Re: scoffin & choking

[Jerry Chyo <jerryc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adam wrote:
>  I could hardly believe your little rant when I read it in the digest.  
>I scoffed at your mention of hondas versus bimmers.  I choked on the 
>comparison of my BMW to a Mustang GT.  

Scoff and choke away.  Your little 318i would get beat by either.  And
you're right, it was a little rant.

>     Sure for a lot cheaper you an ride off the lot in a  Mustang but 
>look at yourself.  You would be in the crowd of rednecks throwin' chicken 
>bones out the window and spittin' dip on the dash.  You could affix a 
>Dale Earnhardt sticker to the bumper, blast some Dixie Chicks and with 
>the money you saved buy tickets to the nearest monster truck rally.  You 
>would then buy a gun rack, a John Deer hat and join the NRA.

Actually a pretty funny response if you don't take into consideration that
you have just offended half of the United States in one fashion or another.

>     And a Honda?  Sure it can go as fast, it only weighs several hundred 
>pounds.  I'm sure you would feel real safe riding down the road in this 
>oversized Pepsi can on wheels.  At least in my BMW I would survive in a 
>car wreck over 50 miles an hour.  And you wouldn't have that much money 
>left.  When I read in Car and Driver that the new Accords well equipped 
>were well over $20,000, I went insane.  To think that for $20,000 I would 
>buy a soapbox derby race car over a Bimmer.  You've got to be kidding me? 

I would put money on the fact that your chances of survival in your Bimmer
are not that much better if you are going 50 MPH.  If you have a head (or
slightly) on, your dead in either car.  If you wreck by yourself around a
turn or something, your chances are probably about the same.  I've had 5
Bimmers and I do understand your stance on safety, but I have also had
Honda's, Toyota's and big American cars.  If your chances of surviving a
head on in a Bimmer is 5 in 100 and your chances are 4 in 100 in a Honda,
either way your probably dead.  BMW would market this as 20% safer than a
Honda.  Don't let it give you a false sense of security though.
 
>     Jerry, maybe you should get your head out of the sand and check out 
>the new Bimmers.  For what better way can you spend your money than to 
>get sex appeal, performance, confidence, and power all in one.  The 
>Germans got it right man.  Keep praising those shitty cars.  I'll gladly 
>take your M5 off your hands.

I think you need to grow up.  My post was not an attack on BMW, nor praise
for any other make.  You have gotten so into having 'The Ultimate Driving
Machine" that you can't see the forest through the tree's.  There are
plenty of other cars out there.  BMW makes a great car (evidenced by the
fact that I have two and will be adding another shortly).  Other's have
great cars.  I like BMW's because they make me feel good.  I don't knock
other car's because they aren't BMW's.

BTW, you are NOT the kind of person I would ever let NEAR my car, much less
sell it too.  You would probably get an M and start scoffing and choking
about the simple "Non-M" car's.  This is the type of snobbery that makes me
scoff and choke.

Have a nice day.

Jerry Chyo
'88 M5
'72 tii

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