Interesting study

@tablejockey ...*G* Actually, I’m in your corner on F1 drives. But here in NC, if it’s not NASCAR, dirt bikes, or 4WD anything (preferably with a fresh splash of mud on the flanks)....there must be something wrong with you.....!
I’ve been a fan of rally cars, GPrix, and the like forever.
Used to enjoy going to the Lions drags back in my L.B. ’wasted youth’ era, just to enjoy the ’heat blast’ of the AA fuelers whip by....*reverie*sigh*
Used to ride bikes too, but these days my skin comes off too easily...and the blood thinners make me look like I’m going to die....

*blood dripping down the arm, hitting the floor* ARE YOU OK?!

"Oh...it’s nothing...just dumping some excess...."
(5 minutes later, I’ve clotted, minor elbow scrape....one gets used to it...)

I just want Block’s car in ’street guise’ and only ’slightly tame’....;)

Ever heard of a ’Q ship’?

Channel Jan & Dean’s "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"....

There was an old ratty VW ’bug’ that looked like it started life as a factory second and had gone downhill afterwards....Literally had gone down a hill.
It wasn’t real obvious that it had a 911S engine of the era in it.

The driver in the next lane would laugh...until the tire smoke cleared from his eyes that had become like white platters with a dot in the middle...;)

As a person who has spent his life studying psychology and sociology, with the specialty, Sociology of Mental Illness, I am drawn to this phrase from the article about that study:  “These are people who often see themselves as superior and are keen to display this to others.”   BUT!  They want to see see themselves as superior... and keen to display.  Guess what?  They do not see themselves as superior.  They are trying to be noticed as superior, but really know they are not what they want to be.  To get noticed, they must continually prove to themselves that their cars are something special, so that you notice and think the driver must therefore be special.  As the study points out, many people who driver great cars simply like quality.  These people are not driven by a desire to prove anything, so they drive normally. Too many tweakettes fall into the same category, by obsessing on proving to themselves how special they are, when they could be listening to and enjoying great music.

Addendum:  Due to the characteristics of a very special car I loved, I got rid of it in order to quit looking like a weirdo, and to keep my license.  It has nearly 400 horsepower in a 2700 pound car, but no power below 6000 rpm. It runs its best except in its power band from 7200 to its 9200 rpm ignition cutoff.  The car made me drive like a moron to have any fun.  Luckily, turbos solve the low end problem that car has, without sacrificing light weight.  Don't be a moron.  Buy a really good audio system, listen, and be content with your life..

The majority of my cars are British, but I do own one BMW sports car.  ;-)

Hopefully the British stuff offsets the German and I am only a bit of a jerk.....

(Just another internet filler piece - ho hum)

On a clear day you can see General Motors”

of course required reading is Halberstam, Ford vs Datsun

if course Ford just lost $1.7 B in an everything is perfect record full employment economy.. how do they manage that ?

where are all the Tesla short seller pundits, now?

Geoff are you going to answer the question? And excellent Neil Young song quote BTW buried in that question...