03-07-2011, 09:43 AM
Lee and I were talking about about the influx of BMWs and it got me thinking about the reasons why. I don't know that our dad's choice in car is a direct correlation, but I do think what people see as "the car" when they're in their formative years plays a big part. For example, my family had domestics when I was really young, but about the time I really started paying attention to cars was when my family was heavy in Europeans. The result? I'm an eurowhore.
Speaking from experience, BMWs were the car that everyone thought was the end all, be all of cars ~10 years ago. It seemed every business man was driving one and every college kid (shit, I wasn't even in college 10 years ago) saw them as the car to buy when you made your fat wads of cash. I don't think there's any denying that BMW makes good cars... I loved my E36 M3.... but there's gotta be something else at play.
Soooo... what cars made an impression on you when you were growing up and has that impacted your buying habits?
Speaking from experience, BMWs were the car that everyone thought was the end all, be all of cars ~10 years ago. It seemed every business man was driving one and every college kid (shit, I wasn't even in college 10 years ago) saw them as the car to buy when you made your fat wads of cash. I don't think there's any denying that BMW makes good cars... I loved my E36 M3.... but there's gotta be something else at play.
Soooo... what cars made an impression on you when you were growing up and has that impacted your buying habits?
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth