Is anyone here in a circle of peers who feel that at a certain age or point in your career that you "should" be driving...

Is anyone here in a circle of peers who feel that at a certain age or point in your career that you "should" be driving certain cars.... ie. Euro brand cars

I'm starting to see it amongst my friends now that we are getting older and I am especially seeing it within my family.

I've always liked my sensible Japanese shitboxes and always told myself that my "responsible adult" car was going to be a Honda Fit.

My mother has started commenting on how nice Mercedes and BMW's are and that sort of stuff. And asking me when I'm ever going to get one. All this because I noticed my aunty (her sister) likes to post stuff on Facebook about her kids achievements (my cousin's) and how over the past couple of years they have been buying euro cars since they have graduated college.

Now me and my cousin's were never really into the whole keeping up with the Jones's thing that our parents generation were into. Like it's never them bragging about their car. It's more my aunties and uncles and my parents who brag about the cars their kids bought.

Anyone have anything similar dynamics or is this just an Asian thing?

driving a German car usually corelates with life achievements, there is a reason why so many people are working their asses off just to be able to lease a brand new 3 series

Wouldn't worry about it.

Women, including your mother, are vapid badgewhores who will spread their legs for any faggot in a C-Class with fake AMG emblems from eBay.

Don't give in to the meme.

>My mother has started commenting on how nice Mercedes and BMW's are and that sort of stuff. And asking me when I'm ever going to get one.

>getting influenced by your mother
>getting influenced by your mother in your adulthood
>getting influenced by your mother ever

Faggots and try-hard normies drive middle class euro sedans. Every time I see one I immediately know it's some office working 9 to 5 failure of a human being with two kids and a boring wife.

What this guy said too.
Don't be that guy who buys a $30k merc with $10k in optional AMG trim just to try and come off like you're somebody in life, instead buy what you like and want to drive.

I drive what I like, fuck what they think.

Yeah I guess so everyone around me is going through the euro car meme because like what others are saying here.

>Muh 9-5 office job, gotta look the part bruh.

You can tell they are trying to pressure me to joining them or low key trying to make me jealous but I'm really just not into euro cars. Like if I were to get a more conservative car I'd probably just get a camry or an accord or something

I'll stick to my vape mobile which has been my dream car since I was a teen.

Maybe I'm just lucky cos work pays for the taxi/uber if I need to go out to see someone.

Never had that. If anything, my parents would prefer me to spend less money on my car. They know I like cars so they don't mind me spending some spare cash on my hobby but if I announced to them I had just dropped 50k on a new merc they wouldn't be pleased and rightly so.
t. Asian

I'm 30 now and I've always been of the one mind - that the car is entertaining to drive.

My tolerance for NVH has decreased since I started driving, so anything I drive these days isn't going to be slammed on stiff springs etc. Other than that, I'd still buy any marquee provided they were reliable, had decent power and were fun to drive.

All this "Euro is better" is a meme. You don't need to drive a status symbol to have fun.

A lot of my friends, even the high income earners, think "cheaper is better", and that's probably because I live in Sydney and a car is just another roadblock to buying a house here now.

I can only think of one exception - he drives a 2nd gen Elise, and a S2000 before that. It's never been about the status symbol with him, just because he's always loved cars.

Don't fall for the status meme.

I don't know. Maybe it's just us but no one in our family likes the idea of even buying used cars.

I think it's only me who has ever done it.

Everyone has this mentality of 'gotta trade the car in every 5 years before it depreciates too much and before repairs cost too much'

Which I never understood because how is constantly having a car payment supposed to be more financially reasonable than just paying for that major service that's coming up.