But what doesn't get acknowledged, in those forums at least, is that the car has always helped cinema get more cerebral too.
Even after amendments were passed that gave women and racial minorities equal rights in theory, it took lawsuits and, as with the Voting Rights Act, legislation to get those rights acknowledged in a practical sense.
While that shift rarely gets discussed, debated, or even acknowledged in many political circles, it has driven a rapid and almost continuous decline in state support for most public universities, with the assumption that if individual students reap the financial rewards of their college education over their lifetime, they should pay more for it in the form of higher tuition.
The two didn't get on, which Mr Trump acknowledged in a discussion with workers at a tank factory in Ohio.
Gizara, in particular, takes certain satisfaction, as a female artist in the highly competitive and male dominated world of fine art, in cracking a certain ceiling in getting her work more widely acknowledged in both the creative and commercial marketplace.
Pascale told me about the trial, and the progress she and her fellow supporters made in getting Lisette's undiagnosed postpartum psychosis acknowledged in the sentencing process.
In February 2009, two of his men were killed and a third of them were wounded, but the convoys got through, and it is widely acknowledged in Tarin Kowt that Matiullah sent one of the wounded men to a hospital in India to have his eye saved.
Co-writers and co-directors Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen have acknowledged their surprise in getting away with an R instead of an NC-17, given the movie's most out-there and in-there sexual sight gags, along with some excessively gory details (Michael Cera impaled by a street light, but coming up with a zinger regardless).
The help these uprooted people now get, she acknowledged, "is selective, uneven and, in many cases, inadequate".
As I get older I've started acknowledging in tangible ways that while the longing for a cinematic relationship is universal and, obviously, keeps Hollywood romantic comedies in business, the hardest relationship isn't always the best.
