driving is partially an activity for fun, yes. my car isn't just a point A to point B tool. when I go A to B, I like to be delighted. And my new car does do that! Zoom zoom :)

This is on top of other reasonable, practical considerations. My choice of car was the best imo in its price range and class overall. Great interior, stylish and sporty, Japanese car. longterm reliability, I can keep my mechanic and do routine stuff myself, I live super near a gas station.

No EV blew me away so why suffer when I can have my car delight me and be a solid price stretched over a bunch of years at 0%? I don't think it's villainous to buy gas in 2025 and it's p out of touch to act like it is (in America)

Villainous? Probably not. However, making others pay the cost of your pleasure is incredibly rude. You aren't gathering much sympathy for your cause specifically because of the selfishness of it.

"Making others pay" is hyperbole here. It's a normal car. I'm not doing some fringe thing. I'm doing a normal American activity.

Same reasoning is used by a lot of German car owners. ”I like my combustion engine too much!”

If you act like that's not a real thing, you're probably just an out of touch HNer who doesn't like cars (very uncool)