Speaking of BMW drivers…
I like the way he just drives away at the end.
(You have to click on the the GIF to see the animation.)
Kinda hard to tell if he was driving away or just pulling off to the side…But I’ll bet he’s just driving away.
"Now, like you, we buy cars by “convenience”.
@Dagosa–my dad did business with a Desoto/Plymouth dealer. Even after he bought a Buick from a friend, the Desoto/Plymouth dealer did most of the service on the Buick. When Chrysler dropped the Desoto, the dealer switched to imported cars and then picked up the Studebaker line as well. My dad bought a Studebaker from the dealer because the service was good and the dealership would always send someone out if there was a problem.
I live in a university town with population of about 60,000, but there is no BMW dealer. In fact, there are no Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda or Mercedes Benz dealers. The Nissan dealer just folded. I have former colleagues who own BMWs and they have to drive 60 miles each way to the nearest dealer. The Toyota and Chevrolet dealerships are one mile from where I live. My independent shop is less than a mile from my house. The convenience factor was particularly important before I retired.
Recently, where I live, it’s not the BMW cars that are being driven by jackasses so much as it seems to be Dodge Ram pickups with duals and a bed cover or Ford F-250s. Both of these vehicles seem to be great big middle digits on four wheels for the people who own them, especially if they have custom chromed exhausts and bed covers.
I’d have to agree–Bimmer drivers (not all of them, but many) seem to want to go as fast as they can, racing up behind you and crowding you or flashing their lights, etc. My mechanic was telling me he has a customer with an Bimmer SUV that was damaged and the customer was driving a rented Camry and complaining that it was taking too long to repair the SUV–it had been in the shop only a few days and he didn’t have the parts yet–he wasn’t happy in the Camry. An attitude problem.
@triedaq
Just an asside but, if one doubted whether there was any where they could get their car worked on , BMW included, I always got a big kick out of the sign over a car repair shop on my way to work.
It read; " We specialize in all foreign and domestic cars."
Help me here. How can you say you specialize when you say you work on all cars ? Am I missing something or for the twenty five years I drove by the shop and laughed, was the joke on me ?
I even stopped by one day and spoke with the guy at the counter about my confusion. He just seemed to smile and pass me off as a nut case.
“We specialize in all foreign and domestic cars…I even stopped by one day and spoke with the guy at the counter about my confusion.”
On my way to work I used to pass a shop that was…perhaps…even more confusing.
Their sign read, “We specialized in all foreign & domestic cars”.
So, apparently that shop used to “specialize” in everything, but now they specialize in…nothing–except perhaps confusion regarding the past tense.
;-))
When I lived in CT, there were a lot of shops that had specialty signs, one right next door to us said “We specialize in Volvo and European cars”, I had to stop by once for an emergency an asked the guy where are Volvo’s built and he just gave me a blank stare.
I guess catering to the upper middle class has its advantages.
Some may, or may not, remember the gentleman in the Los Angeles area back in the early 80s I think it was that reached the end of the rope on his near new Chrysler. I believe it was plagued with problems and he said enough is enough.
He drove it up on the grassy area in front of the dealership where he had purchased the car, doused it with a full can of gasoline, and threw a lit match on it. The car was a total loss of course and after being arrested he was charged with Second Degree Arson.