It's a notion as old as the chariot: Like it or not, what you drive sends a message to the world.
In today's information age, you can now find out what your car says about you on Internet joke sites:
Volvo 740 Wagon = "I'm very frightened of my wife"
or get your "Car-O-Scope" from NPR "CarTalk" gurus Tom and Ray Magliozzi
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"I've spent my entire adult life amazed by the way in which people judge others based on the auto they drive," says Michael Marsden, a pop culture expert and Eastern Kentucky University professor who has taught a course on "The Automobile in American Society" for years. (He drives a 1989 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.) "The auto is perceived as an extension of ourselves.
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