does a beemer really beat a benz ?

[merclassic]

Stuttgart or Munchen ?

https://blogs.ubc.ca/chrisannekouzas/2010/10/12/%E2%80%9Cbeat-the-bends%E2%80%9D-bmw-vs-mercedes-a-case-for-comparative-advertising/

current URLS for above article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcHocs4CA8A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwPrlsJYwKY

[thelews]

no, but a bimmer might

[merclassic]

thank you  - every day is indeed a school day 

comments section in URL below make for interesting reading :

https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/01/16/bimmer-beemer-beamer/

[merclassic]

yet more mischief-making from those folk from munchen...

https://www.2oceansvibe.com/2019/05/24/classic-bmw-ad-pokes-fun-at-retiring-mercedes-benz-ceo-video/

[Mike Hughes]

in the early 1960s, my wife's parents had a 220 Fintail sedan that was destroyed in a head head-on collision with a runaway dump truck in the Andes.  Her mother and father both survived the head-on and that sent them off the edge of the road and down a ravine.  Bela Barenyi's crumple zones worked and they both are still with us today aged 98 and 100.  There is a photo of my wife and her little brother and sister with that car in Pagoda Style.

[MikeSimon]

no, but a bimmer might

My understanding always was that the car was a "beemer" and the motorcycle was a "bimmer"

[66andBlue]

So what ... as long as neither one is a "bummer".  🤣

[merclassic]

ha ha - indeed 

[David Robinson]

Christopher White Revisits the Site of His Infamous Car Crash… But This Time the Car’s Driving Him

https://lbbonline.com/news/christopher-white-revisits-the-site-of-his-infamous-car-crash-but-this-time-the-cars-driving-him

[thelews]

My understanding always was that the car was a "beemer" and the motorcycle was a "bimmer"

Your understanding is reversed.  Take it from someone who bought a bimmer in 1972, a 2002 new, and drives a bimmer now.

[MikeSimon]

I think it is a matter of opinion or where you live. I do not own a BMW car, but 4 BMW motorcycles and I am a member of the BMW MOA. There they all concur with my understanding...

[thelews]

Groups of individuals have been known to be wrong too.

https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/01/16/bimmer-beemer-beamer/  coincidentally a pic of a 2002 just like I bought in 1972

https://www.bmw.com/en/automotive-life/bimmer-beamer-nickname-origin.html

[MikeSimon]

I stand corrected! I will change the vanity plates on my bikes!

[thelews]

I stand corrected! I will change the vanity plates on my bikes!

And now you can set others straight!