Is it possible that the gangsters in GF paid more respect to the car of a man than to his life?
- During the party, Sonny destroys the camera of the FBI man, even though he could have just kicked the car. He spat on the ground not at the car.
- When Clemenza, Rocco and Paulie are going on their drive through NYC, he warns Paulie: "Watch out for the kids while you're backin' out", because even though they're on a Paulie-killing-trip, he doesn't want a scratch on his car if it hits his kids.
- Later when Rocco messed up Paulie's car with all the blood, Rocco and Clemenza are so scared, they run away like cowards and don't tell any-body.
- After Sonny is being shot, the Barzini gangsters take their time to put a brand-new windshield into the car.
- The worst villain in the whole Trilogy, of course, is Fabrizio who destroyed Michael's car in Sicily. When he realizes that is car is irreparably broken, he just whispers (in the deleted scene): "Get me Fabrizio!"

Other examples?

--Clemenza garotted Carlo, prefering a (replaceable) kicked-out windshield to bloodying the interior of that lavish, five-year-old Dodge Meadowbrook.

--Tom was so solicitous of possible wear and tear on Kay's '57 Buick Special wagon that he refused to let her drive it out of the Tahoe compound.

--Check out the look of condemnation on Michael's and Johnny Ola's faces when that thoughtless guerilla blew up a captain of the command with a grenade inside that fancy '57 Chevy in Cuba.

I always kinda liked Michael's limo when he came back from Cuba.

Yes, indeed! That's the rarest contemporary car in the Trilogy: it's a 1958 Chrysler Imperial Crown Ghia limo, one of only a dozen custom-built that year by Carozzeria Ghia of Turin Italy. At ~$13k, it was the most expensive US car of that year. Any movie crew can get vintage Cadillac limos, but trust Coppola to find that one.

Can't beat Sonny's car.

I disagree with this. "During the party, Sonny destroys the camera of the FBI man, even though he could have just kicked the car. He spat on the ground not at the car." - I doubt that was even the camera mans car.

"When Clemenza, Rocco and Paulie are going on their drive through NYC, he warns Paulie: "Watch out for the kids while you're backin' out"" - Clem was just warning Paulie that his kids were behind the car incase Paulie didnt notice.

"Rocco and Clemenza are so scared, they run away like cowards and don't tell any-body." - No, I don't think Clem and Rocco would go and tell Tattaglia (or Barzini) that Paulie was whacked and would brag about it. They would leave quickly before cars drove by and didn't become a suspect.

Didi you see the at the top of this thread?

FAbrizzio didn't care much for Michael's car in Sicily, nor did Michael care about Fabrizzio's car in the deleted scene.

I don't understand, Why would a care be more important than a mans' life?

As Danito said - Did you see the at the top of this thread?

How in the world did you conclude that?

I recall seeing a rebel in Cuba who would only blow up a car if he took his own life with it. Michael was awed by such car nobility.

Neri was sure to shoot Barzini in the opposite direction of the car so as not to get and GSR on the paint job.

When Vito was being shot at, the first thing he did was to put his body between the gunmen and his beloved car to protect it from bullets.

And when they were driving Michael to New Jersey, the driver KNEW how rough those Jersey neighborhoods were and that the car wouldn't be safe parked outside a restaurant there, so the driver flipped a hard U-turn on the turnpike and drove all the way to the Bronx where the car would be safe from thieves, vandals and chop-shops.

And Michael was so concerned about his car in Miami that he drove it himself and made his bodyguard ride in the back.

Hagen's people who came to the hospital to protect Vito had cars with squeaky brakes, and later Michael fired him cause he wasn't a wartime consigliere.