| ▲ | not-kinsale-joe 3 hours ago |
| I think you are wrong, I live in the UK and people around me drive used BMW x5s and Range Rovers both objectively bad vehicles and not best bang for buck. Car are a fashion statement no matter how much or little wealth you have. |
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| ▲ | PorciiVorbesc 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| >I think you are wrong, I live in the UK and people around me drive used BMW x5s and Range Rovers both objectively bad vehicles and not best bang for buck. Because those used cars are cheap to buy for you in the UK, but there are no cheap used 2CVs yet on the market, so the only customers are those with money. And those people are chasing status, not fashion. Different things. |
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| ▲ | alexaholic 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I think you're mistaking status for fashion. |
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| ▲ | KaiserPro 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Status and fashion are intrinsically linked. people have Luis vuiton branded stuff because it was a status brand. It was a status brand because it was exclusive. it was exclusive because it was expensive. BMWs used to be exclusive, only executives would drive them. THey were expensive, so were only given to execs (if it was a company car) or bought because execs had more cash (generally) | | | |
| ▲ | greggsy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The two are inexorably related | | |
| ▲ | PorciiVorbesc 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Not really. There's quite a few luxury brands for (actual) rich people out there that you can't tell because they're super discrete and can't notice unless you know what to look for and look super close, because they don't have large gaudy logos plastered everywhere to attract looks and envy from the peasants. Those are aren't chasing status looks because they have actual status. LV handbags are for poor people to signal they can fake status by being bad with money. | |
| ▲ | alexaholic 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I think you're mistaken |
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| ▲ | bgarbiak 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How they are “objectively bad”? |
