In popular culture, the matter has been clear since the early 1930s: “A friend, a good friend, that’s the best thing there is in the world,” actor Heinz Rühmann sang in the German musical film The Three from the Filling Station. Friends are important for us. People who have good friends live twenty percent longer, are more confident and are considerably happier. Friends allow us to see life differently and make our lives easier. Or more exciting. Friends with benefits, for example, are there to help us fulfill our desires, especially when we’re in the mood. A good personal connection, with the occasional romp in the sack thrown in for good measure.
From the perspective of an enlightened car culture magazine, this also works in a figurative sense. Which brings us to sports cars. The sorts of cars that we have grown to love in our daily lives, that help us to spontaneously break out of the moment.