Research Shocker: Women Prefer Bentleys To Fords

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Mar 24th 2009 at 9:02PM

Last year I saw a study that the sound of a luxury car engine aroused women and now there is a study that shows that the car makes the man when it comes to looks too. The Telegraph writes up a study that showed women pictures of the same man sitting in two cars, a silver Bentley Continental and a battered Ford Fiesta. Surprise, surprise the women, who were aged between 21 to 40, chose the man in the Bentley.

The research from Dr, Michael Dunn, of the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, has been published in the latest edition of the British Journal of Psychology. His study also shows that men are more impressed by how a woman looks than what she drives. Dr. Dunn says that women still look for wealth and status because they are seeking a man in "better condition to rear healthy offspring." He says that this basic human trait is not likely to change even as women acquire more independence and wealth. Dr. Dunn, who drives an old Ford himself, will now do research to find out if luxury items help make up for "the attractiveness-diminishing effects of age."

Are women more shallow than men? Dr. Dunn's final quote for the Telegraph: "Let's face it - there's evidence to support it."

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shieldsbrown Mar 24th 2009 10:39PM

Women more shallow than men? Oh, please. Show men pics of the same woman, in one pic she has big boobs, in the other she has small ones.

MidnightPlatinum Mar 25th 2009 2:32AM

Ha, ha, ha. Shieldsbrown wins.
-Seriously, both sexes have in mainstream culture gotten more shallow. But, also in music for example other values like artistic success are flaunted and encouraged, so you can get sex appeal for being a great artist as well. Either way, face it, we all want someone who is a little above-it-all. It's more than primal, it's a little spiritual. Bentleys make you all tingly inside. Let us just never forget that the most important thing to look for is that, deep down inside that person is a truly good person.
-But, regarding the test alone: if it is the same man shown in both cars, then isn't the woman just saying she prefers the nicer car? You didn't say anything like 'in the Ford picture the guy is smiling and holding the puppy, but in the Bentley he is frowning and smoking a stogey. Even then, the women picked the Bentley man.' There is literally no reason why the women would have picked the man in the Fiesta based on this study.
-If I were a woman, my ideal man would be one who was both a good man and drove a Bentley. As I heard a hot stuck up lady once say when interviewed by a match company, "We all just want someone we're attracted to." And you know hot shallow women... love em or hate em, they're usually right.
*MidnightPlatinum from A Flawless Red Diamond
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Sal the Chef Mar 25th 2009 11:34AM

Luxury cars are certainly a good way to draw women! That doesn't mean that once you get the girl she'll do anything just because you have a nice car. You still have to prove yourself.
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