Here.

This guy is a hero. Not someone to be chastised. This is the future of mobility.

Some serious headline flame baiting here...

The classes broken down:

Light weight (1800-2400 lbs). 300 and over WHP, 6-speed manual. Coupe. As reliable as a Toyota but as handsome as a German.

Yes. Crime is actually a big part of quite a few economies. Strippers, Drug dealers have families, expenses, mortgages in some cases and cars...they’re people.

Does anyone know where that photo was taken?

There  is no “pissing away”. It goes to someone. Those people make money, they spend or invest it in turn.

A philosophical question - Is it tragic that these did that much damage or is it tragic that these vehicles cost so much in the first place?

It’s called not wanting to get your car stolen or damaged by some idiot.

Buy something that you can quickly flip in Hawaii for more money. They love their trucks there and offroaders, something with a lot of capacity for surfboards might be worth looking into as well.

Tokyo is known worldwide...enough so that you can just say “Tokyo” - you don’t have to idiot-proof it by calling it “Japan’s Biggest City”....

I don’t understand why this article specifies that the man is a “White Man”