BoatBanter.com - Speaking of cars...

Calif Bill wrote:

"Eisboch" wrote in message
...

"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:oYTXg.33$kG5.13@trndny07...

I'm going to do my best to talk my wife into the 268 hp Toyota Camry.

Doesn't do much good to try and talk a woman into anything when it comes
to cars. Based on my own experience, I'd offer her my advice, then let
her make her own decision, it's her car afterall and if you talk her into
something else you're sure to hear every little nag she has about it for
as long as she owns it and maybe longer. It isn't easy but I've gotten a
lot closer to accepting that the average person is not a gearhead like
me, they don't know or care what goes on under the hood, and pick a car
almost exclusively based on how it looks. Completely opposite from myself
but whatever.

Mrs.E. sent me out to get her a car a couple of years ago while we were in
Florida. She had a small car and was getting intimidated by large trucks.
I asked her what she wanted and she told me to "surprise" her ... she just
wanted something a little bit bigger and with room to carry stuff.

So, I bought her a BMW X5. She hated it. She backed it into my truck,
backed it into my boat trailer and backed it into a tree. Then she got
backed into by a Federal Express semi and that was the end of it.

Eisboch

Never drove the M5, but looks like it is one of those cars where the
visibility to the back sux.

Not if you are always looking ahead!

Visibility is no worse than a Jeep GC.