[throwaway22032]

FWIW I agree with this wholeheartedly.

I own a car in London and there are many cases in which it's objectively superior for me to use it purely based on time savings. Generally any journey that's more than about 3-4 miles from the absolute centre of town.

It's also more comfortable, private, has AC, I don't need to wear headphones to listen to music, can carry more, etc.

It's just fundamentally better. If the UK had an equivalent of LA I'd move there in a heartbeat.

The only people I hear who are rabidly anti-car are those who ideologically prefer not to use one. They're generally not people who tried it and found it lacking.