My experience with BMW folks contradicts the stereotype

[Axius]

Originally Posted by M3Bimmer77

I with you but I don't use my car to its potential, does it mean I'm a DB? I don't brag about my car. I bought it bc I love cars and I wanted a nice sport car. I know it's not the best but it's the best I can do right now.

Happy Hollidays

Not the best? Tell that to some poor ol' bloke that's driving around in a first year 128i.

[ASBSECU E93]

Asshole car owners are not limited to BMW's....that is for damn sure.

[Axius]

Most of them are nestled up in a Prius.

[1LegitM235i]

Here's a surprising perspective to that, we're in America. Where we take things from one extreme to another and must be either insensitive and overly sensitive. This is my view, find a balance between the two and treat others the way they want to be treated.

[wdb]

Originally Posted by 1LegitM235i

Here's a surprising perspective to that, we're in America. Where we take things from one extreme to another and must be either insensitive and overly sensitive. This is my view, find a balance between the two and treat others the way they want to be treated.

Aw. Group hug!

[UPSROD]

What I have noticed, no matter what brand of car, the more expensive the car...the less the turn signals are likely to work! Entitled, don't have to follow the rules, don't have any concern for others.

[nholmes]

Originally Posted by Axius

Most of them are nestled up in a Prius.

I drive both cars. Now what?



This thread is the best autofellatio thread I've read on M3 post thus far.

You'll get more and more riff-raff like me driving these cars as they get cheaper. Time to jump to the F8x! You've been warned.

[Axius]

Originally Posted by nholmes

I drive both cars. Now what?

I have to play nice on the forum if I wish to stay, so I withhold my statement.

[nholmes]

Originally Posted by Axius

I have to play nice on the forum if I wish to stay, so I withhold my statement.

Send it in a PM, show me how you break the mold.

[Axius]

Originally Posted by nholmes

Send it in a PM, show me how you break the mold.

No thank you. I'm under constant investigation and I enjoy my stay here.



Enjoy your Prius.

[///mawana]

Originally Posted by Axius

Most of them are nestled up in a Prius.

[nholmes]

The car doesn't matter, I'm a prick no matter what I'm driving.

Coincidence?

[nholmes]

Originally Posted by Needbmwpartzz

There are awesome people everywhere......and so are the idiots/douchies!

This.

[FogCityM3]

Been to numerous BMW CCA events, track, auto-x, car-control and I couldn't have run into nicer people. I do think that enthusiasts are a self-selected group that respect vehicles from any model/year/brand and don't get into any pissing matches. Your average BMW driver on the road however, judging by driving behavior, I think that reputation has been earned, but then again you are talking two completely different groups of people.

Anonymity on the boards also increases caustic behavior, but if these same people met in a room, they wouldn't say 90% of the things they say on here.

[gtron]

Originally Posted by FogCityM3

Been to numerous BMW CCA events, track, auto-x, car-control and I couldn't have run into nicer people. I do think that enthusiasts are a self-selected group that respect vehicles from any model/year/brand and don't get into any pissing matches. Your average BMW driver on the road however, judging by driving behavior, I think that reputation has been earned, but then again you are talking two completely different groups of people.

Anonymity on the boards also increases caustic behavior, but if these same people met in a room, they wouldn't say 90% of the things they say on here.

agreed. people have different personas depending on their environment.

[PoorLurker]

Originally Posted by ///mawana

The real question is who is driving the AW E90 at about 1:05 in the movie until the end?

[djDori_C]

This is a interesting theory. My ex used to be a service advisor at BMW. She used to tell me that all the ignorant and self entitled customers were all the 323 owners.... And some of the most humble customers drove brand new 7 series... I guess it's the people that pretend to have money that are DB, while people with real money can be very nice. Just some food for thought.

[///mawana]

Originally Posted by PoorLurker

The real question is who is driving the AW E90 at about 1:05 in the movie until the end?

I knew that would come, wondered the same myself and I like that he wasn't hogging the left lane.

[wdb]

Originally Posted by djDori_C

My ex used to be a service advisor at BMW. She used to tell me that all the ignorant and self entitled customers were all the 323 owners.... And some of the most humble customers drove brand new 7 series...

New money / Old money

[1LegitM235i]

DBs are everywhere, BMW drivers or not, whether they are in front of you or behind you...

[lens]

Originally Posted by EALm4

It's people like the following that give us a bad rep

Classic asshole


The insecure kid on mom and dad's insurance


The wannabe who's still stuck in the Jersey shore days


Then there's this guy

Notice how it's mostly the old gen BMW owners that are the douchebags?

[F30lolz]

IMHO, I've had much more pleasant experiences with the BMW crowd in NY/NJ/CT compared to south FL. I was with the Patroon Chapter CCA based out of Albany and enjoyed going to their annual Show and Shine events at Keeler BMW in Latham and have met many great friends who I still keep in touch to this day. Down here, the Everglades Chapter doesn't really do much other than a Cars/Coffee event once a month which I've stopped going to back in the summer. Things should be changed up to make it more interesting (ie dine and drive events, shows at different locations, etc...). I've really never clicked with any BMW drivers down here like I've had in NY so I'm considered a loner lol.