no surprises there, I live near a suburb with a lot of cash business and the only asset it seems to go into is aftermarket car parts for these brands. the aest

no surprises there, I live near a suburb with a lot of cash business and the only asset it seems to go into is aftermarket car parts for these brands. the aesthetics attract young men who don't have a clear path to hegemon social status, where those brands were associated with immigrants in the 80s and 90s, and they have been picked up by the current wave. fuzzy dice and plastic covered seats have been replaced with Khalistan and AK-47 decals, but the behavior on the roads is mostly the same, maybe with a few cultural variations. the cars are products designed to exploit young men's poor impulse control. I don't really worry about the power of cars at all, teslas are farcially fast, and I'm a motorcyclist, but if there were something to be regulated, banned, or punitively taxed on environmental grounds, I would say it's subwoofers and aftermarket exhausts as they exist only to disrupt the way of life of others. they export poverty from one place to another and degrade every place they go. a lot of racism would disappear overnight if we stopped equipping young men with ever cheaper and more technically powerful ways of harassing people. of the opportunities our societies could provide, the opportunity to not turn your host societies against you seems like the most cost effective. the car models exploit an underlying issue that is much older, and there are reaonsable policies that could mitigate most of the current issues with them. bass frequencies of subwoofers and exhausts have specific properties that could be solved without a lot of pain or effort imo. it would encourage people to drive like they've been in a car before.