[75w]

Is this motivated by environmentalism or is this about class?

[detritus]

Class... is a tricky definition here in the UK. For instance, the richest person I will ever know drives a crappy wee Japanese hatchback, whilst SUVs are often high-monthly fee status symbols for people who could spend their money 'better' elsewise. shrug

[johndunne]

I'm in my 40's and the number of my friends who've done exactly that. We have the friends who spend their disposable on status and the friends who spend their disposable on Holidays (I'm vaca-class).

[Holocene]

I think you actually mean - you have friends who derive status by spending their disposal income on cars, and friends who derive status by spending their disposable income on exotic holidays!

(I'm posting this from an exotic holiday in the Indian Ocean, my cousin lives in Essex and has a hire-purchase SUV.)

[mft_]

Old money vs. new money, etc.

[walthamstow]

Class is not easy to nail down in the UK. The high-income white people in my area of London ride bicycles

[krona]

This is the Guardian so it's definitely about resentment of one form or another.

[75w]

My meaning is the people who seem so angry about this tend to be ‘well educated’ middle class people jealous of working class people having a flashy lifestyle.