Car industry: Car luxury and horsepower ostentation no longer fit in this era

Anyone who wants to understand how luxury came to Castrop-Rauxel could recently hear it around a parking lot in this Ruhr region town. Roaring engines, dangerously squealing brakes, the whole package. Or on Good Friday in Herten-Süd, a day known in the scene as "Car Friday." Incidentally, Herten is also a Ruhrpott town that stands for a lot, but certainly not for excessive luxury. But as in Castrop and Herten, it's now the case almost everywhere in the country: Luxury usually descends upon the towns on Saturday evenings, creeping up slowly, howling, whining, and then speeding off. Hundreds of so-called posers in high-powered, highly luxurious sports cars on the Dortmunder Wall, car races on the Mittlerer Ring in Munich, Berlin's Ku'damm, and on the Cologne Ring.