The customs of luxury car owners

[davide405]

@anon21100188

But in any event, if you see a grocery cart rolling toward someone else’s Mercedes in the parking lot, you still grab the cart instead of your phone to film it right?

Mercedes? Yeah, I’d probably grab the cart.

But BMW? Fuck ‘em.

[IronEdithKidd]

Thanks, @orenwolf for splitting this off the bad indoor pool idea thread! You’ve been pretty busy today.

[anon61221983]

Maybe not a luxury car, but I think it has that perception… and there is some amount of virtue signaling in driving one, I’d say. Also, apparently lots of prius drivers become obsessed with driving in a way that maximizes their fuel consumption…

But this is yet more anecdotal evidence on my part.

[Heraclito]

@anon61221983

When you see tags that say Fulton, Dekalb or Gwinnett, you’re like HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOU’RE GETTING OFF HERE MILES BACK, ASSHOLE!

Worst drivers in Georgia: In God We Trust.

[anon61221983]

LOL! We need to run a study!

Those just irritate me, honestly.

[ficuswhisperer]

It’s not luxury car (in fact it’s quite Spartan in most regards and it’s interior materials are shockingly cheap feeling) but for quite some time it was a status symbol. These days I think that mantle has been taken over by Tesla.

[SheiffFatman]

@anon73430903

I’m not saying that BMW or Merc drivers are nice, just that Audi drivers are worse

Tests on Audi cars find they contain tossers

[RickMycroft]

I haven’t seen enough of them on the road to form an impression.

What happens if you try to steal a Rolls-Royce hood ornament?

[LurkingGrue]

@ficuswhisperer

These days I think that mantle has been taken over by Tesla.

Yeah, My image of a Prius is just an economy car where you can get really good gas mileage (Compared to the norm).

[Medievalist]

@anon61221983

there is some amount of virtue signaling in driving one, I’d say. Also, apparently lots of prius drivers become obsessed with driving in a way that maximizes their fuel consumption…

Totally agree. I bought a Prius the first year they were available, drove it until I totalled it (hit a deer at high speed on the I-95/295 interchange) and then bought another one, this time a plug-in model, which I just finished paying off.

In places like California, where there is a big socio-political divide and plenty of money, some of the most… um… unpleasantly sententious? people are those driving Priuses (see also, rolling coal, for the other extreme of that divide).

And even if a Prius driver is less smugly selfrighteous than the stereotype, more interested in driving considerately than virtue signalling, the temptation to hypermile can be very hard to resist. I do it whenever I can without inconveniencing others, because I am a giant cheapskate (100+ mpg or bust!).

I think people driving EVs and hybrids who are inconsiderate of people in ICE cars aren’t much different, psychologically, from those jerks who blow their horns and gun their engines whenever they pass a horse and buggy.