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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:07:32 -0000
From: MeatballTurbo <carl.robsonnopsamcing-czechs.com>
Subject: Re: BMWs keep trying to smoke me!


In article <oLx3a.8366$jR3.4573193nopsam1.news.adelphia.net>, Fred.Willsnopsamammyrealbox.com spouted forth into alt.autos.saab... > Yes, that seems to be the big hang-up. A lot of people just can't get past > the stereotype one way or another. There are definitely a large number of > people that buy BMWs (and SAABs for that matter) only for the status. OTOH > there are a lot of people that really understand what they are and buy them > for what they are, superior engineered cars. > This is going to be a major generalisation, but in the UK Newer BMW 3 series are driven by tosspot sales men. older BMW 3 series cost peanuts unless they are absolutley mint condition, becuase either they have been caned to within an inch of the junk yard by the aforsaid sales man (one of the guys at work has a 318 ti compact, that has done over 100000 miles in a year and a half, needed two tyres for the last MOT because they were completley bald, has a mirror and front indicator lens missing, has a electric window that doesn't work, and because he uses the sunroof as an ashtray, is covered in cigarette burns and ash, when he can actually spend enough to get it through this years MOT (probably need those tyres again) he says he reckons he should get £4000 for it. It was difficult to tell it was probably worth about the same as my twenty year old Saab), or have already been owned by minor drug dealers, and are known to the police so you end up getting followed, stopped and searched everywhere, and probably shot at by other dealers. I like the cars, but they do have a bad rep for the worst kind of owner. 5 series are nice, and funnily enough don't have that rep. -- Carl Robson (The poster formerly known as Skodapilot) http://www.bouncing-czechs.com

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