't date hummers...this girl has standards!

:D:D

Manic Moran · 14-06-2009 10:52PM

stiff kitten wrote: »

would you ride this???????????

Only if some of my rifles fit in it.

Now, if you want practical, the Lambo four-door might be worth a look...

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NTM

Mrmoe · 14-06-2009 11:39PM

I think this is pure pornography, alpha romeo has to be one of the most beautiful things I have ever set my eyes on full stop, seeing some of these cars beauty would literally make me weep. There is no better sound than one of these masterpieces driving through a tunnel. It's what makes life worth living. You can not put a price on that or explain it to people, it is something you feel at the very depths of your soul.

Snowie · 15-06-2009 01:01AM

Manic Moran wrote: »

Only if some of my rifles fit in it.

Now, if you want practical, the Lambo four-door might be worth a look...

NTM

that car dont look right to me

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