- Big Money Wasted!
(camera shutters)
Sir, do you know where your blinker is?
You read the title.
You already know what we're talkin' about.
Beamer boys, rest in peace little P--
BMW founded over one hundred years ago,
so they must be perfect after spending so much time
making these cars right?
Wrong!
Expensive cars, expensive maintenance,
and expensive tastes sprinkled with electrical gremlins
is enough to make you sweat.
However, Beamers have so much history, so much heritage
ranging from motor sports to even motorcycles.
Seeing you drive a BMW itself is a flex,
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and their motto even is "The Ultimate Driving Machine".
They have legendary cars such as the iconic E30 M3,
the car that Lamborghini was supposed to help with,
and then BMW said, "We got this, the M1 and so many more".
You see them at every car show. You see them at track day.
So why do BMWs get so much hate?
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So, before we dive into why some of the car scene
gives backlash on these German automobiles,
let's learn a little bit about where they came from.
(Foreign language)
I butchered that, but you know what?
We had a German exchange student and we tried
having him pronounce Wisconsin cities like these.
(bell dinging)
and he couldn't do it either and we laughed.
Okay. It's not just me that sucks at pronouncing things,
by the way, it's pronounced oh-CON-oh-moh-wok.
All right, you got it now?
But, you didn't plan on learning that today.
Anyway, founded back in 1916
which is the same time Piggly Wiggly was also founded.
This is also, it doesn't relate at all
but the grocery store name a Piggly Wiggly is pretty dope.
Did you know in China they call BMW's
(foreign language)
which literally translates to English as "precious horse"?
So for the rest of video, I will not be saying BMW,
and I will be saying precious horse.
I will also be saying this any time I see a BMW from now on.
"Look at that precious horse, it's slammed!"
I can't stay on track, I'm so sorry if you're still here,
Thank you. You the GOAT, you the precious goat.
The precious horse didn't start off with the cars
we all know and love today.
Hell it wasn't even motorcycles.
The first vehicle was a Straight-six airplane.
Yes, airplanes.
That's why a lot of people think the blue
and white BMW logo is a propeller after their start
with aviation,
that's pretty fly, get it?
because plane go Arabs
but that's not what the precious horse logo means.
It's white and blue to show its respect
for where it was founded in Bavaria Germany.
BMW did create a few ads where their logo was shown
in airplanes propellors, which would cause some confusion.
This is exactly why BMWs get hate.
That's it!
That's why, the, it's a propeller or not, what is it?
Why are they (beep) with the-- why--
Okay, all right.
So that's not really why the precious horse gets hate.
All right, well maybe some of it, anyways,
fast forward past the war, past the inline six airplanes
in Bavaria and we're in 1952 in Munich
they would start producing cars again
but it didn't exactly go great.
Precious horse would have to compete
with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SL and the Mercedes-Benz 190 SL,
big shoes to fill!
They would release the BMW 501, 502, 503, 507
and they were (beep) insane.
Blowing Mercedes out of the water BMW be like,
"Mercedes nuts!".
Well, at least that's what precious horse
was hoping was going to happen.
It didn't.
1959 comes around and precious horse is like
the monopoly game where all your friends land
on property spaces and you just keep landing
on community chest, chance and free parking over and over.
BMW is bleeding! They have no money.
They're losing money and they're in debt.
Sounds like me when I got my Volkswagen.
But wait, the story's not over, after precious horse
tried to merger with Mercedes nuts and was rejected,
they kept fighting.
Project new class would drop like a hot album
and save this horse from the farmer shootin' it.
It would be a new line of cars featuring front disc brakes
and four-wheel independent suspension and,
and, the Hofmeister kink.
Excuse me, chubby beard guy.
What in the (beep) did you just say to me?
The Hofmeister kink baby.
I had no idea this actually had a name
but it's the C- pillar notch, the, you know, on the back
of the window, on the rear of the car,
we're just learning a bunch of little fun facts.
Aren't we?
So with these new stylings and front disc brakes,
precious horse was able to dig its way out of the hole
it was buried in and start to get some momentum.
In following years, we would see things like
the BMW M30 engine in 1968, which would be produced
for 24 years! God dang!
In 1978, we would see the legendary M division.
That's not all, they would keep on tracking
and release the 8 series, doubling in V8s.
They would go on and buy other brands like Rover, and Mini,
and then would be seen having their engines
in the McLaren F1 and Rolls-Royce Phantom.
See, they've been shoving the engines and other stuff
for years, you can stop picking on the super now. Okay?
So all of this is fantastic but where does the hate come in?
All right, enough about the dirty past.
Nowadays there's a certain prestige feeling when
owning a precious horse, these cars are expensive
from the factory and have a luxury stamped all over it.
I think this bled into some of the owners' minds
and whether they're in a BMW M3, or in 1983 318i,
the drivers stigmas are out there.
The cutting you off in traffic, the no blinker usage
we have all heard of it.
These people in these precious horses feel
like they're better than everyone else!
That's a good quote. Someone put that in a year book.
Please.
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Somehow, over the years, the owners I feel have caught more
of the flag than the cars themselves.
They're like the people that take up four spots in front
of Walmart so they don't get door ding.
The ones that wear driving gloves on their trip
to Dairy Queen on Sunday.
The ones that slam it on it's nuts and take it
to the Drake's strip to do a 17 second!
pass on that one. That last one was as, tha, we did the--
To put you in the mindset of how prestigious BMW is,
and makes you feel, they have a dedicated web page
on their site to teach you the real pronunciation
of BMW and how it should sound in every single language.
- (foreign language)
- B-M-V
- (foreign language)
- Precious horse
It's three letters why are you helping me pronounce this?
But okay, listen here, precious horse owners.
It's okay, don't be mad, it's not just you.
The cars have had their fair share of quirks.
Earlier models were plagued by electrical gremlins.
I don't know about you but I hate those problems
more than anything.
When your power windows randomly decide to stop working
it's just annoying as hell.
Not only that, but maintenance is important
on these precious horses.
Okay? So any horse, but, any car needs maintenance,
but with these high end German cars
you've gotta be on your (beep).
Oil changes on time.
No it won't be okay for another 10K, change it.
Over here in the US parts are generally more expensive
for anything imported So, BMW seem to fit the boot
there as well.
Overall, I'm going to give precious horse
a five on the hate scale.
The owners being stereotyped as jerks is funny
and always will be paired with its electrical issues
and high maintenance, keeps the hate scale up
while it's Unforgettable Cars in history brings
it back down.
Phenomenal cars that have timeless designs
and can also get down and rowdy as hell.
But what do you think? Would you own a precious horse?
Comment down below I'm going to read every single one.
The amount of issues we've had
with the is outstanding though.
It's a running joke here that it literally
breaks itself sitting in one spot.
Doesn't mean I don't love it though.
Something about driving that car,
in a 17 second pass without a working RPM Tech.