[starfish923]

It's pretty simple.
A beautiful car involves money and status. It even involves fame. Obviously, from the studies, it involves power too. Money, fame, power and status, the four "scarce resources" for which many humans vie.

Men vie for it differently than women, of course, despite what women's (G)lib says.

Women vie for it by showing others what MAN they can "get." Genitalia-akimbo, who's got the money to pay for the biggest boobs, cutest butt, most perfect face, teeth, nose, etc.
Sad that movie "stars" are considered worth "getting." They are all about make believe. Who cares?!

Men can get sex from women anytime, anywhere with anyone they want. Promiscuity is as ordinary as Bier. Sex and women are no big deal. Cars are. Believe me, with their cars, the men are showing off just as much for OTHER men. It IS about status.

So...this is all academic, innit?
I don't see American men as that different....except for ONE thing: American men are THE BEST.

[Mr. Mojo]

Believe me, with their cars, the men are showing off just as much for OTHER men. It IS about status.

But often it's just about pure driving pleasure.

[Michael81Dus]

You´re so right. The skills, the body, your character, all that doesn´t matter. It´s all about which passport you have, right? Man, this is so ... simple-minded.

[Zhangliqun]

"Men can get sex from women anytime, anywhere with anyone they want."

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SOME men can, I suppose. But not most.