<p>Explain your answer.</p>
<p>They should drive american.</p>
<p>its not really a big deal, that’s what all the kids at school drive</p>
<p>No one at my school has any of these, afaik…</p>
<p>Rich parents, elitism, jelously. The usual emotions.</p>
<p>I wish they would drive a normal car and give me the difference so I wouldn’t have to be concerned about financial aid.</p>
<p>I mean, they’re lucky. I live in an upper class town (even though I am middle class, making me a “poor kid”) and a lot of my friends drive cars like that. </p>
<p>I don’t view them as better, obviously. But it doesn’t make them elitist or a bad person. They were fortunate enough to be given a nice car. Most of us here would jump at the opportunity as well, so as long as they aren’t rude/bratty about it, there’s really no reason to be hold it against them (though jealously is definitely understandable).</p>
<p>At my high school, the kids who drive those cars are *******s…</p>
<p>Who cares. I think the real question is what do you think of high schools who ***** and moan about people who have nicer things than them</p>
<p>alwaysleah - In my experience, those kids are elitist, from elitist backgrounds. You said they were fortunate enough to be given a nice car, yes, but they don’t need those classy european cars. They are given them as a status symbol, we are talking about 17 year olds here, it’s a complete status symbol which originates in eltism.</p>
<p>Nicety is in the eye of the beholder, and for some people when it comes to automobiles, its extent is utility.</p>
<p>Most adults don’t even have one of those where I’m from, in a Los Angeles suburb. Never seen a teenager with one.</p>
<p>But if I did, I wouldn’t think anything different than I would of another person. ALL teenagers who have decent cars are relatively rich.</p>
<p>where i live i usually see trucks. gotta love the south yall</p>
<p>I just got my dad’s Audi A4 and a lot of people see the Audi symbol and go, “oh wow”. Then I tell them that its a 2001, we didnt even buy it till 2006, and its bluebook value is $2000. I definitely appreciate and love my car but I hate the initial looks that I get from people who think i’m some rich kid.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering why there is such a negative stigma from some people towards teenagers who drive really nice cars. I realize many people think that it’s “superficial” while tens of thousands of people are suffering in this economy, but wouldn’t an impoverished African (and yes I realize how trite this analogy is, but nonetheless it’s worth mentioning) think that even the low-middle class American standard of living is superficial?</p>
<p>Driving a nice car doesn’t mean you’re elitist, in my opinion.</p>
<p>A kid at my school had a Porsche that he parked in the center of the parking lot every day, so that you couldn’t miss it. The other guys always talked about how fun it would be to trash it.</p>
<p>I just don’t understand the schadenfreude people feel when trashing an expensive car.</p>
<p>It just shows that you’re immature.</p>
<p>Showing off.
Because really? Why drive such a pretty car to HIGH SCHOOL?
I’d drive a cool BMW Bug. Or Scion</p>
<p>I drive a Mercedes to school… a 22 year old one at that. Still get a few comments from teachers, friends and the occasional passerby. </p>
<p>There’s another kid who drives his Mercedes convertible to school and nobody calls him an elitist or make snide comments. Basically they just say, “Damn he has a nice car” and move on but that obviously isn’t the case at all schools.</p>
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<p>For me, in all cases, its just a goddamn car. Whether they have the time of their lives in their car or wreck their transporting apparatus is up to them. (But I’d laugh if they do. trololl.)</p>
<p>Then again – I guess I am used to seeing many of those cars in my college.</p>