I couldnt agree more with you. I am forever saying "why would they do that" but that is what i love about them i have 3 633 plus a m6 and i will keep them till i die. Bmw's make me so mad sometimes but that is what i love about them. They make me think
Teh E36 M3 wrote: Pricks on the inside vs pricks on the outside. Some of us are professors or politicians, and some of us just get the berkeleying job done.
Now, now, keep it civil and we won't have to bring up the thing about brit cars being for folks with low self esteem - thinking they don't deserve a working car... 
I love the style of the brit cars. I love the engineering of the germans - even when it's a little bit crazy-making. After about 2006 I'm a bunch less enthused about them - but could be my garage skills aren't up to the newer stuff yet.
oldtin wrote: ... the thing about brit cars being for folks with low self esteem - thinking they don't deserve a working car... .
My wife agrees with this, though in reverse (British cars will destroy your self esteem). Some days I come in from the garage in a funk muttering about being a useless mechanic, most often when the TR is involved.
oldtin wrote:Teh E36 M3 wrote: Pricks on the inside vs pricks on the outside. Some of us are professors or politicians, and some of us just get the berkeleying job done.Now, now, keep it civil and we won't have to bring up the thing about brit cars being for folks with low self esteem - thinking they don't deserve a working car...
What happens when you've got one of each?
schizophrenia or bipolar disorder - waffling between insecuries and raging asshatery - I have two german cars, 2 brit cars, one with a mericun drivetrain, a brit bike, a japanese bike and a japanese suv.. One brit car is in little pieces, the other is tucked away for winter. One of the kraut cars just puked it's brain - there's a negative on an old bmw - anything breaks and you're waiting for parts to ship. God help me, my daily driver this week is a 928 in Chicago in winter.
So it's perfectly normal for me to feel like a prick in the BMW, feel smug in the MG (when under its own power), and relax in the Subaru knowing nothing is going to break.
Can't wait to get my first Brit bike- dummy me passed up a '72 Commando in unrestored, but great shape for $4500 a few years back.
tr8todd wrote: I'd like to pass on an observation to you guys and see what you think. If any of you have been to my house you would already know that there are cars everywhere and just about anything you would want to work on said cars. All are Brit cars except for the 2002 race car. Occasionally someone who will come by to buy a part or look at a car, etc. Whenever that person is a Brit car guy, they just walk around making small talk and generally acting like no big deal. Whenever a BMW guy comes by, it's like a kid in a candy store. Their eyes light up, millions of questions, can't get them to leave kind of thing. Is it just normal that all brit car guys have half a dozen cars and a killer shop, or is it just normal that BMW guys are used to paying someone else to do the work for them?
You started a VS thread!!!!!!
You must berkeleying die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is all.
My experience is that the BMW owners = pricks (Like all stereotypes, not fair) started with the e36/e34 series. The e30/e28s had a lot of cool modern stuff, but IMO still packed the soul of a classic. By contrast, virtually all British cars except a select few were out of business well before then. So on one hand you have the last vestiges of empire, versus a growing one. The requisite mental differences to embrace each way of thinking is the heart of the question.
errr. What was the question again?
When I was auto-crossing more, the coolest, most talkative, least judgmental and most into the experience and story telling people were the BMW drivers. I've never found BMW drivers to be the people they are often suggested to be.
People who just buy the car for the maker or badge are just consumers anyway, and they are fickle on top of it, so I never really encounter those types in my travels, much less have a conversation about cars or have the opportunity to gleam much about their personality.
Interesting observation though (OP).
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