What Your Car Brand Says About Your Vote - How Cars Became the New Political Identity

Have you ever judged someone by the car they drive?
You’re not alone — and you're probably not wrong.
From Teslas to F-150s, our cars say more about us than we think.
Politics, gender, class, even race — it's all wrapped in what we drive around in. This is how cars became the ultimate identity flex. And yes, your driveway might just reveal your vote.

00:00 – You Are What You Drive
00:40 – Car Choices = Tribal Choices
01:05 – Subaru vs. Ford vs. Prius
01:46 – The Tesla Identity Crisis
02:50 – Jaguar’s Electric Reinvention
03:29 – Your Neighborhood, Your Vote
04:19 – UK’s Mondeo Man Moment
05:01 – The Gendered Car
06:11 – Race, Cars & Perception
06:52 – Driving While Black
07:05 – Why Cars Make Us Weird
08:07 – Marketing the Culture War
08:26 – Patriotism on Wheels
08:53 – The Political Roots of Driving
10:11 – How America Chose Cars Over Transit
11:08 – Bike Lanes and Urban Elites
12:46 – Is Your Car a Political Billboard?
12:58 – What Does Your Car Say?

Mimi Sheller
Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sheller is an internationally recognized scholar and academic leader who conducts research on mobilities, an interdisciplinary field that studies the movement of people, objects, and information, as well as the complex new mobilities (and immobilities) that are afforded by changing technologies and infrastructures.

Mike Schwede
Entrepreneur & Tesla owner

Matthew Paterson
Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute
Deputy Director, JUST Centre
University of Manchester

Report by Joseph Wright

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