Gareth Parker weighs in on the question of ads for fast cars, posing it as a question of personal responsibility.

“The problem is this. Every time someone else decides for us what is “safe”, our personal responsibility is diminished. Every time someone else makes the decision, it becomes someone else’s fault when something goes wrong.

I crashed my car. Car ads are to blame. Individuals are no longer culpable, and that is just wrong.”

Gareth may not have noticed but, when motorists who think they are racecar drivers crash their cars, they usually crash them into somebody else.
If these cars were used only for motor racing, the ads for them would serve as fine candidates for the Darwin awards, helping to remove stupid genes from the pool. Unfortunately, they usually take others with them.