People are desperately reaching out...

I'm seeing it as a collective cry for help. People are afraid and insecure, and they certainly don't want to appear that way to their fellow humans, so overcompensation in the other direction is the result.

Not necessarily.

You ever listen to rap music?

A staccato beat with foul-mouthed, sing-song l y rics.

I even saw a middle-aged women last year sitting in a relatively decent mid-sized car listening to that crud.

I certainly see lots of younger people tuning into that and enjoying it the way a baby enjoys a mother's soothing lullaby before going to sleep.

I work with a wide cross section of people in the automotive field, and I tend to notice trends, particularly in the area of automotive styling. People tend to project their personality onto their vehicle. It sort of becomes their avatar on the road.

Lately any accessory that can be bolted onto a Jeep Wrangler that makes it appear bigger and meaner has been selling like hotcakes. Off road mods I get. Lifts, bigger tires make a Jeep more capable off road. But one came in the other day and it looked like something out of a Mad Max movie. It was dull black, it had a steel visor and the whole nose was sheet metal and he had put red halos in the once round and now evil squinting headlights to make it look as menacing as possible.

Mazda went through a brief period with their cars when they made them to look like they were grinning and it almost bankrupted them. They weren't well received at all. No one wanted a happy smiling car.

Any car or truck that is fast, loud and can look intimidating is getting snapped up in record numbers. Challengers. Chargers. The new $100,000 Ram TRX Hellcat truck. We can't keep them in stock.

Driving styles are also reflecting attitudes and egos. These jacked up jeeps and trucks are rarely driven slowly and sedately. They're usually tailgating, speeding, whipping in and out of traffic and just begging for a wreck.

I'm seeing it as a collective cry for help. People are afraid and insecure, and they certainly don't want to appear that way to their fellow humans, so overcompensation in the other direction is the result.



Why else take a humble jeep like this,

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And spend a lot of money to turn it into something like this?

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Really good post O.P. It's like children's wants are choosing car styles. In the last 5 years or so in the UK, I've noticed also more car manufacturers, especially French ones, are selling cars in red, white & black (war, terror & death) the Nazi colour scheme. More importantly, it's young people who are choosing them.

And guess who financed and marketed that garbage to corrupt first blacks and then the rest of the youth?

Red and black...yes! Interesting insight.

White? Terror, or shows fewest scratches and looks better in snow?

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Red and black...yes! Interesting insight.

White? Terror, or shows fewest scratches and looks better in snow?

Red cars get the most speeding tickets and in the most accidents. It's an aggressive color.

Red cars get the most speeding tickets and in the most accidents. It's an aggressive color.

I love a man who loves his truck

I love a man who loves his truck

Until he stops paying attention to you, then you'd talk your white-trash social media about what a loser he is.


What a white-trash comment.