"Horsepower sets how fast you hit the wall. Torque sets the size of the hole."
"... the motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism." - Sinclair Lewis
Your car is an eminently replaceable mass production inanimate object that doesn't give a fuck about you.
"...Twas hard the woeful words to frame; To break the ties that bound us; But harder still to bear the shame; Of foreign chains around us..." - Robert Dwyer Joyce