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I was called a fa66ot by an idiot woman driver one day, because i was driving a BMW. I don't recall how it lead up that, but probably something to do with her sitting at a green light staring at her phone, and her upbringing in rural Alabama.
I'm assuming of course. Just like she assume I MUST be a homosexual because I'm not an overweight Alabama redneck driving a gas guzzling 4x4 on interstate freeways.
Whatever. I drive what I want because I like the car and I spend a lot of time in it.
It's not what you drive. It's how you drive that makes someone look like a douche. If you're driving a 1990 Honda Civic like an idiot you look like a douche. If you're driving a 2016 Buick like a jerk, then you'll look like a douche. If you're driving a tractor trailer like an asshat, then you'll look like a douche.
Just because someone drives a $50, 60, 80 thousand dollar vehicle doesn't make them a douche. Plenty of people have expensive vehicles and aren't jerks. It's not the vehicle. It's the personality behind the wheel.
And fart mufflers.....yeah you look like an idiot automatically.....
Truthfully I label drivers douchebags not their cars. The vehicle is simply the container that encapsulates the douchebag. But as far as pretentious Ahole douchebag I vote Prius drivers. I think they automatically staple a few Aholes to your body upon receiving the keys, just to make sure they covered all the bases
I second this vote
you don't need to spend $100,000 on a car to be a Douche, having an agenda will do
the Honda Civic Hybrid which was superior to the Prius sold poorly as it looks just like the non-hybrid model, When Honda surveyed those who looked at the Civic Hybrid but chose the Prius....... they found the most common response was "I want people to know I'm driving a Hybrid"
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Porsche is too common and inexpensive to appear that the driver is rich. Same for Mercedes, Jaguar, BMW and Audi. Even Teslas are all over the place. Around here, to raise eyebrows you must have a Lamborghini, Ferrari, or Bentley.
Yeah, Tesla was a new fade in out doctors garage too for the last 3 or so years. Maseratis and Porsches and Jags vanished and Tesla stepped in.
Wouldn't MB, Jag, AND Ferrari and Lambo still fall into the same "rich douche" category though?
I have second thoughts on Bentley or Royce though. Bentley is rather a classy car.
Truthfully I label drivers douchebags not their cars. The vehicle is simply the container that encapsulates the douchebag. But as far as pretentious Ahole douchebag I vote Prius drivers. I think they automatically staple a few Aholes to your body upon receiving the keys, just to make sure they covered all the bases
No, they sniff their farts in the bottle. Look up South Park episode on that.
you don't need to spend $100,000 on a car to be a Douche, having an agenda will do
the Honda Civic Hybrid which was superior to the Prius sold poorly as it looks just like the non-hybrid model, When Honda surveyed those who looked at the Civic Hybrid but chose the Prius....... they found the most common response was "I want people to know I'm driving a Hybrid"
Along with "I bought the roomier car with more passenger and cargo room that got much better gas mileage." Surprisingly, fun to drive wasn't high on the list of things people looking at hybrids cared about, which was the only thing the Civic Hybrid did better than the Prius. Especially once the reliability of the Civic Hybrid got out with the battery replacement being around 10x that of the Prius, and 100-300x higher than the Prius in the final years of the Gen II Civic hybrid, that kind of sealed the nail on the coffin. Nobody wanted to replace traction batteries and since the Civic had a 30% failure rate that didn't inspire much confidence in anyone. Sure, those were being replaced almost entirely under warranty but if 30% of the batteries can't even make it 3-4 years, well that's pretty stupid. Given the 30% failure rate, I wouldn't look at any hybrid Honda makes for another five years or so. They may have fixed the problem with Gen III but by that time it was too late. The Insight didn't really sell either for the same reasons the Civic Hybrid didn't. Reputation of poor reliability, poor fuel economy relative to the Prius, smaller and less practical, more road noise. That it drove better than a Prius didn't really help it any since that wasn't a major consideration for people buying hybrids like the Prius or Insight or Civic Hybrid.
And your opinion sucks. Being judgmental is not a pretty thing as this thread proves. The majority of us BMW owners are enthusiasts who needed or wanted something practical that also has outstanding chassis/balance/acceleration/agility. It's true that my 7 series is an older model that delivers all that at a reasonable price, but my son's leased 2015 3 series turbo diesel wagon is a practical car (good for carrying his dogs and gets 45 mpg) and still has speed and handling balance to make it fun to drive (he's had three 3 series cars, including his latest cash purchase, a 2004 330i ZHP sedan with the 6 sped manual. Fast little car).
Dejected outrage that someone said something bad about their car, check.
Drives an old 7 series that the stylist had to have been on bath salts when working on it, check.
Rented 'practical' overpriced low end car...minus the standard features found elsewhere, check.
Not enough sense to steer clear of buying a decade old BMW, check.
the Honda Civic Hybrid which was superior to the Prius sold poorly as it looks just like the non-hybrid model, When Honda surveyed those who looked at the Civic Hybrid but chose the Prius....... they found the most common response was "I want people to know I'm driving a Hybrid"
Do you have a link? I'd be interested in reading more about this.
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