I mean, that's a bit of an extreme and absurd comparison to make, and Nymrohd may well be right in arguing that - in the UK - having a car should be considered a basic need because (eg.) all the jobs have been moved out of city centres and public transport doesn't cut it. I disagree, but if he can provide any evidence that a significant proportion of lowest income jobs would require a car I'll concede it. I'm 34 and for most of my adult life I've worked minimum wage or been unemployed and I've never needed a car, but then I've also lived in a town (80k pop.) or city (300k pop.) so maybe my stance is skewed.
The sort of job that would demand personal transport that come to mind are things like labouring/handiman work where you might need a van to transport all your tools/kit; but then again most of those jobs pay well over minimum wage too, but maybe I'm just not imaginative enough at 9 in the morning