Car ads.... "DOCTOR OWNED" etc. WTF?!
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Case in point:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3504145.htm
What the hell does a car being owned by a Doctor have to do with anything? A friend of mine bought an A3 that was previously owned by a Doctor, only to find over the next few weeks that it had had a Golf engine put in it (same-ish anyway but had a Golf specific engine number) and various bits of trim fell off around him.
It was certainly not a mint condition car, well looked after by the good doctor!
Things like that in ads actually deter me from taking a serious interest in the car. It's as if the seller needs to overcompensate for something.
Am I alone in this regard?
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3504145.htm
What the hell does a car being owned by a Doctor have to do with anything? A friend of mine bought an A3 that was previously owned by a Doctor, only to find over the next few weeks that it had had a Golf engine put in it (same-ish anyway but had a Golf specific engine number) and various bits of trim fell off around him.
It was certainly not a mint condition car, well looked after by the good doctor!
Things like that in ads actually deter me from taking a serious interest in the car. It's as if the seller needs to overcompensate for something.
Am I alone in this regard?
Nope - I agree with you completely.
I guess in the case of "doctor owned" the seller thinks that this means that people will think that a doctor is a "better" person - a more caring, moral kind of person - witness the way that people supported the recent public sector strikes - nurses, care workers and teachers, as if these people are somehow pious self-sacrificers and it gives them some kind of high ground. Not to me it doesn't - it's a job, one of many that go toward building the environment and society that we live in.
I guess in the case of "doctor owned" the seller thinks that this means that people will think that a doctor is a "better" person - a more caring, moral kind of person - witness the way that people supported the recent public sector strikes - nurses, care workers and teachers, as if these people are somehow pious self-sacrificers and it gives them some kind of high ground. Not to me it doesn't - it's a job, one of many that go toward building the environment and society that we live in.
Golaboots said:
My wife is a doctor and I resisted putting this in the ad for her car. I think it's meant to imply a responsible owner who has treated the car well.
Most of the doctors I know all like a drink and are always having parking scrapes.
Most of the doctors I know all like a drink and are always having parking scrapes.
I imagine the one that owned my friend's old car to have been a bumbling old fool, with gambling and alcohol related issues 
Dog Star said:
Nope - I agree with you completely.
I guess in the case of "doctor owned" the seller thinks that this means that people will think that a doctor is a "better" person - a more caring, moral kind of person - witness the way that people supported the recent public sector strikes - nurses, care workers and teachers, as if these people are somehow pious self-sacrificers and it gives them some kind of high ground. Not to me it doesn't - it's a job, one of many that go toward building the environment and society that we live in.
To be fair doctors didn't strike. I did think the strikes were very well organised, it's almost as if the teachers had six weeks off in the summer to plan it!I guess in the case of "doctor owned" the seller thinks that this means that people will think that a doctor is a "better" person - a more caring, moral kind of person - witness the way that people supported the recent public sector strikes - nurses, care workers and teachers, as if these people are somehow pious self-sacrificers and it gives them some kind of high ground. Not to me it doesn't - it's a job, one of many that go toward building the environment and society that we live in.
Doctors, the same, if anything less liable than average to look after a car in my experience as they can afford to buy another one and don't have time to lavish, the doctor I know has two cars, both covered in dents, never get washed, I think he just shoves antibiotics at it if it doesnt sound right or defibrallates it when it wont start.
"One company director owner", wooo, am I meant to be impressed, what does that tell me exactly ?
speedtwelve said:
thinfourth2 said:
It has flames down the side and a leg nailed to the bonnet?
Did Vyvyan actually graduate? I thought he was killed by 'Cliff'?You don't think a wee bus crash would hurt him
though well done for getting it so quickly i thought it would pass over the youngsters on here completely
thinfourth2 said:
he had his cut off by a train before then
You don't think a wee bus crash would hurt him
though well done for getting it so quickly i thought it would pass over the youngsters on here completely
No, he survived the train incident, he went and picked his head up and re-installed it with no apparent ill effects.You don't think a wee bus crash would hurt him
though well done for getting it so quickly i thought it would pass over the youngsters on here completely
thinfourth2 said:
speedtwelve said:
thinfourth2 said:
It has flames down the side and a leg nailed to the bonnet?
Did Vyvyan actually graduate? I thought he was killed by 'Cliff'?You don't think a wee bus crash would hurt him
though well done for getting it so quickly i thought it would pass over the youngsters on here completely
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