And to think, VW/Audi is at the forefront of marketing its vehicles to LGBT audiences...
In the latest round of assigning sexuality to vehicles, the Audi RS4 has emerged as the "straightest" car around in the "Alternative Car of the Year" poll, conducted by Wheels24, a South African online automotive publication. Funny, we know quite a few gay guys who drive Audis.
Volkswagen made the cut as well, with its Jetta filling in the fourth spot in the poll. Toyota also racked up two placements in the "straight" column, with its Fortuner coming in second place and the Lexus IS250 rounding out the poll in fifth. Dodge's macho ads for the Caliber have also apparently paid off -- the "not cute" Neon replacement came in third.
To the likely disappointment of many Autoblog readers who have dubbed the MINI Cooper the gayest car in the comments section of our site, Wheels24 readers actually think the Peugeot 207 deserves the title instead, with the BMW 3-series coupe serving as the runner up. The Jaguar XK came in third, with the Honda Civic hatch and Alfa Romeo 159 coming in fourth and fifth, respectively.
Most individuals -- gay or straight -- can appreciate a nice rear end, so Wheels24 included that in its poll as well. Cars with the sexiest rear end include as follows:
1. Alfa Brera
2. BMW Z4 Coupe
3. Opel Astra GTC
4. Renault Clio
5. Nissan Tiida
[Source: Wheels24]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Z @ Dec 13th 2006 9:37AM
You guys haven't learned anything have you? This isn't auto news, don't even go there.
$0.02 @ Dec 13th 2006 9:45AM
Labels on our cars, labels for our skin, labels for sexual behavior. labels, labels, labels.
epilonious @ Dec 13th 2006 9:48AM
Really, the S4 strikes me as a power-top: ready to nail anything, male or female... gay or straight... animal, vegetable, mineral...
Steve @ Dec 13th 2006 10:09AM
BMW has always been almost the exclusive vehicle for the Gay population. We love them !
MCS05 @ Dec 13th 2006 10:13AM
I have never understood the benefit of taking the time to make this list then publish it. Silly.
BOB @ Dec 13th 2006 10:23AM
I nominate the Mercedes AMG C43!!! My friend just got one, and he is the biggest fruitcake I've seen, since Grandma died and had to stop making them.
Kowell @ Dec 13th 2006 10:52AM
It's funny that the Dodge Caliber is 3rd most Straight Car given that it appealed to women a lot if you look at the sales numbers....
JOHN PIERRE @ Dec 13th 2006 10:54AM
Mercedes CLS = Haute Couture
polpot @ Dec 13th 2006 11:17AM
If BMW's are for gays, then mercedes are for retards, and audi's for hermafrodites, what a load of bull!
You just buy the car you like, period.
Mike @ Dec 13th 2006 11:18AM
Useless article... glance at the author name... SURE ENOUGH.
so predictable
Ty @ Dec 13th 2006 11:33AM
You guys come to autoblog for automotive news?
You have to be kidding! Come for news and topics related to cars and the automotive industry and would not dare use this website as a means of obtaining my automotive news. It's a blogging site for Christ's sake! If you guys are gonna get all pissy when an article comes along that you dont wanna read, dont read it! But don't knock the site for not being the industries #1 source for automotive news because it never made the claim to be.
roGer @ Dec 13th 2006 11:46AM
You see the title, think it's BS or "non-auto" news. Why bother reading, much less leaving a comment? Negativity is something we all have enough of - why try breeding more of it? Autoblog was clearly just trying to have some fun here.
John B @ Dec 13th 2006 11:57AM
#10 polpot:
What's a "hermafrodite"? Does that have anything to do with a hair style amongst Africans?
jnik @ Dec 13th 2006 12:22PM
I guess South Africans have nothing better to do since Apartheid ended.
James @ Dec 13th 2006 12:25PM
That's funny because where I'm from... the Jetta is considered a pretty "gay" car... in fact, VW's in general. No wonder I like them so much...
You know what I think is a pretty straight car? An F-250. Big truck, big wheels, big grille for overcompensation.
dan @ Dec 13th 2006 12:29PM
for the record. Having HIV does not mean you're gay. Even if it is true that 50% of south africans are hiv+, it certainly doesn't have anything to do with homosexuality.
also, couldn't we compare who buys what cars based on, age, race, region, gender... or anything.
This article is only interesting because everybody is so obsessed about labeling, or being labeled gay.
buy the car you want... this is as lame as a survey from teen magazine.
JarryHames @ Dec 13th 2006 1:08PM
This is stupid! People buy whatever they want and can afford. There isn't a specific car for a specific sexual orientation. Marketing to a specific group over the other may help with the appeal.
WTF does Mini and South Africa's HIV rate have to do with each other?
graff @ Dec 13th 2006 1:13PM
Yeah, why is it that the 3 series is such a ....gay car? Whenever I drive through West Hollywood, there are more 325's and 330's than Hondas. And of course at least half of those 3's are ragtops. I guess some things are universal, from West Hollywood to.....South Africa.
The M3 seems to escape the gaystigma though.
And the Jetta is a sorority chick car. Period.
Mike M. @ Dec 13th 2006 1:42PM
#7 Nothing like having our token idiot Blooooood with his typical ill-informed-dumb-assed comments!!
There are plenty of retards here, but you top them all!! Ha Ha!
Carl @ Dec 13th 2006 2:12PM
50,000 Toyota Camrys are sold to homosexuals every year--more homosexuals than any other car on sale.
So, Camry buyers are more likely to be homosexual than any other car save the Accord.