[puck724]

Originally Posted by BMW786

Blaine, I know what you mean. So Cal ppl. are just not friendly! I've seen many a E90 around here but we get no love down here.

im from SoCal...i think im friendly

[Robert]

Maybe when you take delivery you should dump your Audi driving b/f and get a bimmer b/f jk

[BMW786]

Originally Posted by puck724

im from SoCal...i think im friendly

haha puck. Thanks. I'll keep my eye out for a Sapphire Black 330i and I'll wave, but if it's you, you have to wave back ok??

[matrix]

Originally Posted by JamieA

My dealer thanked me for being polite and nice to deal with... they must bear the brunt of it I guess.

That is ture...My CA told me that "you wouldn't believe how many a$$holes come in to buy BMW's"

[BellasBmw]

Originally Posted by Ben in italy

Ha! That sounds like a lot of drivers out here in Italy! I hate driving here. Everyone is in such a hurry, and with these itty bitty roads and hazards EVERYWHERE I don't understand why I don't see 50 accidents a day!!

Desiree

Hhaah the 2x ive been to italy- i loved it haha. its so funny, ppl honk left and right, no one obey's stop signs, nor seatbelts. The streets small enough for only 1 car, yet 2 will try at the same time. Last time my parents went, i think my dad nearly killed 40 people- cause he was driving too safe haha..

[blaine]

Originally Posted by puck724

im from SoCal...i think im friendly

When i made my original post i should have been more specific.. i was mainly talking about the Newport Coast/Newport Beach/Corona Del Mar area where i am from.. not sothern california in general.

[eimSD]

Originally Posted by Oz

I haven't had much problem here in Buffalo yet. I only have seen another TiAg 325 at my university.. And I haven't seen a E90 anywhere else in Buffalo

A Buffalonian! I'm from Buffalo (grew up in Kenmore, went to Kenmore West, UB), moved out to SD when I was 22. I'm from a GM family (my dad worked at a Chevy plant, my older sister does), my mom was disappointed I didn't get a Malibu

In SD there are tons of BMWs, yesterday I got my first compliment from a stranger, I pulled into a gas station behind a nice looking (e46) 330, the medium-darkish blue. When the lady got out after her gas finished pumping, she looks at my car, says "beautiful car!" All I said was thanks, but I really should have returned the compliment, I was just so surprised.

Re. Audis, I love 'em, they always catch my eye. I might have gotten one, but they don't have an ED program, and I'd heard negative things regarding their reliability. But I've seen 1 or 2 articles in the past few months that indicate there has been much improvement on that front for them.

[puck724]

Originally Posted by blaine

When i made my original post i should have been more specific.. i was mainly talking about the Newport Coast/Newport Beach/Corona Del Mar area where i am from.. not sothern california in general.

lol..i am from the newport coast/newport beach/corona del mar area...even though i dont live there im always over there...lol


BMW786- damn straight ill wave back!!

[JamieA]

Originally Posted by matrix

That is ture...My CA told me that "you wouldn't believe how many a$$holes come in to buy BMW's"

Yes, well in plainer terms that is indeed what he said, he said that people treat him like sh*t because they think they are better than him because they are buying a BMW... it is part of the reason I gut such a great deal from them I think, so I kind of laugh at those as$$holes because they are basically being fleeced HAHA

I don't think there is ever an excuse to be disrespectful to someone.

[JamieA]

Originally Posted by eimSD

Re. Audis, I love 'em, they always catch my eye. I might have gotten one, but they don't have an ED program, and I'd heard negative things regarding their reliability. But I've seen 1 or 2 articles in the past few months that indicate there has been much improvement on that front for them.

The reliability of my Audi A4 (2002, B6 model) was very disappointing. I have had the coils replaced after it broke down int he middle of nowhere with a friend's 4 yo child in the car and Audi refused to help me out with a loan car (I am in the Audi Corporate roadside assistance program for pete's sake!). I have numerous rattles, the back parcel shelf vibrates so the sub woofer is useless, I have had front speakers cut out every time I went around a corner, and to top it off, the thermostat went and the engine was choosing the wrong fuel mapping so it was running like an old banger!

My friend's TT suffered all the same problems, then the dashboard stopped working (their car was 3 years old). Another friend's S4 likewise...

I love my car, very nice, but the reliability issues were one of the big reasons that in the end swayed my decision, well that and I absolutely love the 325 that is going to be delivered to bits!!!!

