German Car Zone

Oh yes BMW drivers....

I don't know what it is about them (No offense to BMW drivers here) they always dress "Half formal/Half Casual". Then they always seem cocky as shit. It irritates me to death.

Mercedes-Benz drivers usually seem different. Some I see in Suits all the time...other jeans t-shirts. Most of time their more "social" then BMW drivers.

Matter of fact, I went to a Mercedes-Benz event "Love Tour" they had a few years back in Maryland (USA). Everyone was dress in sports wear, jeans t-shirts and pretty much dressed down.

Then I went to a BMW event in the same area. Everyone was in dress shirts and slacks talk all high and mighty about their everyday lives and their BMW. Even a few racial jokes...but I won't even get into that.

So in a way the car does seem to make the person in some respects. On the other hand certain people are drawn to certain types of cars and feel they need to "Play the role".

Now I'm not saying that everyone that drives a BMW or Mercedes-Benz acts that way, but it is what I have observed in the US.

I don't understand how or why we should "respect" material objects? That's the dumbest sh!t in the world.

This whole goes back to the thing about aristocracy and British Imperialisms rules of: Just because you're a british citizen and wear a suit doesn't make you on par with actual Brits. That is why until the day I die, I will be different and be proud of the fact that I am. I hate this snobby ass attitude and people who embody it. I hate this "holier than thou" mindset.

Everyone is unique and has their own sense of style, ideas, etc. Just because you don't think something is right doesn't make it so. We can't respect other human beings yet I have to pay my respects to a f__king name or a symbol of a company? Do you know what RR's true "heritage" is? Back in the days it was pretty much: if you're not royalty or british then F__k You!. Please, don't ask me to represent a brand that was racist but accepts everyone now because the economy is global now.

Here, I'll tell you guys a story of Brand Snobbery. An MB salesman in San Francisco told me this story about his buddy.

His buddy worked for Porsche dealership in Oakland. One day a dude comes to the dealership with long uncombed hair, hawaiian shirt, shorts and flip-flops. None of the salesman want to help him out, but he finally gets the manager to give him a salesman. He starts walking around and asking about some of the cars and then gradually get's into the more expensive cars (this is early 90s btw). The salesman kind of starts ignoring him but he finally finds a car and says he wants to test drive it.

The salesman asks him if he is serious and the dude was like "yeah". After the test drive the guy likes the car and asks about buying it. The salesman just looks at him and is like "you? you want to buy this? Do you even have money? The financing for someone like you will be hard to get." The dude says, don't worry I brought my checkbook and the salesman laughs. Then the guy gets annoyed and asks for the manager. Manager and him go into the manger's room and a few mins later he walks out with the keys and leaves with the brand new car. The salesman asks the manager wt-f was that all about and the manager says "You're a dumbass" Salesman is like why? Who was that guy? The manager says that "he is one of Metallica band members" and walks away. Since then, the guy has NEVER given a crap about looks and talks to EVERYONE who comes to him.

I don't know if this is true, but the guy was pretty serious. In other words, doesn't matter what you look like and especially what you wear. If you got money, you can buy whatever you want and do whatever you want with it.

Ditto.

As I've stated, when you dress, be impressionable yet always presentable.

And you can ever go wrong in jeans.

Even if it's with a dress shirt.

I've mentioned this story before about the Brisbane auto show in Australia. I went to the BMW stand to checkout the new 335i at the time because I was buying one for my wife. There must have been something on because 320i owners in their cheap tweed jackets where hustling and bustling around sipping wine and devouring nibbles. I on the other hand had changed from work attire to casual attire. I walked up to the salesmen at the show and he blatantly denied to show the interior until I dangled my 5 Series keys in front of him... I later found out he was the head salesmen at my dealership so when it came time to purchase a new car I went to the Mercedes Benz and bought an E500 instead. He has since left so I can return to my BMW dealership in peace.

This is so stupid. If anybody judges you on the car you drive then he is an ignorant biased fool. You are who you made yourself out to be, though your accomplishments, strives and struggles not by what car you drive or even by what you dress up in when driving. It is always important to keep a positive and unbiased view about everyone you meet because you never know who they truly are. Some people like to keep a casual simple look and act no matter how big the bank account reads. Some people are just shy and don't like to carry a big pose, with fancy cars, houses and ultimately clothes. Maybe it's because they don't feel like they can live to the expectations their creating to others around them seeing them presented that particular way or maybe because the way they dress can have a pressure on them to confirm and pretending in being someone else than they ultimately are. So any fashion that creates this pressure on you to become somebody else than who you are, not being yourself is only going to cause you stress or discomfort or maybe simply you just do not like it. So back to my point, nobody should ever be judged on who they are by simply how they temporarily present themselves though an automobile or dress style.

I'll wear what ever the hell I please in MY damn car. Whether its jeans and dirty work boots I wore at a cattle branding that day in a Rolls Royce, or a Nice suit in a 1968 VW Bug. I'll wear what I please, what others think is irrelevant

Judging by appearance is the way to go. You are right in 99 out of 100 cases

...or, you could have an open mind.

I certainly won't dress for my car. That said, clearly wearing dirty clothes in a Rolls-Royce is a bit out of place, it doesn't suit the image of a Rolls-guy, but it's your car and your clothes.

No need to be elegant or fashionable just to drive your car!

Besides, like Oscar Wilde said, "fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what others wear".

It's not about respecting the object itself, it's about respecting the people who created it. If I were a craftsman making Rolls Royce interiors, I wouldn't be too happy to see some punk in dirty clothes making a mess of something I'd worked my ass off to make. Mass-market stuff is a different thing altogether.