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The World's Sexiest Greenest Car Show is back; bigger, better and sexier than ever... so says the home page of The Co-Operated Insurance Sexy Green Car Show. Like last year, the Sexy Green Car Show promises to show off some of the best green car concepts to a captive British audience. Chief among these vehicles will be the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel. Initially shown at the 2008 Geneva Motor Show, the Exige 270E is capable of running on gasoline, ethanol or methanol. A sophisticated computer system can detect what type of fuel the vehicle has been fed and can adjust necessary engine parameters to use that fuel. In the process, Lotus was able to tune the engine to extract a bit more power, 270 horses to be exact.

In addition to the car itself, Lotus is reportedly working on a new method of creating methanol which involves the extraction of waste carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A chemical reaction with hydrogen produces both methanol and water. If a clean source for the production of methanol were indeed possible, flex-fuel vehicles could add it to their stable of power sources.


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Well, Evecars certainly be accused of thinking green with their latest Top Ten list, which they think marks the "Ten sexiest cars to turn men's heads." Following a poll of "a cross-section of men," the website thinks that a woman driving a Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster (pictured) would be the sexiest. Of the entire batch of ten cars (see it after the jump), only the Fiat 500 could qualify as a green car, and Evecars doesn't specify if it's the old or new version of the 500 (I'm guessing it's the old one).

So, what (apparently) do men care about when it comes to women and cars and sex? It's not the CO₂ emissions level. In a statement (also available after the jump, Evecars editor Alex Jenner-Fust said that, "The men we polled love the idea of a woman at the wheel of a high performance car, but only if she knows how to handle it. That's why the idea of a Land Rover Defender driven by the Queen is far more appealing than a modern Mercedes convertible being driven, or crashed, by the likes of Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears." Sigh.

We've been through this discussion before, and I guess men need to reshape our thoughts in the same way women should if anyone is going to attract a mate in a car when the ocean levels rise. And here I thought going green was so sexy? When, exactly is that going to happen again?

Related:

• UK scientist: Young women can fight global warming by realizing Ferraris don't make a guy sexy
• It's the first date. Do you want him to show up in a Prius or a Hummer?
• And now it's the men's turn: what does her car say about her?

[Source: Evecars]

How can young women fight global warming? According to a chief scientist for the British government, Professor Sir David King, they can help out by no longer thinking guys that drive Ferraris are sexy. I will let Sir King speak for himself:

I was asked at a lecture by a young woman about what she could do and I told her to stop admiring young men in Ferraris. ... What I was saying is that you have got to admire people who are conserving energy and not those willfully using it. ... As soon as you come to the individual, however, they will buy a Ferrari, not because it is cheap to run or has low carbon dioxide emissions, but because young women think it is sexy to see men driving Ferraris. That is the area where a culture change is needed.

So, what do you think of Sir King's comments?

Editor's UPDATE: We've been doing some thinking (and reading your comments) and agree that there are plenty of cars that are both sexy and green. How about the Tesla Roadster as the premiere example? I mean, take a look at this beauty.

Then, take these amazing electric conversions, an all-electric Mustang and Shelby Cobra 427. Tell me they're not zero-emission babe magnets.


Or, how about the BMW Hydrogen 7? There are certainly going to be some people who strenuously disagree either with the idea that this car is sexy or that it's in any way green, but I'm sure it can't hurt and look and decide for yourself, right?

Lastly, what about the Aptera as a vision of the way green cars will bring a new kind of sexy back?

Also, these two posts certainly bear on this conversation:

• It's the first date. Do you want him to show up in a Prius or a Hummer?
• And now it's the men's turn: what does her car say about her?

[Source: Telegraph]