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I wonder which vehicles have the highest amount of drivers (not owners) who have never held actual jobs. I bet Lexus has at least one high ranking model...
I imagine all luxury brands do.
Some people are born with better looks, physical abilities, IQ, personality or character traits, or longevity genes. Some are also fortunate to be at the right place at the right time. Should our society or culture try to compensate for these factors?
This society seems to worship those factors, no compensation needed.
New money would more likely go to the Lexus store. Whether they worked hard, got lucky, or a something else, who knows.
We have a saying in Brazil:
Poor father, bad luck.
Poor father-in-law, stupidity.
I think new rich may be more likely to be insecure and latch to an established brand name for validation. They're the "safe" choice to make to be accepted.
fin doesn't like the RX so selective attention is the norm, but I don't see how or why it would have a higher number of the trophy wife demographic than an ML, XC60, RDX, X3, Evoque, etc.
If anything I'm guessing the Evoque is the one most likely parked outside a costmetic surgery office.
What I typically see in an RX is a mother with a couple of kids running errands or a business professional driving to work.
Of people I know personally that own RX's, we have the following:
A housekeeper who bought it used and whose husband drives a used Highlander
An eye doctor with a healthy practice whose husband drives a beat up Pilot
A self made property developer whose other car is a 15 yo BMW convertible.
None of them are flashy or need to flaunt wealth. Maybe it's a New England thing.
I will just say this - buy what you like, and you only live once. Also, thanks to suicidal economic and trade policies, these are the good old days, so live a little :shades:
I don't know if property development is something one can get into without some kind of help. But that's for another forum, I suppose.
Another friend owned one works for MD Public TV, he's basically John Davis's boss, from MotorWeek. Replaced it with a Highlander Hybrid.
The latter is funny because he has access to the Motorweek fleet, so he brings all sorts of cool cars home, including the Alfa Romeo 8c. :shades:
Stereotypes and assumptions aside, those are the RX owners I know.
How many households are single income nowadays? Even in Potomac most households are dual income.
Dr. Rey from Dr. 90210 had a Porsche and his trophy wife had a Benz GL.
All the Kardashians (sp?) drive european cars, too.
Hef's kept women also - european cars.
TV isn't reality (and the beltway is kind of a fantasy world too). I suspect the layabout set sees the RX as less showy than a big Euro. But then it assumes a new identity.
At least go to the cosmetic center parking lot and survey all the cars. :P
Or show us some solid demographic data, then at least there's something to discuss besides those assumptions.
There's an aesthetic fitness center adjacent to my building. It's a parking lot of RX/ML/X5 along with some Audi wagons.
The "data" you pine for doesn't exist. It is all anecdotal. If someone doesn't like it, they are free to ignore it. They have no other recourse.
In his case started by buying a row house in one of the then less fashionable Boston neighborhoods in 1980. Renovated and sold for a profit. Bought another - same result. Continued buying row houses, multi-family, empty lots, et al and developing them. Got lucky in that the areas he develops in have gentrified. Took a break on his big projects (150 unit developments) and waited for market recovery.
He still goes to each job everyday. Wears work boots, Dickies and isn't afraid to get his hands dirty. Now lives in a leafy Boston western suburb but only because his wife hated her commute 40 miles west of the city.
Apparently Mercedes' consumer research showed them who is buying their cars.
I'm not saying you'll never see an RX in the patient parking lot, just that I don't see why it's always being singled out by you and by lemko.
Maybe the lack of ability to admit the truth makes the product seem pretentious.
You don't have to answer, we already know. :P
It's more than a little ironic, you gotta admit.
You're boiling it down to luck and insinuation?
Why can't you accept that someone could have the cajones to put everything they own on the line to build a successful business? It's a lot easier to criticize those that have done so than it is to actually do it yourself.
Inside Line did a blurb not that long ago.
The List: 10 Models with the Highest Proportion of Female Buyers
Does Gender Affect What Cars We Buy? (WSJ)
It gets more interesting when you look at luxury cars, although this link is out of date.
Luxury Cars most preferred by Women (Gizmodiva)
And a pdf where the C Class makes the list in Chicago for both genders. (chicagobusiness.com)
On a related note, Ferrari/Maserati/Porsche appear first in that 2nd article for the opposite reason.
Wonder what that PDF is measuring? Can't be gender ownership, of course.
It's also pretty much takes money to make money, and it is tough to accept whine or lectures from boomers who were able to make their gold in a much less competitive environment. I can't count the amount I know of locally who have made a little money in real estate by buying in back when wages to mortgages were in a completely different relationship. And then they act like hard working financial geniuses. Family help for down payments and tuition doesn't hurt either.
Luck luck luck.
Feast or famine.
It's not uncommon to see women as the primary bread maker around here. When we had a toddler play group with 5 kids, 2 of the parents were male.
Mmmm, getting back on topic, she's OK with driving the wheels off the Sienna, pretty much.
Encore, Encore! (get it?)
Avalon is the favorite Buick of many folks. Ironically it's more American than some Buicks are (Regal is German, Encore is Korean).
They're really on a roll.
"Toyota's sales fell 7% to 121,937 vehicles in September, with its upscale Lexus brand posting a drop of 34% to 3,792."
Not to mention "The country's auto industry also faces a gloomy outlook in China as a result of anti-Japanese sentiment stemming from a territorial dispute." (WSJ)
The stock is down ~$6 in the last couple of weeks.
Could end up being a good thing - we should less fewer cheap copy cats of Japanese cars there.
Uninhabitable but full of natural gas and the waters around it with potential for oil.
I'm sure someone hit oil a few miles under your house just now.
That whole "dispute" is a weak ruse to cover local developmental issues in China.