This right here. I am 31 and bought my BMW secondhand after the BMW dealer basically laughed me out the door. Bought a 135is instead and am happier with it than I would have been with the 2 series.

Also cross winds can be brutal in the desert, I was just driving down from southern Utah yesterday in an 80mph zone with 45+mph gusts coming cross the road, I had trouble holding 80 in the rented Nissan pathfinder I was driving tbh.

I got a similar treatment when I was shopping for a ZL1 back in 2012. I was 24 at the time, but I had (have) a great job and no student loan debt. I was setting up appointments with various dealerships around town to show them exactly what I wanted to order as well as negotiate price and just gauge if they even had…

I has a similar experience to you. I’m 27 but look 24 maybe and pulled into BMW with my nissan alitma and didn’t even get a look. I played with every car on the floor, walked around, tried to make eye contact and looked for a receptionist. Eventually I went into an office and asked if I could be helped, they assured…

Yeah so everything’s fine.

As long as your tires are rated for the speed and properly inflated, I do not believe that you will increase the risk of a flat tire by any appreciable amount due to going faster. A flat is going to be due to hitting some sort of road debris, which is going to result in you potentially being stranded in the middle of…

Airbags already deployed, if it fell the driver was in for a hell of a hurt.

You don’t get to choose which way you land...

And if it lands wheels down, he’s probably going to have some spine/neck damage and lose some limb use. Cars are not designed to aborb impact from the ground like that... just google about people suffering broken vertebrae from going over sweet jumps in their lifted trucks.

Hard to say. There was an incident in Milwaukee a few months ago where a pickup truck went up and over, falling a similar distance. It didn’t end well for the driver.

compelling point mate... in my wee country you’re never more than 5 minutes away from something... so dying of exposure hadnt occurred to me

tom cruise did it on purpose in Ghost Protocol

My trucks top speed is 85mph. At 80mph my fuel economy would drop to around 5mpg compared to 15mpg at 60mph

Went to a Audi/VW dealer, no one would talk to me or my friend and were the only customers in the whole place. I announced our credit scores walking out the door. All the sudden talking around the new A8 wasn’t so important.

And if I went 80 in VA, I’d be charged with a misdemeanor reckless driving.

Came here to post this.

My guess is that you are not Asian. If you looked like an asian kid in his 20s, the dealership will treat you like you are going to buy two loaded M6 @MSRP price.

I had almost the same experience in 2005. Except opposite. I was looking at GTO, Z4, Boxster. I was at Ritzel Porsche (Now Norwell Porsche). Nobody would talk to me so I sat in a Boxster to check out the fit finish and my butt fit. I basically got thrown out and went next door to BMW Gallery Norwell (now BMW Gallery…

Had a similar situation. I was coming out of a 2005 G35x and went to the BMW dealer - told him I wanted a 328ix coupe and my basic lease parameters. He cam back, asking for an additional $3k out of pocket, and an extra $120 a month. I asked why.

Indeed this happens, buddy was looking for an A4 so I drove him there, I had just left work and had the suit tie and nice haircut- buddy does something from home and can look like a computer troglodyte, of course all the staff want to help me while my buddy waves a sack of money around- we ended up going to a place…