MEN who love flashy cars really are just compensating for having tiddly todgers, research reveals.
Fellas showed more interest in having a sporty motor in psychological tests when they thought they came up short in the camshaft department.
Researcher, Professor Daniel Richardson, said his study was the first to show that there was truth in what he called the cultural phenomenon of “genital inadequacy”.
He added: “It would explain the existence of the phallic car trope in everyday jokes, advertisements and academic discourse.”
In tests, he convinced half of 200 men aged 18 to 74 that the average penis size was 7.09in.
It was a lie intended to make them feel inadequate — the average length is actually 5.17in.
The rest were told the average length was 4.7in — making them feel confident about their equipment.
They were shown images of luxury items such as champagne, a Rolex and a high-end sports car and asked to say how much they wanted them.
Those feeling under-endowed ranked fast motors as more desirable, while the others showed less interest.
Prof Richardson, from University College London, said: “We increased our male participants’ desire for sports cars when we made them feel they had a relatively small penis.”
His paper, Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Pyschological Link, reported the effect was notably more prevalent in older men.
