Those Lexus/Audi/Acura/Mercedes christmas commercials….

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Do people really buy cars at Christmas time? I work at an auto factory (tier 1 supplier) and we always slow down before Christmas. This year's looking like no exception.

And I've never heard of anyone buying a $70,000 auto as a Christmas gift, like in those commercials. But then again, I don't hang with the Bill Gates-type crowd :embarrassed:




 
I went to high school with a girl who's dad bought her a new car for Christmas one year.

Their house/driveway was right off the road and it was parked outside the house that morning with a huge red bow and ribbon on it.
 
My family is in the "giant bow" business. Business is always booming this time of year. :grin:

I don't know anyone that bought a car specifically as a X-mas present. Usually, the car purchase is driven (no pun intended) by need.
 
Meanwhile, at the average family Christmas.

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How the fuck am I going to have a December to remember without a new Lexus parked in the driveway?
 
Yeah, I can't even imagine. Even my wife, who would love a new Mercedes, commented that the idea seems stupid. "Wouldn't you want to pick out the car you get yourself?", being her main logic.

I wonder how many people actually do this kind of thing. And, as Tig's post suggests, how many of those who do can actually afford it.
 
Just what I want to give my wife.
A $600 a month car payment that I will be responsible for the next 5 years.

Fuck that shit.
 
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My ex had a Mercedes GL-450 SUV, but traded it after the perpetual visits to the shop.

That said, my former landlord and neighbor survived a head-on crash (55 MPH + 55 MPH) with an 18-wheeler in one. He broke his leg and his wife broke her collar bone, that's it. Most vehicles would have been a tomb.
 
Lerxst said:
I went to high school with a girl who's dad bought her a new car for Christmas one year.

Their house/driveway was right off the road and it was parked outside the house that morning with a huge red bow and ribbon on it.
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And later that Christmas night.....Daddy silently crept into her room........
 
Every one of those commercials makes me want to kick someone in the taint. Especially the Lexus ones.


Aside from the sheer douchebaggery, it seems like an huge advertising expense aimed at a market share far too small to offset that expense even if everyone of the targeted douchebags ran out and bought a new leather and wood trimmed, overpriced Camry to park in the driveway of their 8,000 sq ft winter retreat cottage.

Fuckin' assholes.

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OGG said:
Every one of those commercials makes me want to kick someone in the taint. Especially the Lexus ones.


Aside from the sheer douchebaggery, it seems like an huge advertising expense aimed at a market share far too small to offset that expense even if everyone of the targeted douchebags ran out and bought a new leather and wood trimmed, overpriced Camry to park in the driveway of their 8,000 sq ft winter retreat cottage.

Fuckin' assholes.

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'tis the season, to be hatin'

Fa, la, la, la, la,....La, la, la...La
 
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I got a 1986 Kawasaki KDX 200 dirt bike for Christmas. It was the Christmas of 1991 and cost $800, but it's one of the most memorable Christmas gifts I've ever received.
 
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