Cars & Transportation

Exotic car buyers

Cars & Transportation

Posted by: Grahame

29th Jun 2009 11:47pm

What defines a person who buys a Ferrari as opposed to a Maserati? What about a person who buys an Aston Martin? What about a Bentley? Or a Jaguar? Or a Lamborghini?
lpullman
  • 8th Dec 2010 05:10pm

I thought about your first sentence for a while and I don't think you need a state controlled evironment for that. I think the big car makers would cheerfully reduce their lines and rebadge the same floor pan if they thought they'd get away with it. Remeber the Mazda 323 / Ford Laser? Holden Apollo / Toyota Camri? GMs biggest selling car in the US these days is a rebadged Hyundai (or is it Daiwoo?)

I also don't think many of us made the choice, more luck of the draw. And I'll put a big question mark over "imperialistic" (that word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means)

Now as for being for show, that's one of the things that really annoy me: people who never drive them. For Christ sake! That what the thing is for! I've put many thousand kilometres on every vehicle I've owned - most on the exotics 'cause they're more fun to drive.

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