A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
The automotive city was not simply the product of mass demand for automobiles. In 1920 there was a free market for automobiles but not for the use of city streets.
Peter D. Norton • Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Beyond the prospect of fewer cars per capita, there could also be a significant threat to luxury automotive brands. If you don’t own the car and will use it for only a single trip, you have little reason to care what make or model it is. Cars could cease to be status items, and the automobile market might well become commoditized. For these reasons
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