More than a third of Canadians report driving a sexy car makes them feel more attractive

TORONTO, May 23, 2012 /CNW/ – Step aside chocolates and oysters, a new survey reveals the car may be our new aphrodisiac.  More than one in three Canadians (36 percent), including almost 40 percent of women and close to 50 percent of young Canadians under 35 report driving a sexy car makes them feel more attractive.

Findings from the new study were released today, and came from The CarCourting Report, commissioned by autoTRADER.ca and conducted among Angus Reid Forum panel members across Canada.

“Canadians really didn’t hold back in this study, showing us that although choosing a car might seem like a wholly rational decision, emotion and even social implications are a major influence on Canadian car buyers,” said Ian MacDonald, Director of Marketing, Trader Corporation.  “We discovered that people not only judge others on the type of car they drive, they also internalize their choices – cars appear to be a key part of how we identify ourselves personally.”

When it comes to finding the true love of our lives in automobiles, sadly, this country falls short.  More than 7 in 10 Canadians polled (71 percent) said they were not in love with their current ride.  But by no means are we a country of quitters! When it comes to courting cars, the majority of Canadians (58 percent) report being polygamists – admitting they would test drive many different makes and models before settling on the car they like best.  AutoTRADER.ca’s new autoLYZER app may help them curb those wild ways, by narrowing down their selection process, so they can ultimately unite with their true automobile love.

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This parking gone very wrong will end up with two cars heading to the local junkyard!

Unveiled at the General Motors Highways and Horizons pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York, the Pontiac ‘Ghost Car’ was buit on the chassis of a 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six. In collaboration with Rohm & Haas, a chemical company that had recently developed Plexiglass, the concept for a transparent car was conceived and it was the first one ever built in America.

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He calls himself a “junk man” and a renegade of sorts in the industry that he said he fought his way into and now leads with the largest supply of the scrapped inner-workings of cars in one place.

Meier grew up in Whittier with short stints in Fontana and Ontario, the son of a truck driver who would sometimes pick up loads from the massive food distribution warehouse in Riverside that would eventually become home to The Recycler Core. The nearly 300,000-square-foot facility, which stretches 1,000 feet in length, fits 7 to 8million automotive parts. The aisles, packed with matching parts, resemble scenes in the original “Star Wars” film from 1977 when the heroes find themselves in peril inside an intergalactic trash compacter.

“I wanted to do something I believed in. I wanted to recycle,” he said.

He doesn’t drink. He doesn’t smoke. One of his only vices may be buying too much of the commodities he sells just in case a customer might come along and need a hefty supply of manifolds, a part for a Model A or Ferrari or any other core part for a model of car, foreign or domestic, he said. And he has a fondness for the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” of the Disney universe for its warning that despite the character’s ability to wield great magic, it can all end fairly swiftly if not controlled.

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What happens if you married a car and a motorcycle?

THIS!!

Francois Knorreck started working on this unique motorcycle-car, 10 years ago. It took him 10 years and $20,000 to complete this masterpiece he calls the Snaefell. He used a Laverda motorcycle and put together the car using whatever parts he got his hands on.

This guy has some serious talent and what a great idea, instead of junking this:

He turned it into this:

Love these!

Even on minimum wage you can afford this little baby!

This is taken from somewhere in Poland!

This story illustrates the dumb wrong way to acquire junk cars! Four people were arrested Friday for allegedly attempting to steal a junk car to sell for scrap, and one of the four was also charged in a previous similar case, police said.

The detective said the four were at someone else’s property on S. Jefferson Avenue on Friday and were loading the vehicle onto a trailer when a relative of the owner saw them and called police.

A report by Officer Ryan Moore says the suspects had tried to load the old vehicle onto a trailer, but left when they saw the owner’s relative.

Detective Gragg said the “come-along” pulling equipment the suspects were using had broken and they left to get more equipment.