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Originally Posted by BeachM5nster

No insecurity, just fact checking

I didn't say anything about why you like the color. I answered your question about what was wrong with it. I simply said that it's not an attractive color and the majority of people will agree with me.
you're one of these people that does weird stuff and justifies it by saying "well what's normal?!?." Let me answer that for you. Normal is the average. average is the majority. so normal is what is by majority. if the majority of people were homosexual, homosexuality would be the norm. meaning it would be normal and heterosexuality would be abnormal. not saying there's anything wrong with homosexuality other than it is nonsense because the point of sex is to reproduce and keep our species going. But in our modern society keeping our species alive isnt a worry. so who cares, but it is completely contradictory to nature. and it just isn't the norm and that is why.
your color preference also isn't the norm.
that's not to say you're any less than anyone else that's just saying your taste differs from the majority.
I can sit here as well as anyone and talk about how the majority is wrong a lot and all that but in this case I'm going to agree with the masses and say that color just isn't attractive on a vehicle.

what else isn't the norm is leasing a vehicle. why?
welllll,
when you lease, you don't own it, you can't do anything to it you can't modify it and you have a mileage restriction.
when the lease is over you give it back and you've paid all those monthly payments for nothing. Now I know that at the end of the lease you can buy it out but then youve really lost money because they're going to really stick it to you when they sell it to you after you've already paid however much money monthly.

in other words you are doing nothing but renting it and you are controlled as to what you can do to it with the only perk being a lower monthly payment.
if you buy a brand new one you get a warranty if you buy a used one you can get a warranty so you're not leasing it for warranty and worry free ownership.

most people lease because they can't afford payment on buying new but they are the type of person that must have a new car regardless of if they can afford it or not.
and you can actually lease cheaper than you can finance a used one too that's how they get you to lease them.
that's why most people lease. on the other hand you can just pretend you own it and when your lease runs out you can pretend you're just trading in on thr new model and you can just ignore where the pymnt is going and just accept the fact that you're just paying a payment to drive a car and as long as you make a payment youve got a car. but you are still just throwing your money away for the most part with no chance of ever owning it or having it be yours.
its kind of disheartening when u think about it.

but most people like to own their vehicle and not rent it.

I choose not to buy expensive high-end luxury vehicles new because they lose so much value in the first few years, but after that they plateau. I mean I can't afford it either but it's also wasteful. in that regard leasing the car is a good idea because you don't have to worry about losing money on the depreciation. so I can respect a lease and understand it for that. kinda..

what's wrong with entry-level? nothing really on somethings but there's always a corner cut or it just always missing something u want

but there's nothing wrong with an M3 that was just a stab at you for trying to talk crap by lowballing the value of my car when you lease..

just sayin'

You should do the math. Bimmers lease very well especially my i3 and my M3. I lease them because i tend to sell my cars after 2-3 years. I buy Japanese because I tend to keep those longer. In fact, I own 2 other cars. Only me and my accountant know for sure what I can and can't afford. Leasing does not mean I can't "afford" it. Leasing means I like the residual baked into the lease and it's more convenient to have a prearranged purchase price at lease term. Long story short, if I bought my M3 and sold it in 3 years, it would cost about the same as leasing it except it's economy proof to lease. I also get a slightly better business write off, more liquidity and less exposure. Not only that, gap covers the residual in case of accidents. In other words you don't suffer diminished value should you get in an accident.

You are assuming a lot. I bought my 340i and I sold it in 3 months. I owned my Audi S4 and pretty much every car prior. I don't need to "own" a car to boost my ego so you can say I don't own my car all you want, I'll be in a new M car in 3 years or less. Poor me!

As for my color preferences, you know exactly what you were doing. You were attempting to shame me because my preference isn't popular. In fact pretty much all you've done in this thread is shame other members. There is a $36k '14 M5 in Redondo beach btw so whether I under or overvalued your car only proves that you either overpaid or underpaid. Your retort that I undervalued it tells me you were offended that I thought your car wansn't as expensive as it is. Does that mean you sensitive to how expensive other people think your car is?