I don’t know why anyone wants a car. I have one because I might have to for work and generally my wife needs to for her medical issues. I sure don’t want one though. I would say its important though. I live in a transit friendly city but not having one is still limiting unfortunately. The ideal thing if you have to have a car is for it to be mostly parked at home.
In his defense if there had been one they would have been going crazy with oh snap, burn, he took the bait and such.