"Project image of this, project image of that"- what a bunch of isht. Nobody gives a horse's platoot about who drives what. When I see an exotic car/average car/beater, chances are very high I don't know who's in it, and I ain't gonna ever know either so whatever I might think of the owner means nothing. Most of the time- if it occurs to me to form an opinion of someone based on their car at all- it's pity, knowing they're working their butt off at some boring job to support that expensive vehicle.
Stupid people spending so much time and money trying to impress strangers they'll never meet...
And we're going to "need" more wars regardless of oil- can't have all those men and equipment sitting around doing nothing.