What does a burning car as image mean in this context? The car is a machine that transforms energy. It is a small powerhouse and therefor af- flicted with all problems that are connected to the release of energy. The latter is in each case doable in a civilized manner if the catastrophic potential of the energy generation is accomplishable.
A guiding instrument are the brakes but admittedly they themselves - directly or indirectly - can become a source of danger when they become hot or are defect and by this directly or indirectly  set a fire to a vehicle. Admittedly also natural catastrophes and war acts like hits of a grenade or bomb can destroy a car but most destroyed cars are linked directly with traffic accidents and incidents in traffic. Like a torpedo on water each car is a weapon-carrier as it has fuel on board the shattering power of which can even be  increased by additional fright of explosives. In a car bomb the trivial fact after all culminates that cars alone because of their speed unfurl potential for violence. They are suited for attacks, with the German word 'Anschlag' - also being  a synonym for poster advertisement - merging war, terror, advertisement and propaganda etymologically.

An attack against the "order of society" is always also aimed against the symbols of a society. The distinctiveness of using the car has its reason in the fact that it belongs to both sides because it can be utilized as a weapon against societal values of which it is a symbol. It embodies the mobility and thus an essential basis of the industrial society and a society based on the provision of services. Its cult is power of engine and speed. As the rendering of services only indirectly draws its profits from production - which ideally has been relocated elsewhere - the foundation for economic activity  is provided by change of location and speed even more so than in the industrial society.

By the way "Verlagerung" und "Auslagerung" (both are terms used by the Nazis for 'production relocating', meaning that some products were produced in Nazi-occupied countries, mainly in the East) of production was already used during Second World War when it was part of the warfare, whilst nowadays it is applied as an instrument in competition for wage reduction and worsening of working condition.

The continuous and fast change of place as demanded from the members of society takes central societal position and that is why the car is a symbol of those values. By the choice of the car as a weapon the value of speed is attested whilst it is challenged by its deliberate destruction. Also because of this reason images of car wrecks arouse emotions on all levels. The car, its condition and its wreckage are icons of our time, its speed, its violence, its still-stand. It polarizes where the preaching of 'fast money' doesn't mention that the undamped capital drives the economic processes 'against the wall' and the resulting damages on life and things exceeds those caused by criminal violent acts, or intensifies them and results in wars.  The empty cities and landscapes Boue's could be relics of such breakdowns that as enduring as natural catastrophes destroy life.

4. Mass product becomes cult- or surrogate image
A car is its own image - this is the aesthetic basis for its artistic presentati-
on. As a created object it is a sculpture of itself. Each image therefor is tautologic because cars as a mass product are generally at present everywhere if it wasn't for their finite life-span. Deterioration and change of its external create the wish to preserve the untouched new condition by an image. Mass technological production and change of modells replaced the breeding thus the control of the biological reproduction of horses without overcoming the totemic adoration for workhorses and mounts by ancient