IMHO, got 2 kinds of rich and influential people. First kind is
like to showoff and buy luxury cars. Second kind is want to be
funny, attract attention in another way, humble or whatever reasons
and buy a really crap car. Good example is one of our ministers(no
name mentioning). He used to drive a Nissan March and if I am not
wrong, a Honda Jazz now. However, his wife does have another car
which I heard is a Lexus(correct me if I am wrong, apologise if
wrong info).
Therefore, your chairman who bought a datsun 100A for his son might
not necessarily mean that he does not get to drive around in his
dad's merc or bimmer at night or during weekends? Who knows it
might just be for show eh?
Nonetheless, I have to agree that no dad who has a sound mind would
do something to cause his son tragedy. However, different fathers
have different ways in showing their love for their kids.