"Imported From Spartanburg"
Published: March 3rd, 2011
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Thanks for the big BMW hug! They are so great! Ed, next time have them buy an ad.
Good reminder that Detroit isn't the sole city in the US involved in motor vehicle manufacture and thus not the only one deserving our allegiance, sympathy or business. It is a competition and many of the cold rust belt cities have two anchors around their torso, one shaped like a union hall and the other shaped like Tammany hall.
And a third shaped like a wee little brain
Maybe it's just me, but I want my BMW to be built in the depths of the Black Forest by anal-retentive, humorless Germans. The whole lure of the BMW brand is to get a slice of the European, high-end driving lifestyle....and throwing in some wholesome Americans ruins that aspirational element a bit. This type of angle might work for Kia, but people buy BMWs because they are foreign, not in spite of it. Paying too much attention to what us American's want is exactly what's turned me off the brand in the first place, not bonded me closer like this ad wants me to do. 50 different types of Crossovers/SUV's, a porky Gran Turismo instead of a wagon, and a general turning away from the driving experience, is to me not a good thing.