It’s not that I don’t appreciate the sentiment behind your comment. I just don’t see things quite the same way you do.

People working hard and making six-figures aren’t necessarily the ones I’m talking about, although a lot of them do tend to vote against even their own economic interests. Still, this is one of my reasons for directing my disdain toward the cars and not the owners specifically.

I’d rather look at the 911, but I’d rather be seen in the Ford.

No worries. I am an arrogant dick sometimes. This might be one of those times, and I’m ok with that.

Probably has something to do with the last 40 years or so of all economic gains going to a tiny fraction of the population while everyone else’s wages stagnated or dropped and expenses such as housing, education and healthcare significantly outpaced inflation. And the deregulation that turned our banking and finance…

I hope the light pole is OK.

No, thanks. I’d rather be insufferable to people like you. I consider it a badge of honor.

Well, then you and I essentially agree.

Having owned and driven nothing but modified cars since 1995, I can’t say I agree with that take at all.

I’m not taking it out on people. It’s the system, created by the wealthy class and implemented by those politicians you mentioned, that draws my ire. The “supercars” are merely a symbol of that system.

Not really. One side is flaunting its class and status. The other is concealing it.

Sometimes people do shitty things even though they’re not entirely shitty people.

I don’t think wanting to return to Keynesian economics is necessarily “jackknifing into collectivism.”

Nice reactionary take, but actually what I would propose instead would be adjusting tax, banking and finance laws back to something more like what they were in 1960s America. We’d still have rich people and they’d still be able to own “supercars,” but we’d also have a strong middle class again.

That’s simply not accurate. Hell, a huge part of my view on “supercars” stems from the fact that they’re often inferior products. No supercar was ever as reliable as a Honda Accord, except maybe the NSX, and supercar snobs always shat all over that car because it was “just a Honda.” In other words, the badge did not…

Actually, I think most of us should aspire to be more successful and improve our lives. And my view of status symbols is a reflection on a system engineered to prevent most of us from doing exactly that.

Not just a Les Paul. A Custom Shop R7, I’m afraid. Most people would never know the difference between it and an Epi, though.

I don’t really care whether they “love cars” or not. I’m not making an argument about whether someone’s choice of cars makes them an “enthusiast” or not, and I don’t think anyone is any cooler because they’re a “car person.”

This thing is cooler than a real F40. Way cooler.

I actually agree with most of what is said in this article, but there is one big area in which I disagree: I have come to completely despise “supercars” because of what they represent. When I see a supercar, I don’t see impressive engineering or stunning design, or even just something cool or pretty. What I see is a…