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BMW M6 Owner Smashes Car, in Frankfurt Auto Show, over 4 Years of Defects Frustration
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Lord knows there's few frustrations quite as powerful as a car that doesn't work as advertised. Even in our quality-promoting epoch, there's still a hefty business for lemon law attorneys around the United States; in other countries where consumer laws have not advanced so far, those frustrations can fester. At least that's the story told by a man who hauled his 2008 BMW M6 coupe to the Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany last week and started taking batting practice with a sledgehammer.
According to an account in Frankfurt's edition of Bild as tracked down by Carscoops, Italian marble dealer Hadi Pourmohseni staged the demonstration while claiming BMW and his Italian dealer had been unable to fix numerous defects after four years of rigmarole and finger-pointing with the 507-hp car that cost 120,000 euros — $160,000 — new. Hadi said along with a letter to BMW, he brought the car to Frankfurt during the largest European auto show of the year so that he and co-batter Thomas Brunner could publicly unleash some pent-up frustration, noting that a lawsuit over the car would have taken up to seven years. (That's Pourmohseni in the suit and axe below.)
Much like the Chinese men who made similar consumer-protest modifications to a Lamborghini and Maserati, how inflicting thousands of dollars in damage to one's own property is supposed to convince a corporation to take responsibility isn't clear. Pourmohseni has vowed to move the Super Smash Bros. car show to the gates of BMW's headquarters in Munich if he can't find satisfaction — but after that, what's left for BMW to fix?
I'd still take it off his hands. Couple new body panels, new glass, couple lights and you're good to go. Even if it only works sometimes.
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This has been done so many times by rich assholes, if you want some attention by wrecking your car, at least be original.
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__________________ There's a phallic symbol infront of my car
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MG1: in fact, a new term needs to make its way into the American dictionary. Trump............ he's such a "Trump" = ultimate insult. Like, "yray, you're such a trump."
bcrdukes yray fucked bcrdukes up the nose
dapperfied yraisis
dapperfied yray so waisis
FastAnna you literally talk out your ass
FastAnna i really cant
FastAnna yray i cant stand you
You all think that this act accomplishes absolutely nothing, which for the owner's case is true, but if some other rich people who can afford these things sees this, perhaps they would be swayed to some other brand.
And that is something we cannot measure. So perhaps this act isn't completely futile. (and is probably the owner's intention.) Think of the total exposure across the internetz.
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However, how many people have forgotten already about the toyota floormats. And that was a serious news story that spread throughout the world, and was portrayed as something that will inevitably kill you. This spreads through the car community and portrays a whiny, rich spazz case that can't fix his problems without a hissy fit.
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Westopher is correct.
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seems like you got a dick up your ass well..get that checked
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Well.. I’d hate to be the first to say it, but Westopher is correct.
Thing didn't even completely belong to him, it was a lease..
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