I think its time for some car personality psychology!
According to research in the uk:
Black cars represented an aggressive personality or someone who's a rebel.
Silver cars characterized someone who is cool, calm and slightly aloof.
Green cars were often owned by people with hysterical tendencies.
Yellow cars represented someone idealistic.
Blue cars were chosen by the more introspective, reflective and cautious driver.
And, gray cars represented people who were calm and dedicated to their work.
Oh and heres another little gem:
However, Peter Marsh and Peter Collett, psychologists at Oxford University and authors of the book Driving Passion: The Psychology of the Car, argued in an article published in Psychology Today magazine that cars are linked to sex for another reason - namely, that driving itself is a turn-on.
"The passion most clearly linked with the automobile... is purely sexual," they wrote. "As a human body accelerates, nerves and muscles all over the body react. Signals are sent through the spinal cord, which in turn increases muscle tone, particularly in areas such as the neck, that are most affected by acceleration forces. This vastly increases the body's state of arousal.
"The central nervous system translates this arousal into a number of emotions. For some people it is pure fear. Others perceive this basic emotional state as intensely pleasurable. The fear and the state of alertness are still there, but they have been mastered. Acceleration is under one's control, and the result is a flush of emotion that some liken to orgasm."
Of course, modern traffic conditions mean that driving is now more akin to a long evening with a maiden aunt than to a night of sexual passion. But evolutionary psychologists argue, none the less, that one of the most profound remaining differences between the sexes is that while women like to build nests, men possess a restless desire for freedom. Men might make women feel insecure, but women make men feel trapped, hence the iconic status of the motor car in male lives and why they will rewind car chase scenes from films until the fan belt eventually snaps. Men want fast cars because, subconsciously, they are all getaway drivers planning an escape from the scene of their latest crime - be it sexual, relational or professional. But the kind of car with which a driver chooses to escape from mundane reality into his vivid fantasy life is also revealing.
For example, the 4x4 driver would secretly like to be piloting a tank, and so he has the next best thing. It is interesting that 4x4s are traditionally marketed as allowing the freedom to climb over rough terrain, which gives motorists a sense of mastery and derring-do. Psychologically, the 4x4 driver doesn't want to drive past you; he wants to go over you: "Don't get in my way" is the covert message conveyed by these quasi-military vehicles.
While 4x4 man wants to be the only person on the horizon, the sports car owner likes company, as long as it is admiring him from behind. The sports car driver doesn't do friendship, which is why he drives a car too small to offer anyone - other than a single, stranded woman - a lift home.
The convertible driver, on the other hand, doesn't want his car to be admired so much as himself; the top is down not to let the sun in, but to let the exhibitionist out. This is why you see so many chatteringly frozen convertible owners struggling to open their hoods in the midst of a gale.
This look-but-don't-touch approach is not that of the driver whose car is bespattered with stickers explaining that there is a child on board, he supports the RNLI and you are following him to Jesus, via Whipsnade Zoo. This is someone who is falling over himself to be friendly and tell you something about himself, so that if you really wanted one, you now have an opening gambit with which to strike up a conversation. This person needs friends so badly that he doesn't mind being stalked home by someone trying to read a gripping car sticker.
Now sticker man might not agree with his therapist's interpretation, but the fact is that people do make judgments from your car about which lane you are occupying in the great journey of life - the fast, middle or slow lane, or even the hard shoulder.
The conundrum is how often motorists find themselves cruising in the wrong lane, blithely unaware of the impression they are creating. The Aston Martin owner wants to impress you with how sophisticated and James Bond-like he is, but often merely ends up resembling a lumbering Roger Moore rather than the lithe young Sean Connery he is trying to emulate. He would have been better advised to stop trying so hard. If a driver wants his car to change people's minds about him - that is, if he wants them to revise their opinions upwards, not downwards - he must select wisely.
A new car should signal your recent success, but often ends up revealing your insecurity; you think your bucking of the classic company car choice shows how quirky you are, but you come over as just weird.
It is quite clearly and overwhelmingly obvious from this 'evidence' that all Black 4 x 4 Landy drivers are CLEARLY twats. ;)