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Old 05-20-2019, 05:40 PM   #25489
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Yeah, but the 90's weren't the 70's so....
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Only since the 00's has pop culture attention shifted to what we hear about now.
Brands like BMW, Volvo, MB etc were all too foreign and obscure to even consider.

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Heck, in the early 00's when I met my GF who was raised on a farm in Sask. I mentioned my BMW and she gave me this look like "wtf is that supposed to mean?". Then I mentioned BMW to her father and he was like "who makes that? is that a Ford product?"

true story
You said brands like BMW and Mercedes-Benz were too foreign and obscure to be part of pop culture until the '00s, so ...
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