I don't understand first-world, commodity fetishism, especially car fetishism. I supposed books have been written to attempt to explain it.
There's never going to be an explanation for why anyone likes, collects, obsesses over, or enjoys any product, hobby, thing, place, etc. - it's all personal. People like what they like, and most people pursue the things they like because that's what makes them enjoy living life. For some, it might be collecting coins or comic books. For some, it might be photography, or specifically a certain type of photography. Or collecting lenses. Or maybe they like watches and collect more than they need. Or shoes. And so on. Liking cars, and wanting new ones, is something that 'car' people will have - whether you have no money and buy beaters to fix them up yourself in the yard, or have more money and like to go after a shiny new car every few years. For me, it's about driving. A car for me is not an appliance, so whether it stops, goes, and starts is not my driving motivation to own one...it's about HOW it drives, how it handles, how it looks, how it fits, how well it corners, how it stops. I may drive on weekends on a curvy back road, I take my cars to tracks to run them at high speed around courses, and every moment I'm in a car, I'm smiling, enjoying myself - whether it's just cruising slow with the windows down watching scenery pass by, or driving it flat out, late braking, spooling up the turbo as I come out of a turn and power through to the outside edge and hit 3-digit speeds down the backstretch.
Some people like to cook, some like to knit, some like to hike, some to photograph, some to read books, and some like to drive. I happen to like many of those things (not a knitter), so those are the things I buy and pursue.
I drive a 17-year-old Honda CRV that came with a pre-dented hood. It starts when i turn the key, stops when i step on the gas, turns when i move the steering wheel. It holds a lot of stuff. It gets 25+ miles/gallon. It's starting to rust, so i'll have to get something else soon.
Sounds good! Nothing wrong with a 17-year-old CRV. Though if it were mine, I'd have taken more care of it, polished it, kept it sealed and avoided rust, and kept it running AND looking good - because I like cars. One of my high-school side projects with a friend of mine who's father had a hydraulics shop was to buy $500 beaters, fix them up ourselves with minimal investment, and sell them for a small profit. We fixed up a 65.5 Mustang, 68 Ford Ranchero, and 74 Datsun B210. Total investment never exceeded $1,000...and some of those cars were older than your CRV at the time!
I fail to see how this OP is relevant in this forum.
Bring on the hate.
No hate needed. The relevance (to me) was that these are photographs taken with an A6000 and FE70-200mm lens...and something I enjoyed sharing with other fellow e-mount shooters IF they happened to also be car people. That's why I added the qualifier: 'Car People:' - so that non-car people could just avoid the thread! I could have taken the shots with my phone or my DSLR, but then I'd have to post them in a different forum, or they'd be completely off-topic. I decided to push the limits a bit and post car photos here because they were taken with a camera & lens that belong in this forum.
