Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 18:20:07 -0400 From: "Stuart Kunkler" <stukunopsamdnet.att.net> Subject: Re: BMW's are little bitch cars
allan -- your message contains more rational thought than this entire string put together. way to go. it amazes me, the chips people carry on their shoulders when it comes to their cars. my post has been flamed a lot -- pretty much exclusively by bmw people, for some reason -- even though it was pointed at anybody who took offense at a negative comment on his car. the saab people were as much the subject of my post as the bmw guys, because when it comes to sheer performance numbers, bmw models have the edge. it seems ridiculous for saab drivers to argue for their cars on this basis. i choose saab because it is unique in the auto world. the car has styling that turns MY head, and i don't care about anyone else's. it has sufficient performance to be exhilarating for ME to drive. and it IS a blast to drive. it has a sound unlike anything on the road. i don't need to feel that i'm driving a superior automobile, because as you so rightly point out there is no universally superior car. it seems that many got my point backwards. it's not that people generally make automotive purchase decisions with a *conscious* effort to attract a mate. the point is this: when you make many purchase decisions, including cars, you are usually buying something that appeals to you. therefore it says something about your personality (the same personality, btw, that you use to attract the opposite sex.) you can't help it. even the people who try NOT to make a statement with a car, end up revealing something about themselves with this supposed "non-statement." so when somebody criticizes your purchase of something that appeals to you, and if you take offense, you're doing so on a conscious level because it's a criticism of your purchase, and on a subconscious level because deep down you take it as a slap at your personality. why else would all the participants in this string react so heatedly to comments about their cars? so with their replies, the flamers tended to prove my point because their first instinct was to react emotionally, not rationally. happy driving. (i also bought two vw's back in the old days and loved them. coincidentally, so did my girlfriends...) stuart Allan Williams wrote in message <7f6e0s$21c$1nopsamource.ihug.co.nz>... >Then there are those of us who use our personality and looks to attract the >opposite sex - the car is for going places. > >I have three aircooled VW's, one stock, one under restoration, and one >HIGHLY modified one. Our other car is a BMW. Any one who is attracted to you >based on what car you drive is probably either after your money, the good >things it can provide... > >Different parts of the world have different views of different types of >cars. Where I live, Volvo's are mostly owned by older people, Saabs range >from young up to old, as do BMW - because of the wide range of models. > >If you based your opinion of me on my cars (if you saw them) you would think >I was quite a different person to what I am... I'm a petrolhead with an eye >for detail, but I like to be different. I would most probably fit you >stereotypical Saab driver... > >I'll take a woman who admires cars over one who doesn't - and I did. > >I don't ever say that one make of car is better than another - there are too >many different models, and too many different preferences in a car to say >one make is better. I enjoy driving my 3 Series BMW, but I don't think I >would ever own a 7 series - I'm not a big car fan. > >Perhaps everybody should stop saying this car is best because blah blah >blah, and find out what car would suit the person asking about them. I can >tell you several stories of car salesmen who tried to sell me a car I didn't >want - most of them were embarrased in front of their workmates. > >I don't know why people crosspost these questions - they NEVER get the >answers they want. If you want to buy a car, test drive it and see if you >like it... then make up your own mind. > > > >-- >Allan Williams >"Where's my Bong?" >----------------------------------------------------- > >Stuart Kunkler wrote in message <7f3l3r$gsb$1nopsamsc03.worldnet.att.net>... >>this has to be the most fascinating thread i've ever read, and the most >>fruitless as well. there are some people here with either (a) too much time >>on their hands, or (b) a strong need to impress. or both. >> >>here's what's really going on in this thread: a man's choice of automobile >>says more about his personality than he cares to admit. (it also speaks >>volumes about the sexual partner he would like to attract.) if you're >>insulted by what another man says about your car, especially when the facts >>are in his favor, you're actually taking insult with what he's saying about >>your character and your preferences. >> >>i have owned -- and been enthusiastically happy with -- both saabs and >>volvos. i have friends who drive bmw's, audis and porsches. (i honestly >>can't say i hang with any corvette owners.) as to the point about >attracting >>a sex partner, i'll take a woman who admires a saab over any of those other >>makes -- especially bmw -- eight days a week. >> >>stuart >>84 240 >>86 900S >>93 850 GLT >>95 900SE >>____________________________________ >>"I took the initiative in creating the internet." >> - Al Gore, March 12, 1999 >> >> >> >> >> > >
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