oh well, maybe its cause u got new tires, all i know is first, when it snows like a few years back, no one comes to shovel our snow on the streets so theres like 4 inchs of snow/ice on the ground, i took neighbors' 740 out to pick up her kids, i was going like 25-30mph down the hill then all of a sudden the car just looses control, i was like oh shit dont crash dont crash. The whole way driving to her school(only like 10 min drive) the car skidded at least 6 times. Right after that, I took my old camry to school just to compare and the car only skidded once. Thats the only time I've personally driven a bmw on snow. But people tell me their bmw is bad in snow, the traction control dont even help, etc. My best friend ended up getting a range rover for the snow since he cant use the z3 in snow. He traded his range rover in for an X5 last winter and he swears that thats the best SUV ever. hehe I think so too, I told my parents to get us an X5 for the snow but they ended up giving us their old RX300, grrrrrrr

 

Geez, what do your/ parents do for a living that they can just give you "an old RX300"?

Must be nice to be able to drive a CLS for like 8 months and get an M3 when wanted...Can your parents adopt me?

 

haha, well my dad owns his own business and my mom is a VP at salomon smith barney. They suck though, I wanted to get an S4 but they wouldnt let me. They said the car is too small and if I crash, i'll die. Thats one reason y they like the CL cause they are big. Yet they wont get me a mercedes because they think I am too young for nice cars even though i tell them mercedes are much safer than acuras. I don't consider myself lucky or be in an above average family, I have friends that gets new vettes/bmws for presents.

 

You're gonna get flamed for that...

For example, someone might say "I can't wait until your punk ass gets out of college with a 2.1 gpa and nobody's hiring and you have to work at Starbucks and drive a '95 Neon"...

 

haha well actually, my school's average starting salary for my major was $55k a year last year. I am getting about $41k just being an intern right now. So if everything goes well, i wont be driving any neons. hehe

 

opps pressed submit too fast again, so anyways, even though u guys probably all make 2, 3 times more than I do or will make, I think with my education/degree, i wont be that bad off when im out of college. Besides I'll get my dad's business anyways.

 

You boys gettin a little off-topic. Take it to ramblings.

 

So your racing your dads car right now? (The CLS?)

 

no the car is mine. I dont live with my parents. Me and my sis have a house together.

 

Excuse me Sir..... Do You Have Any Grey Poupon?????

 

Damn, what kind of business does your dad have? I mean, I personally know several Exec. VP's from Chase, Morgan Stanley ( but depending what dept), and even with a $300K per year salary, it would be focken tough to own all those vehicles, live in a nice house ( I assume), and then buy my kids a house on top of that. Man, I need to quit my job and do what your pops does.

If you don't mind me asking, what nationality are you?

Oh yeah, answer the damn question...do you or don't you have any Grey Poupon?

 

haha well I am chinese. Thats the thing, we don't have a nice house. We came from hong kong a few years ago, and apartments in hong kong are really small, so when we saw the houses here, they were huge to us. My parents just gave us the 1st house they bought here. Cant be worth more than maybe $300k. Anyways, my dad owns a few auto shops. Plus he has an import/export company. I dont consider us having alot of cars. I have a CL that im paying for myself, my parents bought my sis her CL and they gave us their old RX300, thats all.

 

Your saying that your making the payments on the CL, but then your saying here that <snip>'they wont get me a mercedes because they think I am too young for nice cars'<snip>

Time to cut the BS and stop giving yourself a 'I do it myself' ego. Which one is it?

 

Hmmmm, good point! Yeah, what's the real deal here.

 

Heres the deal. My parents are very strict, everything has to be their way. If I get something that they dont like, they'll make me return it or throw it away. I respect my parents alot. So before I get anything "big", I ask my parents. When I was deciding what car I want, I asked if its ok for me to get an S4 or an SLK, they said no. Then I ran into the CL and asked them, they said acuras are fine, as long as you dont get a type S. I do pay for all my stuff, its just I ask them before I buy anythign big like more than like $500 maybe, just to show that I still care about what they think. Like I have always wanted to be in the air force and I got accepted to Air Force Academy, but my parents didnt want me to go, so I threw away my dream, just cause I believe they gave birth to me, without them I wouldnt be here. So whatever they want, i'll try my best to do. Yes you guys might think im dumb or something, but I would do almost anything to make them happy. And I wont let small things like a car to get inbetween our relationship.

 

Interesting, but how much research did you do into the Air Force Academy requirements??

Outside of the scholastic and moral (subjective...) requirements there are further issues when a International student applies. I do assume that you would fall into the International area since as you stated, you and your family moved from Hong Kong a few years ago. From what I understand all International applicants must meet the same requirements as domestic but also have a letter of recommendation from their country's Minister of Defense. Not something easy to come by!!

 

I am a US citizen so there was no problem there, also you need a senator's recommandation which i got, like I said before, I got accepted, passed all tests, everything was set. 4 yrs of free education, instead of now paying over $125k for my school.