Want2Besupermum - you come across as someone who has chips in your brains.
Of course there is the odd state school where many parents have flash cars and many private school parents who do not have flash cars.
This does not reflect the obvious fact that between the 7% of the population who can afford to send their kids to private school and the 93% who do not (even though that will include a % who could afford private ed but chooses not to) there will a massive discrepancy on the % of each group able to buy expensive cars.
The state school group, for example, includes all the parents who could not afford a car of any kind, for example.
I said "And it's obvious that more people who can afford private school will be able to afford an expensive car (IF they want one) than the rest of the population". That doesn't mean that no-one outside private school can afford flash cars.
No, I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I went to a private school, my parents had an enviable Audi. And a hideous brick coloured Vauxhall Viva.
I do however find much in this thread worth of piss-take cynicism and a good old eye roll,
Snobbery, inverse snobbery, glib assumptions that we all understand that a state school is good because it is in a 'nice area', comments that imply that state school parents with flash cars are 'materialistic', disingenuous please that 'no-one cares', when so many obviously do, or give others the impression that they do.....
And why? because in the end it is all about class. Entrenched class, aspirational class, unease about class, real concern about lack of equality, the higher number of expensive 4x4s on the high st against the higher number of food banks etc etc.
Cars, per se, are desperately boring. If I were a multi-millionaire I would not spend cash on cars.