"Why do you drive a v8 in the city"

This is the question that I saw from a Dane who arrived back in the US. Um, because as Americans we can, and we'll drive a V12 as a matter of act, it's because we can no one needs a V12, or a V8, technically, a V6 is plenty powerful, but why a V8, it's because we can and we do, it's to flex our muscle that happens to be our wallet, it's because we have to gloat and show people what we got because we have to overcompensate for smaller things, in a sense, why, because we are too stupid to realize that none of this ever matters in the end, so we spend frivlous dollars that some can afford and some can't...