Testosterone plus rat equals ugly night

THE myth: testosterone is the hormone responsible for male aggression, and leads to violence, drug-taking, a preference for lowered suspension, mag wheels and doof-doof music played too loud at traffic lights. The reality: new research reveals testosterone is actually the hormone of choice for those seeking elevated social status. Scientists from Zurich and London have observed that it increases fair behaviour in humans - because fairness is less likely to be rejected by the group and so more likely to enhance status. This is good news, we suppose - although it does make the world a blander place. Only in rats do higher testosterone levels lead to aggression. The average rat, not being a particularly deep thinker, sees aggression as the way to raise its status. Rats, we are sure readers will agree, have appalling dress sense and are notorious two-pot screamers - and testosterone just makes them worse. One positive emerges from this research: science may inadvertently have found the explanation for what goes on in The Rocks every Saturday night.

BLING BRINGS EXTRA WEIGHT

Next time you decide to give your car some extra bling, make sure you check how much that new set of mag wheels is adding to its weight.

Cars, Camera, Action

The most memorable movie stars are often on wheels. Here are some of the best.

Fords Will Shine At Show Day

IT won't all be about the glossy paintwork, gleaming mag wheels and out-there audio systems when the second annual All Ford Show and Shine Day is held at Doyalson tomorrow.

Trio Grab The Wheel For Parra's Wild Ride

IF PARRAMATTA were a car, Krisnan Inu, Jarryd Hayne and Eric Grothe would be the flashy mag wheels. The engine would be solid but only occasionally spectacular, built on the dependable Nathans, captain Cayless and the tireless Hindmarsh. Tim Smith would be the slightly erratic P-plater, causing the odd bingle through untempered enthusiasm.

Nathan Proch, 42, Hot Wheels Designer

Nathan Proch, 42, Hot Wheels designer

Eat My Cardigan

T HE old Falcon, all mag wheels, primer, exhaust note and killer stereo, sidled up at the lights.

Man Still Missing

POLICE have urged the community to remain vigilant in helping find missing Edgeworth man Paul Wayne Bolch. Mr Bolch, 33, went missing from his Nightingale Crescent home on Monday, April 3. He left in a distinctive light blue Valiant Charger that has mag wheels and racing stripes. Partner J

The Sweetest Words: I'll Help You, Mate

HE took a while to answer his doorbell. `Yes?' he said. `I'm sorry, Sir,' I said. `I think I've got the wrong man. You see, I've got a flat and I'm changing the wheel. It's a big car, it's got mag wheels, and I'm in the gutter and I've jacked it right up, and I got the wheel off okay, but I ca

Why Fuel Price Rises Have Led To Heartburn

YOU love your lime-green Holden Torana - four on the floor, bucket seats(you draw the line at mag wheels) and four cylinders (so it's not a gas-guzzler). With the recent fuss about petrol price increases, let alone the effect on everyone's health, you're worried about the car's dependence

Residents Are Sick Of Selfish Petrol Heads

SIR: I am one of the many unfortunate residents of Campbell Parade, North Bondi, who would like to know if the large groups of guys who religiously"hang out" (loiter) at the north end of the Promenade every Friday, Saturday and especially Sunday nights, comparing mag wheels, sound syst

A Chance To Seize Imported Bargains

Statues from Thailand, spray guns from Canada, ribbons from England, even a kitchen sink from Germany, are to be auctioned by the Australian Customs Service tomorrow and Thursday. There are leather coats from Korea and mag wheels from Italy, but if none of these items takes your fancy ther

Think Again - Is Your Car Really Safe?

Do you have mag wheels on your standard sedan, loose suitcases in the back of the station wagon, a dent in the radiator grille or a tow bar that you don't remove when not in use? Then your car is one of 40 per cent of all cars on NSW roads in a"dangerous" condition. The pub