When visiting Switzerland they leave the Ferrari behind and take a less conspicuous car.
Like many others, he takes steps to limit his exposure, traveling at irregular times, exchanging his BMW for a less conspicuous car.
One bright autumn Sunday, Ritchie was riding shotgun in a conspicuous car: a black Cadillac Escalade with tinted windows and a "RUN DMC" vanity plate.
We were in Ive's black Bentley, which is as demure as a highly conspicuous luxury car can be.
However, many celebrities and tycoons, he said, were opting for less conspicuous town cars, fearing limousines might attract protesters.
Refugee officials in Geneva reported a conspicuous increase in cars departing Damascus, the capital, which had been relatively insulated from the insurgency against Mr. Assad until this week, when rebels of the Free Syrian Army took the fight to neighborhoods in earshot of the presidential palace.
For ordinary Chinese today, conspicuous consumption is "a car, or an apartment," he said.
And to clear up two similar phrases: a status symbol refers to the object itself, like a luxury car; whereas conspicuous consumption refers to the act of spending money on things like expensive cars but you're spending money so that other people notice.
Through an entire week of automotive excess and car-related conspicuous consumption, banners and booths for Aston Martin, Lamborghini, Maserati, Bentley, McLaren and other top brands dot the wooded landscape and line the borders of the area's many private golf courses.
The car is a conspicuous flash of silver in drab downtown Pleasant Valley, a town of 8,000 about two hours from his 14th-floor office in Rockefeller Center.
In spring of 2009, residents of Broughton, a hamlet in southeast England, took to the streets and surrounded a lone, unmarked Google car with its conspicuous periscope camera, the crowd swiftly herding the intruder out of their neighborhood.
