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Originally Posted by AnalogMan

There are a lot of people out there who care more about what other people think of their cars than how they themselves feel about them. The person in the video is one of them.

I think it's sad when it's more important to someone what complete strangers think when they see them driving by than what they think of themselves and their own car. Seems to me to be a deep-seated insecurity. If someone is trying to boost the impression other people might have of them based on their ride, they have bigger problems than their car.

I've never cared in the least what anyone thinks of my car other than myself (and my wife, of course). 'Young person's car', 'old person's car', 'economy car', are all meaningless labels.

Buy what you like, drive what you like to drive, and the hell with what anyone else might possibly think.

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

Years ago I saw a quote attributed to Eddie Murphy, "I bought a new red Porsche sports car so women will see me driving it and want to f&ck me." That is the world's second worst reason to buy a car. A car is NOT an avatar for a person. To the extent that it projects an image of the owner it is an unflattering one.

A car is less, and more than this. For a true "car or motorcycle person" the machine communicates with the driver/rider on a level that defies explanation. There is a symbiotic relationship in which each participant is tuned into the moods and needs of the other. I know it's probably TMI but think of it as sex with a soulmate, Out of the 30 or so motorcycles I owned, probably 3, maybe 4 fit that description. I've owned, I guess, 12 cars. The BRZ is probably the second of those that I've gotten that close to.

It's not an "age thing," it's a mechanical "soul" thing - one either has one or one does not.

There is nothing wrong with people that buy cars to impress other people. Not everybody has to want the car for the reasons you like and there is zero difference between them wanting a car to impress others and you wanting it for a symbiotic relations ship (that is extreme by the way).


If what you like about the car is that other people like it then it is what you like and that is what you should drive.