schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoRepublicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversedfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square212linkfedilinkarrow-up1674arrow-down124 cross-posted to: latestagecapitalism@lemmy.worldnews@lemmy.worldautomotive@discuss.tchncs.de
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minus-squarestarchylemming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·2 days agobmw is like every fourth car here. you can joke they come without turn signals but its just a run of the mill car brand for all kinds of people only a certain kind of personality gets a porsche
minus-squarescarabic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoThere a similar effect with Mercedes in the US: they mainly export their high-end cars here, not their economy cars. Therefore Americans associate the entire brand with rich assholes. It’s true enough within the US, but may not hold outside it.
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down3·2 days agoThat tracks in America too, but a better example here is pickup trucks.
bmw is like every fourth car here. you can joke they come without turn signals but its just a run of the mill car brand for all kinds of people
only a certain kind of personality gets a porsche
There a similar effect with Mercedes in the US: they mainly export their high-end cars here, not their economy cars. Therefore Americans associate the entire brand with rich assholes. It’s true enough within the US, but may not hold outside it.
That tracks in America too, but a better example here is pickup trucks.