Moment at 0:00 in Jay Leno Used Porsche to Explain Why the Middle Class Is Gone by Modern Hemingway.
Jay Leno has spent decades talking about cars as a measure of American life, and when he points to Porsche to explain what happened to the middle class, it lands differently coming from a guy with one of the biggest collections in the country. In this commentary I break down what Jay said, why the Porsche example works, and where I think it goes further than he took it. There was a time when a working professional could save up, walk into a dealer, and drive out in a 911. Today it’s allocation lists, dealer markups, and buyer histories, and the people who built the culture around these cars are being priced out of it. This isn’t a hit piece on Porsche. I love these cars. But loving a brand means being honest about what it’s become, and about what that says about who gets to participate.
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