私家車與商品房在爭奪人們心中消費第一支出的位置，這本身就是對傳統(tǒng)安居樂業(yè)觀念的超越與顛覆。買商品房是一種相當(dāng)靜態(tài)的保值型投資，這種不動產(chǎn)提供的封閉空間，客觀上將人的生活固定在一種保守的模式上;而買車是一種積極的動態(tài)投資，就汽車本身來說會越來越貶值，但在社交的意義和精神需要上，它能自由地將人帶往很遠的地方和更大的圈子，使人與城市產(chǎn)生更活躍的交流。《汽車就是我們的身體語言》

　　The fact that private cars are competing with commodity houses to be the first consideration in people’s consumption itself shows that the traditional idea of sticking to a certain place is challenged. The purchase of commodity houses is a kind of inflation proof investment. By limiting people in an isolated space, houses provide a type of conservative lifestyle. The purchase of private cars, however, is greatly different in that the private cars can easily take people to remoter places and into larger societies to have a wider communication in the city, no matter socially or spiritually, although the cars begin to devalue the very moment people buy them.