The Pop-Cultural Power of the Automobile

So commonplace is the car in contemporary culture that to look upon it as anything more than a means of travelling from A to B requires an extra special enthusiasm. Yet ever since it first came into being, dreamt by up the ambitious German engineer Karl Benz in 1885, the automobile has represented far more than simply a mode of transport; it captures the hopes, fears and aspirations of the generation it is created by, giant roaring engines standing in for hunger and…