Pagoda SL Group
Off Topic => Other cars => Topic started by: merclassic on April 24, 2022, 22:11:43
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Stuttgart or Munchen ?
https://blogs.ubc.ca/chrisannekouzas/2010/10/12/%E2%80%9Cbeat-the-bends%E2%80%9D-bmw-vs-mercedes-a-case-for-comparative-advertising/
current URLS for above article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcHocs4CA8A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPrlsJYwKY
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no, but a bimmer might
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thank you - every day is indeed a school day ;)
comments section in URL below make for interesting reading :
https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/01/16/bimmer-beemer-beamer/
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yet more mischief-making from those folk from munchen... :o
https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2019/05/24/classic-bmw-ad-pokes-fun-at-retiring-mercedes-benz-ceo-video/
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in the early 1960s, my wife's parents had a 220 Fintail sedan that was destroyed in a head head-on collision with a runaway dump truck in the Andes. Her mother and father both survived the head-on and that sent them off the edge of the road and down a ravine. Bela Barenyi's crumple zones worked and they both are still with us today aged 98 and 100. There is a photo of my wife and her little brother and sister with that car in Pagoda Style.
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no, but a bimmer might
My understanding always was that the car was a "beemer" and the motorcycle was a "bimmer" :-\
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So what ... as long as neither one is a "bummer". ;D 🤣
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ha ha - indeed ;)
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Christopher White Revisits the Site of His Infamous Car Crash… But This Time the Car’s Driving Him
https://lbbonline.com/news/christopher-white-revisits-the-site-of-his-infamous-car-crash-but-this-time-the-cars-driving-him
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My understanding always was that the car was a "beemer" and the motorcycle was a "bimmer" :-\
Your understanding is reversed. Take it from someone who bought a bimmer in 1972, a 2002 new, and drives a bimmer now.
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I think it is a matter of opinion or where you live. I do not own a BMW car, but 4 BMW motorcycles and I am a member of the BMW MOA. There they all concur with my understanding... 8)
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Groups of individuals have been known to be wrong too.
https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/01/16/bimmer-beemer-beamer/ coincidentally a pic of a 2002 just like I bought in 1972
https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/bimmer-beamer-nickname-origin.html
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I stand corrected! I will change the vanity plates on my bikes! ;)
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I stand corrected! I will change the vanity plates on my bikes! ;)
And now you can set others straight!