i actually read this story in the nytimes yesterday

you know, the one about your CAR being gay (or i guess straight). how stupid. well it's beyond stupid. you know when a paper such as the times (we are NOT talking national enquirer here) publish such drek, it's time to indeed pick up the weekly world news (oh and by the way YEARS AND YEARS ago i took a quiz from the weekly world news. it was entitled, 'how to tell if your co-worker is an alien'. i answered YES to ALL of the questions on the quiz EXCEPT the one that said is your co-worker always calling in sick? so it turns out i AM an alien)

'NYT' Headline of the Week: 'Is Your Car Gay?'

By E&P Staff Published: April 12, 2007 10:15 AM ET
NEW YORK As if we didn't have enough to worry about, The New York Times today in a Styles articles made everyone aware that our sexual orientation is being judged, or decided, on the type of car we drive. Who knew that piloting a Mazda Miata convertible suggests that you are gay? Two men in a Mini Cooper --"a gay cliche." Or that lesbians give themselves away by driving Subaru Outback station wagons?It's all true, as reporter Alex Williams makes clear. While asserting that, of course, no car is inherently "straight or gay," Williams notes (and feeds) the perception that cars can "be statements" about sexual orientation.............

and the stupid-ass article itself...

Gay by Design, or a Lifestyle Choice?

By ALEX WILLIAMS
Published: April 12, 2007
RON GEREN, an actor in Los Angeles, commutes to auditions and jobs throughout Southern California in a sleek black Mazda MX-5 Miata convertible. But for a recent date with a woman, he rented a Cadillac Escalade because he was so used to friends saying his Miata is “gay.”
“Guys say, ‘Hey, that’s cute,’ ” Mr. Geren, 40, said, adding that the comments come from gay as well as straight men. “You have to fend off that perception.”
A few years ago, Meghan Daum, an op-ed contributor to The Los Angeles Times, wrote about a promising first date with a man that never led to a second one because, she later learned, the guy saw that she drove a Subaru Outback station wagon and concluded she must be a lesbian. ............