People Prefer Angry-Faced Cars

fatalfury writes "Researchers from the University of Vienna asked 20 males and 20 females to rank vehicles based on their appearance. The list of traits included arrogant, afraid, agreeable, disgusted, extroverted, sad, and others. Cars with 'meaner' traits (such as BMW) ranked higher, whereas cars with 'nicer' traits (such as Toyota's Prius) ranked lower. With billions spent on developing new products in the automobile industry, this could spur a trend in meaner-looking cars and perhaps explain why sales of the Prius and other green cars are slow to take off with average consumers."

Comments

Re:Yes you're right

[aproposofwhat]

Let me see - you ask 40 Austrians whether they'd rather be seen in:

a) a Nazi Staff Car, or
b) Hirohito's rickshaw.

Guess which they choose?

No shit, Sherlock!

as a driver...

[AdmiralWeirdbeard]

i'd merely like to point out that you can fuck RIGHT OFF GODDAMN PEDESTRIAN