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Great thread. I am glad you started it, Frupal! I was the other person that Frupal was communicating with.
Cars are the single biggest material purchase we make (homes are more in line with real estate as opposed to a material purchase). I've observed the psychological factors that contribute to the purchase of cars since I was in grade school. Every decision we make is a reflection of our personality. Our personality is a culmination of environmental influences, experiences, and genetic predisposition. The 6-series is an interesting car. Some view it as an impractical, overpriced, and problematic car. Others view it as shear beauty. I found that fans of the 6 series are very technologically or scientifically inclined but are also rooted in some type of art. This might help explain their affection to the 6 series which is a amalgamation of technology, performance, engineering, and one of the best expressions of automotive art any modern daily driver has seen. Based on some of the replies here, it seems that many of the owners have some type of technological or science background and are also artistically or musically inclined (or vice versa). Even though this is a small sample size, it does support the idea that 6-series owners are little different. Their left and right brain work in synchrony. We don't conform to the standard norms and we kind of march to the beat of our own drummer. Thoughts? |
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Idk about all that! But I have had a fun life. What I’ve noticed is that almost all of the owners have interesting jobs or are creating their own work. Just as I thought! 6 series owners are a breed apart!
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Well said! And thanks for planting the seed for this thread! I don’t know what I could add to what you’ve laid out so well! Cheers! |
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As you suggest, I think they're targeting those people who are technically inclined enough to appreciate those aspects of the car, but the "emotional" aspects, especially at a $20k - $30k+ premium over a 5 series, require an owner who's going to be "a little different" as you put it.
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Like most of you, I have my 6 series because the overall package to me was unbeatable. Achingly beautiful to look at, exciting to drive without being terrifying and a safe, fast and comfortable DD. Its all I could ever want in a DD at this point. I concur great thread Frupal! |
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Yeah I suppose you could say that, although I'm sure engineers would laugh at the kind of math most of us do. I may be an outlier to this anyway since I've at one point or other been interested in just about everything lol
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Corporate Finance Team Lead for a Fortune 500 Tech company, lots of spreadsheet work, meetings, and general bureaucracy hahaha, but hey it puts gas in my car and still in my mid 20s, cant complain
All younglings in my team of 6, love the atmosphere Great thread |
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I work in IT and am a client manager which most days is like Tom from Office Space bouncing between customers, our quotedesk, techs, accounts, etc but also selling some super cool projects and getting new clients onboard, handling relationship with vendors etc.
We have ~500 businesses we look after and they range in size from about 10 to about 500 staff across every industry so there is a huge variety in the work we do. The M6 is super uncommon here as it is 1 of 1 facelift F13 M6 and 1 of 1 comp pack F06/12/13 M6 full stop and 1 of 16 sold here ever. I do sometimes park down the road when I'm going to see new customers but I also have fantastic chats with clients about cars, go for drives with them, have even been to a track day with a client.
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I had to add a little information to why I fell in love with the 6 series. I worked 18 years for Bang & Olufsen in various positions for the North American NSO. During one stint I was the key account manager for North American Automotive where is spent most my time promoting the sound systems in Audi, AMG Mercedes, Aston Martin and BMW. I spent a fair amount of time in dealerships teaching salesmen and general managers that people truly would spend $4-6K to have a really great sound system and how to present and demo the system to reinforce the investment and create value.
I have owned many 5 series and when they announced they were rolling out the newly redesigned 6 series and that it would feature our high end B&O system I was of course intrigued. I was fortunate enough to be included in the Press launch event out in Santa Barbara back in 2012 where they had roughly 20 cars mostly equipped with our B&O system and I was given the opportunity to speak to the press about the system and the importance of high end audio, amongst the target group. I definitely fell in love with the 6 series that week. A couple years later I was traveling with the BMW training manager in Florida where he had the first 650xdrive GC in the country brought in to use for our trainings. It was debadged since the formal announcement had not been made yet but a few of the really attentive sales people noticed. We were heading back to Fort Lauderdale from West Palm Beach keeping up with the flow of traffic when a Lexus blew by us and my counterpart muttered "no way". He downshifted and we were on the Lexus in seconds, the feel of that raw linear power had me hooked. Unfortunately I had to wait a few more years before I could realize my dream but there's no going back now, picked up my 2014 650GC xdrive fully loaded - B&O system of course - about 2 years ago. |
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