Guys who drive fuel-efficient cars are hot, and apparently I'm not the only one who thinks so.
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Your fuel efficiency is so hot
by Judy Berman
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/06/05/fuel_efficiency/index.html

Put away your books, kids, it's time for a pop quiz. When you picture the kind of car a high school boy might call a "real pussy wagon," what do you see?

A. A vintage Mustang convertible
B. A giant, hulking SUV
C. A tricked-out van with tinted windows and shag carpeting
D. A sensible, hybrid sedan that gets upward of 40 miles per gallon

Well, regardless of what your little brother thinks, ladies love that hot, hot gas mileage. A new study conducted by General Motors has found that 88 percent of women would rather meet a guy with a fuel-efficient vehicle than a dude with a sports car.

Besides being great news for Larry David, the report confirms something women have known all along -- namely, that men care a whole hell of a lot more about expensive, gas-guzzling cars that accelerate from zero to 60 in half a nanosecond than their potential mates ever could. (Reminds you a little bit of the whole "Does size matter debate," doesn't it?) I know I'm not the only girl out there who sees a guy in a Hummer and wonders what he's compensating for. Conventional wisdom holds that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his mother, so why should Mother Earth be any exception?
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I'd love to see a study on the average penis size of a male hulking SUV driver. I'd bet $50 it's smaller than average.

In the comments for the article linked above, several guys wrote in that no woman in her right mind would choose a guy driving a Prius over a guy driving a Ferrari.

Well first of all, I have NEVER seen a man driving an expensive sports car (Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus, and the like) who wasn't at LEAST 65 years old. I check out the drivers of those cars every single time I see one, just to try to prove my theory wrong, but so far, not once. They are solely driven by old guys sporting a spare tire, as far as I can tell.

Same with any guy driving a Corvette. They seem to all be old men who always wanted a Corvette, but couldn't afford it until they were ancient enough to look ridiculous driving one.

So given the choice between a slightly geeky young Prius driver and a fattish old guy squashed into a tiny sports car that he spent WAY too much money on, I'll take the geeky guy with good MPG, thanks very much. Any day.

I like Aston Martins and old classic Jaguars, but rarely see anyone driving one.

Full disclosure...my husband drives a Honda Civic Hybrid. Sorry ladies, he's taken.