Car brand loyalty
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Ok, divide your most bought brand by the total number of car brands you have owned and post the result.
I'm 25% Land Rover. 12 Different makes of cars/bikes bought and owned, 3 of which were Land Rover. Geddit?
Strange, this was supposed to be a poll?
I'm 25% Land Rover. 12 Different makes of cars/bikes bought and owned, 3 of which were Land Rover. Geddit?
Strange, this was supposed to be a poll?
Edited by LimaDelta on Wednesday 16th January 13:49
Brands, groups and length owned confuse my results. No real winner unless I go FCA for group or Mazda for length owned:
1 Suzuki
2 Mazda
2 VW
1 BMW
1 Mini (BMW)
1 Nissan
2 Mercedes
2 Fiat
1 JEEP
1 Vauxhall
If you did when you owned them thats interesting too, seeing your tastes change. Now I'm 40ish with a family, Mercedes appeal the most.
1 Suzuki
2 Mazda
2 VW
1 BMW
1 Mini (BMW)
1 Nissan
2 Mercedes
2 Fiat
1 JEEP
1 Vauxhall
If you did when you owned them thats interesting too, seeing your tastes change. Now I'm 40ish with a family, Mercedes appeal the most.
3x Land Rover (three years, 11 years and six months)
2x Citroen (nine years and counting, three years and counting)
2x Austin (two years, four years and counting)
2x Volkswagen (six months and three months)
1x MG (2.5 years)
So in terms of brands I'm 30 per cent Land Rover, 20 per cent Citroen, 20 per cent Austin, 20 per cent VW and 10 per cent MG.
Do it by time of ownership and it comes out as something like I've owned a Land Rover of some sort for 90 per cent of the time since I bought my first car. But I don't own one now...
My grandfather was insanely brand loyal. He bought a secondhand Morris 8E when he was demobbed from the Navy in 1946 and refused to buy anything but a Morris (or other Nuffield Organisation product) for the next 30 years. Even when he freely admitted that there was no difference between an Austin or a Morris but the badge, and even when he had the choice of buying a basic Morris 1100 or an Austin 1300 Super Deluxe. He always insisted that Morrises were better-built than Austins. Of course he was undone when BL canned the Morris badge which forced him to buy an early Austin Metro...which was riddled with faults and, to his mind, proved himself right. The last car he bought was an Austin Maestro Vanden Plas which may have been an Austin but was at least built in the 'correct' factory.
That sort of unswervable badge loyalty wasn't uncommon in his generation (he didn't apply it just to cars but to virtually every consumer product he bought - always Olympus cameras, always Ferguson tellys, always Electrolux fridges, even always BP petrol [which caused numerous panicky moments on family holidays in Europe where he would, with the fuel gauge firmly on 'Empty' drive past Elf, Agip,Total, Aral and Shell stations until he came across the only BP garage in the whole of northern Italy - apparently he always managed to find one and never actually ran out...]) but you just don't see that these days outside stuff with a fashion bent like clothes or some electronics.
2x Citroen (nine years and counting, three years and counting)
2x Austin (two years, four years and counting)
2x Volkswagen (six months and three months)
1x MG (2.5 years)
So in terms of brands I'm 30 per cent Land Rover, 20 per cent Citroen, 20 per cent Austin, 20 per cent VW and 10 per cent MG.
Do it by time of ownership and it comes out as something like I've owned a Land Rover of some sort for 90 per cent of the time since I bought my first car. But I don't own one now...
My grandfather was insanely brand loyal. He bought a secondhand Morris 8E when he was demobbed from the Navy in 1946 and refused to buy anything but a Morris (or other Nuffield Organisation product) for the next 30 years. Even when he freely admitted that there was no difference between an Austin or a Morris but the badge, and even when he had the choice of buying a basic Morris 1100 or an Austin 1300 Super Deluxe. He always insisted that Morrises were better-built than Austins. Of course he was undone when BL canned the Morris badge which forced him to buy an early Austin Metro...which was riddled with faults and, to his mind, proved himself right. The last car he bought was an Austin Maestro Vanden Plas which may have been an Austin but was at least built in the 'correct' factory.
That sort of unswervable badge loyalty wasn't uncommon in his generation (he didn't apply it just to cars but to virtually every consumer product he bought - always Olympus cameras, always Ferguson tellys, always Electrolux fridges, even always BP petrol [which caused numerous panicky moments on family holidays in Europe where he would, with the fuel gauge firmly on 'Empty' drive past Elf, Agip,Total, Aral and Shell stations until he came across the only BP garage in the whole of northern Italy - apparently he always managed to find one and never actually ran out...]) but you just don't see that these days outside stuff with a fashion bent like clothes or some electronics.
LimaDelta said:
Ok, divide your most bought brand by the total number of car brands you have owned and post the result.
I'm 25% Land Rover. 12 Different makes of cars/bikes bought and owned, 3 of which were Land Rover. Geddit?
Strange, this was supposed to be a poll?
What about years owned? That has some bearing.I'm 25% Land Rover. 12 Different makes of cars/bikes bought and owned, 3 of which were Land Rover. Geddit?
Strange, this was supposed to be a poll?
Edited by LimaDelta on Wednesday 16th January 13:49
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