Don't be so sure. I ask what kind of car a guy drives for the same reason guys ask guys...cause I like cars! And because cars are an extension of a person's identity; you can tell a lot about a person by the car they drive and how they care for it.
I disagree with that position entirely. So your point is that you can quantify someone totally as merely the sum of their posession(s)? I used to operate a '69 Mercury Cougar. The outside looked like hell, and the interior needed a lot of work, but as an Engineer I modified the bloody thing behind the dash and under the hood to where it was a real terror on the road -or off of it! What was on the outside was totally irrelevant -it is what is INSIDE that truly counts!
For the record, it blew the doors off of factroy-new vehicles without even trying (not that I ever enguaged in any illegal racing or similar stunts, mind), and even stomping on the accellerator doing 65 it would still chirp the tyres and sink you deep into the seat with the g-forces.
What is on the exterior is worthless for the most part, and I can tell you many stories of overpriced Gutless Wonders that I have come across as time has passed.
Categorizing a person by their car makes as much sense as diagnosing a disease by their runny nose.