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chicks dig "green cars" rather than sports cars
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Posted by: TorchRedSVT

What a joke:

http://green.yahoo.com/blog/ecogeek/...the-girls.html

EcoGeeks get all the girls

By Hank Green Posted Wed May 28, 2008 1:59am PDT

Just in case you needed another reason to care about the environment: It turns out girls dig guys who dig environmental technology.
According to a study conducted by GM as part of this year's Challenge X competition:

Nearly 9 in 10 women (88 percent) say they'd rather chat up someone who owns the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car.

Eighty percent of American car buyers would find someone with the latest fuel-efficient car more interesting to talk to at a party than someone with the latest sports car.

More than 4 out of 10 (45 percent) 18- to 43-year-olds say it's a fashion faux pas nowadays to have a car that's not green or environmentally friendly.

Little did we know we've been fashionable all along! (OK, maybe not me - I'm still tooling around in my old Sentra.) No one seems to have told 80 percent of America that it's actually greener to keep driving your current car than to invest in buying a new one.
Nonetheless, this study is good news. And when I buy my first new car (never!), I'll be sure to let everyone know how green it is.
GM's Challenge X is a yearly competition among college students to make GM vehicles more efficient. This year's competition had students from 17 universities "re-engineering" Chevy's Equinox to make it more efficient and reduce its greenhouse impact, while retaining consumer appeal.
Solutions the students put together included using alternative propulsion systems like fuel cells and hybrid technologies, and using alternative fuels like biodiesel and ethanol.
This year's winners are from Mississippi State. They increased the fuel economy of the Equinox by almost 40 percent with a hybrid-electric biodiesel engine.

Yeah..ummm I don't think so

Posted by: Xerxeese

ok..right there in the first line.. would rather TALK to guys with "green machines"

Now ask them in which vehicle would they want a ride.

Posted by: chachee52

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Originally Posted by Xerxeese

ok..right there in the first line.. would rather TALK to guys with "green machines"

Now ask them in which vehicle would they want a ride.

Was thinking the same thing. Also it kind of reads like the poll was taken at a "green machine" convention where all the people there want to talk about "green cars". Now take the same poll at the Father's Day show and see what happens!!

Posted by: langod

Funny that.

Eco-nerd girls like talking to eco-nerd guys.
Just like Mustang Girls like talking to Mustang Guys...

Let me get out my obvious stick......

Posted by: Xerxeese

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Originally Posted by langod

Funny that.

Eco-nerd girls like talking to eco-nerd guys.
Just like Mustang Girls like talking to Mustang Guys...

Let me get out my obvious stick......

No playing with your stick !

Posted by: EastCoast5.0

Bogus

This is my college driveway lol.

Posted by: Mustang5L5

Let's analyze

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Nearly 9 in 10 women (88 percent) say they'd rather chat up someone who owns the latest fuel-efficient car versus the latest sports car.

Those women are either. a.) Virgins...or b.) Lesbians...and not the cool kind.

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Eighty percent of American car buyers would find someone with the latest fuel-efficient car more interesting to talk to at a party than someone with the latest sports car.

Are you kidding me? How can a survey done at an environmental convention pass judgement on what 80% of americans do. If a guy shows up at the party in a 911 convertible, you would be sure as hell i want to know how fast that thing goes vs how mang MPG the escape hybrid in the lot gets.

Here's more proof that this survey was completed by a bunch of weirdos

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More than 4 out of 10 (45 percent) 18- to 43-year-olds say it's a fashion faux pas nowadays to have a car that's not green or environmentally friendly.

NORMAL AMERICANS do not talk like this. "Fashing fauz pas nowadays"? If you talk like that, you weren't getting dates on friday nights and prob drive a gay little prius anyway. I dunno about you, but the captain of my football team drove a Mustang in HS. I'd rather hang out with him any night over a Jesus-sandal wearing prius pusher.

Posted by: langod

My Mom just got a Hybrid Camry. I drove it when I was down in MD last month. Pretty cool car and surprisingly quick actually for something that gets 40mpg.

However, will I drop the Cobra for something like that? Of course not.
Would I consider it for my daily driver someday? Absolutely.

But which one is going to get me "thumbs up" from guys and smiles from pretty girls? Well..... I doubt it would be the Camry.

Posted by: bullitt5177

I've got a green sports car!!

I win!!

Posted by: Xerxeese

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Originally Posted by bullitt5177

I've got a green sports car!!

I win!!

and somehow you dont have any chicks

Posted by: Orange SS

That's just crazy.. The only reason the girls want to talk to these guys, is morbid curiosity. I'm sure they wouldn't be caught dead in one of those cars.

Posted by: kissajew86

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Originally Posted by Mustang5L5

. If a guy shows up at the party in a 911 convertible, you would be sure as hell i want to know how fast that thing goes vs how mang MPG the escape hybrid in the lot gets.

tiz true i can attest!