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Originally Posted by Quicksilver
That may be true for some folks. However I just bought a 2006 530i. The money I paid for it i could have bought 2 American cars. Why didn't i? Was it because $1500-$2000 of every car goes to paying the union members health care and pension for the rest of their lives? NO. I didn't find anything that i thought measured up to my dollar. Why not just build a better product that people are willing to buy then you can pay your bills and stop whining about what it's costing you to do business. I agree that American Auto Makers Need to pull together their business model but it's all a lot of talk until you make a product that someone wants to buy.
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I'm not following you. You paid 2x what an American manufacturer would charge you for a car because why? What percentage of the US population do you think can afford to spend, what? almost $70k when all is said and done, on a car, when their average income is somewhere in the $50k's?
People pay 2x as much because, well there's no nice way to put it, because they like the status symbol of it. Reliability being equal, there is no reason to spend more than $20k on a car these days, unless people want the 'extras'. Don't get me wrong, I like buying higher end cars myself, i'm not throwing stones in a glass house, but to deny the facts that most people buy BMW, DC/MB, Audi, Ferrari etc etc, isn't because they need basic transportation, it's for a lot of intangible reasons that none of us like to admit because it makes us look shallow and prideful.