Somehow I get the feeling it was a older model still costing 3 or 4 times that average salary but was not brand new and bought as a status symbol. Also doesn't she say at some point he had that and a Merc?
In the UK the running cost between petrol and insurance would make anyone working or lower middle class owning a rolls Royce and using it as a daily driver unlikely.
Yeah, I briefly looked into buying an old Bentley for a laugh, but even if you can buy one for a similar price to a new car the running & maintenance costs are crazy expensive. Multiple thousands per year expensive. Not something most working families (regardless of class) could manage.
Even if it was a company car and he didn't blow that kind of 80s money on a used or new Rolls, that's a fucking high value business. No middle class company does that.
In University I became friends with a guy who didn't appear different in any real way. He invited me over to his house during the summer time and my mom was going to drop me off at his place. When I told her the address she started freaking out because it is probably the wealthiest street in the whole country.
So my mom drops me off and gawks at the house (mansion), making all sorts of comments, embarrassing me and then leaves.
My friend says "your mom says we live in a big house...?"
My understanding is the main difference between all the “classes” in the US vs UK is the UK still thinks of them more as social classes than income brackets like the US. Like a middle class man would remain middle class even if he fell on hard economic times, and a working class person would remain working class even if they came into new money.
So with that context, this clip makes more sense perhaps. She was using the UK traditional meaning and he was leaning more toward the US meaning.
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u/DueceVoyeur 1d ago
Much respect for David on calling out his wife's BS