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      11-25-2022, 11:28 AM   #1
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Average BMW owner

What does an average BMW owner look like?

ex : Type of hobbies? Work a 9-5? Introvert/extrovert? Stand 6'10 tall? Single or married? Fashion style?

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The picture pretty much sums it up, but really I do not believe there is a "typical" BMW owner. They make so many different vehicles across a broad price range.
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The picture pretty much sums it up, but really I do not believe there is a "typical" BMW owner. They make so many different vehicles across a broad price range.
Haha true. Curious to know who they are though (if they're on the forums). Can maybe find some commonalities
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This is the strangest question I've read in a long time.
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This is the strangest question I've read in a long time.
Hahaha. Feel free to answer it
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This is me...
Thought you only drove astons
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What does an average BMW owner look like?

ex : Type of hobbies? Work a 9-5? Introvert/extrovert? Stand 6'10 tall? Single or married? Fashion style?

I’m sure the reality is far different than the stereotype.
I’d be interested to see though if others will list what they do.

Marital status: Married, prior to bmws no kids, now 1

Height: 6’

Age: 43, first bmw at 31

Current bmw/s: e85,e86,e82

Hobbies: living history reenactment, camping, hiking, backpacking, gardening, various sword play, shooting sports(archery, skeet, pistol, rifle, flintlocks), musician (bass, bodhran, bombard, bagpipes both highland and uilleann, piano) poetry, recreational motor sports/autox/OTD

Type of work: 2p-10p Machinist

Fashion: anything from sweats, to kilt if I feel like dressing fancy like, but most important practical and comfy. Beard is anywhere from trimmed to gruff but never clean shaven, I’d have to shave 2 times a day for that. Not to mention the Mrs. hates it if I were clean shaven so major bonus for me there haven’t been clean shaven since I was 14
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I’m sure the reality is far different than the stereotype.
I’d be interested to see though if others will list what they do.

Marital status: Married, prior to bmws no kids, now 1

Height: 6’

Age: 43, first bmw at 31

Current bmw/s: e85,e86,e82

Hobbies: living history reenactment, camping, hiking, backpacking, gardening, various sword play, shooting sports(archery, skeet, pistol, rifle, flintlocks), musician (bass, bodhran, bombard, bagpipes both highland and uilleann, piano) poetry, recreational motor sports/autox/OTD

Type of work: 2p-10p Machinist

Fashion: anything from sweats, to kilt if I feel like dressing fancy like, but most important practical and comfy. Beard is anywhere from trimmed to gruff but never clean shaven, I’d have to shave 2 times a day for that. Not to mention the Mrs. hates it if I were clean shaven so major bonus for me there haven’t been clean shaven since I was 14
Bagpipes and Kilts! Hell yeah
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Single hahaha
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Ah yes, a dating thread. I'm going wait for a few more entries before making my move ;-)
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Ah yes, a dating thread. I'm going wait for a few more entries before making my move ;-)
don't wait too long
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Coulda just said A/S/L
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Coulda just said A/S/L
soo... ASL?
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I have an average BMW stereotype in my head, and I don't fit it. I'm more like the average Japanese sports car fan that recognized that the OG F87 M2 is the best thing going at this time, all things considered.
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I have an average BMW stereotype in my head, and I don't fit it. I'm more like the average Japanese sports car fan that recognized that the OG F87 M2 is the best thing going at this time, all things considered.
I'm a convert from another type of car as well (imports). I'm not like my stereotypical image of a BMW owner at all.

I'm in a BMW because I got to a point in life where I could get whatever I wanted and looked at everything in the price band I set for myself. Made a list of must haves, and strong wants, and other important factors. This coupled with a particular quality and value expectation. After a long process of elimination, I landed on BMW. After living with my choice for a while I feel I got exactly what I was after.
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I have an average BMW stereotype in my head, and I don't fit it. I'm more like the average Japanese sports car fan that recognized that the OG F87 M2 is the best thing going at this time, all things considered.
I agree far more jdm click bait out there. I was never a bmw fan until seeing Golden Eye as my dad was a huge Bond fan and seeing the z3 in it. When we were laid out with covid month ago was glad the kiddo kept wanting to binge watch Initial D, in fact had my MK3 Supra at the same time I got my e85 so I get a chuckle on the Supra boards at those that hate the collaboration maybe I was foreshadowing.

The average bmw owner I agree isn’t here. But some of the average bmw enthusiasts are. The one go to service guy I see at the dealer by me when I have to go in even for just picking up parts, got to know him well and he even says the average customer now these days only care about the roundel and social status not caring if it’s the ultimate driving machine or not.

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I'm a convert from another type of car as well (imports). I'm not like my stereotypical image of a BMW owner at all.

I'm in a BMW because I got to a point in life where I could get whatever I wanted and looked at everything in the price band I set for myself. Made a list of must haves, and strong wants, and other important factors. This coupled with a particular quality and value expectation. After a long process of elimination, I landed on BMW. After living with my choice for a while I feel I got exactly what I was after.

I kind of look for those "overall the best for the money" type of cars. My '05 STi was easily the best overall car I've ever had (in a long list of JDM cars), and I thought nothing could knock it off its perch. I was wrong. The OG M2 is even better, and that's saying something.
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I kind of look for those "overall the best for the money" type of cars. My '05 STi was easily the best overall car I've ever had (in a long list of JDM cars), and I thought nothing could knock it off its perch. I was wrong. The OG M2 is even better, and that's saying something.
Exactly, me too. Its a series of compromises, For what I was after, the bmw clearly compromised the least.

My previous daily driver (non BMW) was a series of similar compromises, but with a much smaller budget.
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There is no typical type these days. BMW went from making the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' to making 'Cars for the People, Soccer Moms and Millennials'. The once pompous BMW owner stereotype is now likely diffused by all of the masses who are buying them.
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When I'm not going to work, I wear surfing and outdoor branded clothes along with old tshirts and jeans, so I probably don't fit whatever the stereotype is -- a bunch of uppity people who don't use turn signals?.
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