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Fast cars don't impress women

Women are more attracted to a guy in a Prius than a Porsche.

FORGET the Porsche — a new survey shows that women are far more attracted to guys who drive something more practical, like a Prius.

A Harris poll commissioned by dating site AnastasiaDate found that a majority of women associate fancy cars with negative character traits: 56 per cent view men who drive exotic or fast cars as being show-offs or arrogant, and 17 per cent perceive them as being insecure.

Almost half of women say that a guy’s car reflects his economic status, the New York Post reports. Forty-six per cent say that it reflects a guy’s image of himself. Eleven per cent believe that the car reflects the guy’s feelings about having a family.

Only about one-fifth of women say that they have found a man more attractive after seeing the type of car that he drives. And 37 per cent of women think men who buy expensive cars are compensating for a lack of “something.”

Men have their own opinions about what a woman’s ride says about her. Nearly 40 per cent of men think a woman in a fast or exotic car is a show off. Six per cent see those women as emotional.