[RipSawyer]

In and of itself, what kind of car someone drives does not tell me that much, I have known very wealthy people who knock around in old junkers, even the vehicles I have seen listed for John Kerry are not that new or impressive, and I have known people who drive around in new, expensive vehicles who owe more money than everything they own in the world is worth. Sorry, but that just doesn't cut it for me.

[CyberCowboy777]

I will not feel sorry for a guy at $18.00 an hour driving a new F-150 pulling a boat.

Americans complain if they have to drive a 6 year old car, and when they buy a new rig they are not buying the cheap Korean cars.

The fact that a wealthy person is driving a beater does not say anything about the standard of living in the US, but rather the financial smarts of wealthy people.