04/09/2008 10:56. LONDON — In what is sure to be the least surprising study result ever, a British insurance company found that women are sexually aroused by the engine sounds of Maserati, Lamborghini and Ferrari sports cars. On the other hand, the sound of the Volkswagen Polo's engine has the opposite effect.

Why the Hiscox insurance company wanted to know this is another story. However, the company did carry out research, playing a 20-minute tape of each car being revved to a group of male and female volunteers.

The researchers then collected the saliva of the volunteers and tested it for... // Edmunds.com/Inside Line