BMW

[Major Nikon]

[DFW]

1. My wife and I both drive BMWs

We live in Germany, and, for 99% of BMW drivers, the cartoon is, unfortunately, true.

We are in the 1%

[Major Nikon]

2. I didn't have any problem with BMW drivers in Germany

Germans tend to take driving pretty seriously.

It's the ones here in the states. Lexus drivers are worse.

[DFW]

4. You should!!

In general, they are aggressive, egoistic and reckless.

Like I said--we are in the 1%

Don't know about Lexus--we don't see many of those in Germany.

[Major Nikon]

5. I lived in Germany and didn't notice

That was decades ago.

Most of the cars on the road were either Mercedes, BMW, or Volkswagen and I just didn't discern that much difference from any of those three. What I did notice was the average German driver was an order of magnitude better than the average American driver.

[DFW]

6. I live in Germany now

The average German driver is impatient, aggressive, and, in general, a danger to be on the road with. We both take public transportation whenever it's feasible, and we drive two of the safest and most reliable German cars built. Their technology may save their drivers from some mayhem, but in general, when they have a collision, they have a monster. My wife was almost killed while parked at a red light in the right lane when a truck, driven by a tired German, decided to turn right from the left lane, and was so high up, he didn't see her in her station wagon (or so he said). He demolished it. The only reason she crawled out of the wreck alive is because her car was so sturdily built. Had she been in a Passat, she would have been killed instantly.

[Major Nikon]

7. The traffic fatality rate in the US is almost 3 times that of Germany

If you look at it per miles driven, it's still almost twice that of Germany which isn't really a fair comparison since the US is far less population dense.

[Populist_Prole]

3. Yeah, pretty much nails it

And has since the 1980s.

[mnhtnbb]

8. I object to this broad brush. I drive a BMW and I see a lot more a$$holes driving

pick up trucks, Toyotas, Jeeps, and Suburbans than I do lousy BMW drivers.

[Flying Squirrel]

9. What's the similarity between a BMW and a case of hemorrhoids?

Sooner or later, every asshole gets one.

[Wounded Bear]

10. I use to work for a German guy...

In his words, BMW's come with a right of way.

[Skittles]

11. everyone I have known who drives one has indeed been an asshole

could be coincidental