My brother drag races is Challenger/SRT all over the country. He had pretty much the entire car engine block rebuilt by a specialist in Delaware just to get a few pounds off of the load for faster driving speeds. So I get people who like cars.
What I don't get are people who think that their maleness must equate with cars. I think some wires are crossed and you're confusing something there. Because it ain't the Y chromosome that's behind the car thing. A lot of women love the speed too, for that matter.
The essence of an 1860s man was probably pretty rank, given that it predated Old Spice.
A lot of South Asians are addicted to the trappings of "new money": status symbols, brands, identities as symbols of wealth and stature. It's actually a bit of a brain freeze moment for me the first time I was out there.