Re: BMW vs Honda

[Deepak Munjal <dmunjal@xxxxxxxxx>]

>      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? 
>  
>      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.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adam Mull
> Hampden-Sydney College
> '95 318i

For what it's worth, if I had only $20K to spend, I would buy a
Honda Accord (or maybe a used 325i) over a 318i everytime.  You
can't really use the word power and 318i in the same sentence.

Unfortunately, new BMWs really shine only after you spend about $30K.
Under that, you don't get much car for the money.  Over that amount,
you can get a car that competes with anything else at twice the price.
You have to compare one car against another car, not marque to marque.

The 323i is a start in the right direction, though.  But for $27,000,
you get hubcaps!  Who would have thought, hubcaps on a new BMW!

Deepak

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