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Their vehicle.
Think of, for example, the obnoxious shitbag in his emotional support truck, or the BMW prick, and all the behaviors attributed thereto.
There’s a big open outdoor shopping mall area near me that for some reason they decided to allow people to drive in the interior streets instead of putting the garages on the edges of the area so people can park and just walk around. On Friday and Saturday evenings, idiots with pimped up cars and loud exhausts love to just drive the interior streets over and over to get maximum attention from shoppers walking around. It’s loud, obnoxious, and makes the place stink of car exhaust; not to mention a waste of gas.
what if your pride and joy is base level hatchback with a manual transmission?
or are you just talking about people who see autos as status symbols of their wealth and 'success' despite the the fact their car is objectively a moneypit POS, like a Jeep.
Whoa, I ran a used 5-speed for about a decade and totally douched out on how much I was not paying for my car.
i have a couple of friends who are stupidly addicted to their falling apart 20 year old cars, but they seem to take perverse pride in dropping $5K for a new transmission or other major repair every other year, and going on about how much they are saving buy not buying a new car...
i have one buddy with a 2004 VW and he's spend like 20K on it in the past 4-5 years and like goes on about how new cars are all debt traps and he'll never have a loan again... and i'm over here looking at a '23 Integra that's like 25K... and won't need any major repairs for 15+ years...
Oh, the engine on mine was going out and I sold it to buy something else. It has to go when that happens.
My philosophy is that I have to be able to fix it myself.
I could understand it if it’s a project they work on, eg restoring it from a junkyard. For some people, their car is not just a utility they use to get around; similar to how much of my life revolves around a computer I built.
But yeah, that’s not many people. Quite a few bought theirs out of a yard.
I saw one of my old friends was proposed to in front of her now fiance's Dodge truck. He was wearing camo. She said yes!. Jesus Christ talk about lacking a personality.
his personality is his multiple DUI violations.
It's wild to me how like people who DUI are proud of it, it's so fucking bizarre. and they always drive objectively unreliable shitty cars that they are very proud of.