A team of behavioral scientists at Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Brazil, has found via survey results that people view men who drive luxurious cars as having a higher mating value and other positive attributes. In their study, reported in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, the group conducted two surveys involving people driving expensive cars.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886923004129?via%3Dihub
Don’t really have the time to go through this right now
But is it basically “this person looks like they’re well off, they might provide a more comfortable life”? Or was the "expensive car’ part important