Are you one of those people who name their vehicle, or decide it has a gender and even talk to it? A study by researchers at Colorado State University that was published in the journal "Personality and Individual Differences" and later discussed in BMW Roundel magazine, found some interesting things about drivers.

Researcher Jacob Benfield gave drivers personality tests which measured the likelihood of aggressive driving behavior or road rage among a test group of drivers. Later the subjects were asked to give their vehicles personalities and then rate the aggressiveness of the driver/car combinations.

The results of the study indicated that drivers who thought of their vehicles as male or female scored higher on “verbal aggression, physical aggression, use of vehicle, driving anger and pejorative labeling/verbally aggressive thinking."

It gets better. When the driver's personality was different than the perceived personality of the vehicle, as reported by the driver, it was the perceived vehicle personality that ruled. The report also stated that drivers who aren't friendly, but whose vehicles are perceived as friendly, were more likely to be friendly drivers.

Now, if I could just stop the voices from telling me to have ol’ Rhonda the Ram to cut that d@m# driver off in the other lane. After all, he deserves it. And hey, it must be called a Ram for a reason!

So what do you call your truck?