Ever seen a BMW X5 driven slowly on a motorway? I haven’t. Is there perhaps a paragraph in the owner’s manual which reads:
Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of a powerful and expensive ‘off-road’ vehicle, which has been designed to be driven rapidly. DO NOT DRIVE SLOWER THAN 90 MPH!!
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Is it me or do all X5's come with a stroppy blonde female driver with a mobile phone welded to her ear?
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Possibly; what nearly all of them seem to have is a personalised plate, often incorporating the digits X and 5. So, you've got not just a BMW, but a big BMW, a big and tall BMW, and a big and tall BMW with a personalised plate.
But you're still insecure!
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As the former owner of a 7-series I can tell you that I was glad to get rid of it. Drivers of other marques don't seem keen on BMW drivers (admittedly the 'ultimate driving machine' slogan did attract a disproportionate number of juvenile oiks into BM's) and I found that people were much more agressive toward me when driving the '7' than when I drove our Primera or C-class, even though the Primera is the GTe model. It was extremely rare to be 'waved out' of a turning when in the '7', for example. I'm now getting an old Nissan QX, so hopefully I'll blend anonymously into the background!
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Is it me or do all X5's come with a stroppy blonde female driver with a mobile phone welded to her ear?
Didn't you know: Of course they go together. Signs of status & wealth. The message from the husband/boyfriend is "this is what I can afford with my money".
I love the politics of envy and greed.
PS - I drive a BMW. One of my neighbours (in Ashley P/ St.G.Hill / Burwood P ) has the numberplate X5 5NOB on his X5!
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PS - I drive a BMW. One of my neighbours (in Ashley P/ St.G.Hill / Burwood P ) has the numberplate X5 5NOB on his X5!
I think the plate says it all just remove the second 5 and you have the driver :)
306 2.0 SE Cabriolet
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I think the plate says it all just remove the second 5 and you have the driver :) 306 2.0 SE Cabriolet
He knows that and does not care! One of his friends drives an Audi RS with plate R5 OFF , and another one has a Porsche Boxster with the plate B16 EGO (I think or something very similar?). The point is, these people want you think that they don't care what others think - but want to show off anyhow.
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Oh? It happens in the UK too?
.. and imagine how bad it will become when the X3 hits the market ...
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If this thread turns into a ranting session about BWM drivers; then bye bye thread. DD.
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DD,
When do you take delivery?
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I don't. Still v.happy with the Vectra.
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I don't. Still v.happy with the Vectra.
As Basil Fawlty said... "A satisfied customer? We should have him stuffed"!
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I was following one of these up the A1 a month or two back, Brand new 03 plate. The whole rear bumper assembly fell off into the road. Fortunately I was not to close and managed to swerve round it (the old scenic didnt like swerving i can tell you).
I managed to get the blokes attention just as a following lorry reduced it to bits of broken plastic.
I was - shall we say - somewhat ammused by the whole incident. I cant imagine what the bloke said when he took it back to the dealer.
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He he he Thanks RF and Dan J for the gift of laughter.
DD - Must admit I've never had a problem with BWM drivers. :-)
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All that power.
DD did you really never want to be a traffic warden?
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to plagiarise an old Morecambe and Wise joke...
when you see an X5 (black with tinted glass natch) blasting along just think, he'll never sell any charlie going at that speed.
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HJ - I escaped from ChiangMai/ChianRai just before Songkran to the Dusit resort at HuaHin/ChaAm. The water guns here were bad enough, I don't know how people can survive Songkran in the North.
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I remember in the old Polo on the way back from college there was a back lane where I would open it up a bit (for want of a less ironic term) and would from time to time be involuntarily involved in a game of Chicken. Stroppy blonde driver of X5 lived in big and only house on said back road and of course she therefore owned it. Little hatchback can take such a road at speed without intimidating others; a big 4x4 can't. Was worse when she got a new Range Rover...
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