[D-Rock]

Originally Posted by Nikki

My boyfriend was driving today and he stopped at a light next to a e90 at like 7am while he was driving to work. He drives a 2000 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro Avant. So he asks the guy in the e90 "how do you like it?" and the guy replies "it's better than that"



wow.

What lol thats soooooo funny wow

[Armen52]

Just an A6. I like that one.

That was said seconds before he ate some serious dust. RS6 is fast, but I only ever saw one dark green one in Berkeley.

I still can't believe a Z8 driver gave me the nod for my E90 though.

[BMWE90LOVER]

What a f***ing a$$whole. But your BF is the better man for letting it go. No wonder people think BMW drivers are a$$wholes.

[stressdoc]

I am curious what his passenger Paris Hilton said about Nikki...

[StevoSEA]

Originally Posted by FastMhz

what an ASSHOLE!!!!!!! audi's are nice too!

I agree-especially the A3

[coupedupcivic]

nikki dump your man...and holla at me!

[cdheaven]

very mature coupe. im sure it will work too

[ben1364]

Interesting dialog. When BMW was young in the U S, we all flashed our headlamps at each other. Then came the yuppies during the 1980s....

[stressdoc]

The good old days! We used to moon MBs out the sunroof.

[poldim]

This thread is old....really old...

[e90rocks]

(re: original post)

Well I guess some e90's do have dipsticks in them after all.
Sometimes people think they actually have more to do with a rivalry or competition than they really do.

I am reminded of the time I went to a Penn State - Michigan football game, and unfortunately had to sit in the Michigan section in Beaver Stadium. That was OK, but when I told a Michigan fan that my sister had gone there (I was just making conversation, for cryin out loud) she said "Well, I guess she's not here today cuz she has a jaab." (nice midwestern accent there).

I was too surprised to get pulled into some kind of fake petty hatred thing. Naturally this doesn't reflect on all Wolverine fans, just like that dude at the stoplight shouldn't represent all BMW enthusiasts.

Realistically, aside from ability to pay for a Bimmer, we're a fairly heterogenous group. Someone help me out here... was it Kurt Vonnegut (or Douglas Adams?) who had a term for imagined commonalities? Groups of people who thought they were connected, but really were maybe members of the same fraternity at different schools 25 years apart ("what are the odds?") or Packer fans or whatever? I think Seinfeld did a bit on this about people born on the same day of the year....like yeah, you, Joe Frazier, Benjamin Disraeli, and Secretariat.

Anyway, what a jerk that guy was. Maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive a car with horsepower more than twice their IQ.

[akhbhaat]

Originally Posted by e90rocks

Realistically, aside from ability to pay for a Bimmer, we're a fairly heterogenous group. Someone help me out here... was it Kurt Vonnegut (or Douglas Adams?) who had a term for imagined commonalities? Groups of people who thought they were connected, but really were maybe members of the same fraternity at different schools 25 years apart ("what are the odds?") or Packer fans or whatever? I think Seinfeld did a bit on this about people born on the same day of the year....like yeah, you, Joe Frazier, Benjamin Disraeli, and Secretariat.

Anyway, what a jerk that guy was. Maybe people shouldn't be allowed to drive a car with horsepower more than twice their IQ.

You're probably thinking of Benedict Anderson and "imagined communities," whereas a nation's social structure is so designed that people within it imagine themselves as belonging to the same group as everybody else within the same social structure (nationalism). Imagined communities are theorized as a strong factor in modern nationalism or imperialism.

For a modern example, if you were to traveling abroad and ran into another American in a foreign locale (say, China), you would immediately identify them as a countryman and choose to associate with them as such, whereas you might not ever directly associate with them otherwise (the only thing that you might have in common is that you belong to the same imagined "community," which only becomes apparent when you're both placed into an unfamiliar environment). Likewise if you run into a university grad from the same institution as the one you attended: you might be inclined to identify with them in most parts of the world, unless you were actually on the campus of said institution (where they could have belonged to a completely different social group).

As an aside, I always wondered if and when I would ever need that knowledge.

School loyalties and automobile brand loyalties and such function as microcosms of this phenomenon. Personally, I don't identify with other BMW owners as "fellow BMW owners," (just I wouldn't automatically introduce myself to another alumnus from the same undergraduate university) particularly because I don't think of myself as belonging to any group on strictly superficial "imagined" terms. Most of them have very different personalities and preferences than I do...you will find, of course, a greater degree of homogeny on a site such as this, a homogeny which does not exist among the greater whole of BMW drivers.