Comments on: 2011 BMW 1 Series prototype spied

By: Class-Less

Class-Less — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:33 +0000

Really Alex, you dont live in the real world at all.
Do Mercedes make vans ?
Go hunt some fox’s.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:29:51 +0000

Class-Less, I do apologise. Uncouth was uncalled for. However, it is the stereotype of a ute driver and the proudest of ute drivers are even happy with this stereotype and it’s exactly what BMW, Audi or Mercedes would be thinking if they were ever to consider a ute.

By: Class-less

Class-less — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:30:17 +0000

Wheelnut, in my humble opinion, someone that starts insults or personal attacks isn’t trying to make themselves more important or intelligent really.
I think that your comment makes you sound a bit dumb, sorry for the insult.

By: Class-less

Class-less — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:26:29 +0000

Alex, 1 of my vehicles is a ute, and I object to you calling ute drivers uncouth.Might I suggest you go back to where you fit in, I assume up there in the higher realms of the class system of the UK

By: Missile and nut hater

Missile and nut hater — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:21:16 +0000

Alex has got it completely correct,” KNOWN ” not assumed.

We know lots about you because we understand the human psyche, we uderstand that some people feel so un-important in the real world that they need to have a voice somewhere.

No-one is trying to appear more superior, what you have indeed described is your own inferiority complex, and you have done this to every reader of your comment, so well done for exposing yourself.

By: Wheelnut™

Wheelnut™ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:28:37 +0000

Alex – you’re right its not the first time people have said that about us on this site

However; I wouldn’t say that its what people have KNOWN for ages.. Its more what people have ASSUMED.
They don’t really know anything about us personally [what we do where we live etc] But; because they don’t agree with or in some cases understand our comments; they make assumptions not to mention the personal insults attacks to try and make them appear to be more superior or intelligent than us..

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:09:03 +0000

Allergic to nuts and missiles {}{} TM, your stating exactly what everybody else has known for ages so that kind of makes you boring as well.

By: Wheelnut™

Wheelnut™ — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:02:54 +0000

Alex – you say that utes are impractical.. I’d like to see you try to fit a Trail bike or a display case in a 3 series sedan or Porsche 911.. so they do have their place.

The other thing is given that BMW Merc-Benz etc have no problem cutting the roof off of a coupe.. why don’t they cut the roof off of one of their wagons as well?

Having said that I do agree with your comments regarding the [hinged] hard tonneau covers.. a much more practical option is what’s known as a Roll-A-Back tonneau cover – it works just like a roller door for your garage; is remote controlled and locks in 3 different positions

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:16 +0000

Just to say, when reading back my last comment, I didn’t mean to insult ute drivers. I just think it strange to call the X1, a car that may well sell half a million units by the end of it’s life, a waste of time, money and resources and say that a ute that would probably have a market of about 20,000 units a year if even that a good idea.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:16:19 +0000

Wheelnut, utes are horrible and impractical. Most of the ones that I see these days have a hard cover covering the tray, in other words, no more practical than the boot of a sedan. Why would BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche or any brand like them ever make a ute? It would just bring an uncouth class and type of person that these brands theoretically don’t want driving their cars.
You might see a Lexus truck one day, that would sell well in America, but I don’t think you will ever see any of your other listed brands making utes and in my opinion, that’s a very good thing if only because you’d complain that it was too small and girly. Apart from anything, the only real market would be Australia seeing as Americans buy trucks and Africans don’t trust European cars and there’s not a massive market for them anywhere else.

I do very much agree about your thoughts on the X1 though. It does seem a bit pointless. But it has a considerably larger market than a BMW 1 Series ute ever would.