Cars Make Up and Brake Up Relationships: Conversations Behind the Wheel are Steering our Love Lives

Cars Make Up and Brake Up Relationships: Conversations Behind the Wheel are Steering our Love Lives PR Newswire LONDON, September 26, 2012 LONDON, September 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 1.9 million motorists have been proposed to behind the wheel One in five people offer relationship advice in the car It's been 45 years since Herbie the love bug hit the big screens and today research from Allianz Your Cover Insurance's Secret Lives of Cars Report, reveals the role cars are still playing in steering the nation's love lives. Love is most definitely in the alpine freshened air with 1.9million UK motorists being proposed to behind the wheel. Despite this romanticism, it's not all about happy endings on the nation's highways with 2.3million motorists having the brakes put on their relationships and being dumped in the car. The report also discovered that motorists are more likely to talk about their love lives and difficult topics in the car with 45% of those questioned revealing that the lack of eye contact makes these conversations easier to approach. Conversations most likely to cause couple tension in the car include holidays (58%), bills (27%) and living arrangements (26%). Not only do motorists like to discuss their own love lives in cars but men and women are keen to talk about other relationship topics too. The research found that 3.