There is a certain level of service that comes with a $75,000+ car.
They would not do that for a 5 or 7 series (my fiance has a 5 series). They give you an awesome loaner (last time got a 335d), but you have to go to the dealership. But, I do agree that service is exponentially better with BMW vs Subaru.
Once my Subaru finally bites the dust, it’s going to be tough to resist the new BMW 328d. I love wagons, and that car seems perfect for me.
Mercedes and BMW sure don’t do that for you. not even close.
That’s utterly amazing service to have a flatbed truck drop off a loaner Model S
Maybe it’s dealer-specific, but my local Land Rover dealer drives to you in an LR2, leaves it as a loaner, and drives your car back for service (no flatbed though). I think Hyundai does the same if you buy an Equus.
If it’s any comparison, I bought an electric lawnmower this year, instead of having the normal gas-powered ones. It has more than enough power to do my yard, and I don’t have to go to the store to get gasoline, don’t have to change spark plugs, don’t have to mix the oil, or do any of the typical lawnmower maintenance. (You still have to sharpen the blade, but that’s not part of the motor function.) And it starts up immediately every time. For those of you who do mow your yards, I would certainly look into them.
However, it doesn’t have enough juice to mow a really big yard. And it doesn’t have the power to mow really tall, thick grass.
So if this is a fair comparison, I’d seriously consider getting a Tesla, but only after I see that there’s enough infrastructure to be able to drive from Midland to Fort Worth or San Antonio, without having to stop for an hour-long break to recharge.
I don’t know about Beamers, but Mercedes customer service has gotten a lot of bad rap these days. IMHO - while Lexus and Audi are still a good luxury cars, Mercedes is nothing but a status symbol anymore. I would not buy a Mercedes.
^ Have never owned a MB, but have heard nothing but complaints from co-workers who do.
You should know your audience, these people haven’t touched honest labor since, well, ever. Perhaps you should bring up this point to their landscappers.
^ Not true. I mow my 0.89 acres twice a week and I do it with a 21" Craftsman push mower. I did treat myself and buy the self-propelled version though. Admittedly, I did not mow the lawn myself at my last house as it was 3.5 acres.
MB supposedly has pretty poor reliability. Makes you wonder what that “German Engineering” is all about
In order to be fair–I don’t mow my own yard anymore since I took the new job.
It would take me 3 hours to mow, weedeat, and edge my yard. My yard guy and his crew does in less than 45 minutes.
And in three hours I can go to work and make $200. I pay my yard guy $45.
My old man would wake me up every sat morning regardless if i went out the night before to mow our lawn (my parents have 4+ acres.) At the time, it was was worse than fapping with sandpaper but now a days the smell of fresh cut grass its pretty relaxing. When time does come where I have my own lawn to mow I think I’ll mow it too, of course with a tesla produced motor.
My dad’s tractor is the same age as him: a 1952 Ford with a rear crank to which you can attach various things from forklifts to 5 foot wide mowers. Mowing the field in that thing was actually extremely fun. Mowing our inside yard with the push mower, not so much.
I used to run with the mower, which was actually a pretty good workout and allowed you to get the job done faster.
Have you confirmed that your yard guy is here legally? I hear there are a couple of illegals in TX who cut lawns and do it much cheaper than natural born Americans.
BSD making 138K in Midland.
I actually hear the prices of my coworkers from Texas. $45 seems high – they get it for like $20 a week.
I bet there are more than just a couple of them. And no I haven’t confirmed it. I just give him two twenties and a five and when I get back from work, my grass is cut.
Just for the record - you’ve never heard me btch about illegal aliens being here and taking jobs from good ol’ white boys. And you’ve never heard me say, “They need to learn to speak English.”
^ Fair enough, but I suspect a lot of your neighbors who love tea party candidates (Rick Perry excluded) also love the cheap labor they get from illegals.
There are plenty of teabag Republicans who go to the local First Bapist Country Club Church and profess to want to end abortion and hate illegal aliens. Mysteriously, they never check to see if their yard guy/roofer is legal, and they suddenly take their 16 year-old daughter on vacation (during the middle of the school year) to Dallas for only a couple of days.
I pretty much practice what I preach. I drive a foreign car and I buy stuff imported from China.
EDIT - I do prefer, when it’s feasible, to do business locally. But that’s local to this area–not to the US. And that’s pretty much because I want to be the owner of a company, and will want people to do business with me. That being said, if I can buy a car in Midland for $30,000 and the guy in Dallas will sell it to me for $25,000 then to Dallas I will go. Local people still need to be competitive with the rest of the market.