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Conspicuous Conservation, the ostentatious display of objects that mark a person as eco-friendly, has become popular over the recent decade, with example of wealthy people making a point of being seen driving a Prius, putting solar panes in silly places and even wearing shoes "suggesting" you worked on the BP oil spill cleanup.
On the opposite side of the coin we are starting to see some rather deplorable examples of Conspicuous Pollution, the most flagrant of which is called "Rollin Coal".
These kids, (they are almost always 20 something rural guys) will spend anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 modifying their pickups for the sole purpose of belching huge clouds of black exhaust; adding smoke stacks and smoke switches (which either trick the engine into thinking it needs more fuel, or dump diesel fuel directly into the exhaust manifold).
This is not just a handful of guys. Elizabeth Kulze posted an article with links to “an entire subculture” on Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram. “It’s just fun,” one coal roller says. “Just driving and blowing smoke and having a good time.”
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Monday August 25 2014, @07:13PM
The nice thing about all the rich assholes buying new BMWs: they always have to have the latest shiny bling bling, so they get rid of their cars pretty quickly. Which means that you can get a used one pretty cheap. And these cars are actually really well made, so you can keep them running for a long time.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 25 2014, @07:55PM
Unfortunately BMWs have very high resale values. So cheap used ones are few and far between.
Cheaper than new, definitely but the prices are inflated by brand loyalty.