Society grants celebrities an unreasonable boost in status due to their position. If someone exhibits outstanding athletic ability or moving acting skills or even just achieving fame for being outrageous, their words and actions suddenly carry the weight of their stardom. By extension, it seems, their possessions encapsulate that aura. Sure, expensive homes owned by celebrities will be expensive and expensive cars, too, but what about common cars?
There was a spoof on this very subject on an episode of "Seinfeld" back in the mid ‘90s when George was conned into buying a car he wasn’t interested in because it supposedly belonged to the actor Jon Voight. It turned out the LeBaron convertible George bought actually belonged to some guy named John Voight, the dentist, but it illustrates how celebrity, when attached to a car, can make an uninteresting product desirable.
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