Hello All,

I visited the forum a few times and I wonder about the following.
Are Mercedes owners in the USA associated with a certain class or race of people?
Reason for my curiosity is the following.
I live in the Netherlands, I can not recall ever getting a remark about the VW's I own/have owned. The Mercedes seems to be associated with (just a few examples):
-untrustworthy second hand car dealers
-trailer-park residents/gypsies
-white trash
-pimps
-drug dealers on the way up
-farmers
-gestapo cruiser
etc.

Sometimes this is said in a 'friendly manner' but in your face. Other times it is discussed behind your back.

I drive my S-class with pleasure and I don't bother to much what other people say/think about me. But I know my wife does not like to drive it herself for that reason.
How are reactions in the US towards the bigger Benz-types? Envious? Good for you? Way to go!

Let me know about your personal experiences (and how you dealt with the less friendly ones)

kind regards

What the heck?
Down here in OC it's any man's car really.
Mostly though, Persians, Arabs, and Asians.
Nowadays, any shmoe can afford a benz down in SoCal. The stereotype is no longer relevant here.

Netherlands - 4 cars on the express way per SQ mile.
US of A - 4000000000000 cars on the express way. Who cares?

I get asked if I'm a drug dealer sometimes because my Benz is blacked out. I don't take any offense to it, and usually I play along and say, "As a matter of fact, I am a drug dealer."

Well I guess you figured out my game. How did you know I lived in a double wide? Must be some good stuff over there in the red district?

haha newt!!!!! thats the way we roll!Loll

shhh lol haha jp

My girlfriends mother think I'm a married Drug Dealer, but I think its more for the fact that I'm dating her daughter.. not the car..LOL

Who cares...

i would actually want to look suspicious... just the idea of the kind of people who drive these cars u know...ex.... slikc shiny hair..long black coat..and or dressed in black... slick shoes... people that are leads buisness man and mafia leaders ..drug dealers..its kinda cool if u think about it

and people always look at you when u roll up with blacked out windows and come out wearing a black coat with sunglasses ...lol its cool

out of curioiity why would u say white trash??do u think trashy people could afford this 100k car?? and the insurance on it.. cuz most trashy people cant afford it atleast not in the states

ppl who drive S-classes in this reigons

-senior ministry employees
-posers
-spoilt teenagers
-bargain hunters

oh and for every block expect to find an average of 50 W220s

In the world of credits and loans, it's possible.

In the USA peeps drive MBs because:

1) we have more money than sense
2) where there is money there is a lot of traffic - you will want a nice car
3) brainwashing
4) it shows "you've made it" (made it where? who the fu$k knows)
5) in the USA - waste it good -

For that matter, look at this also:

1) all the SUV losers that never go "off-road"
2) all the people that buy trucks and never do any work with it (yes it's true some people think it's cool to drive around in a truck)


America is all about being a poser.

With white trash I mean people that benefit from social security money, work they do is mainly semi/ or entirely illegal, growing large qty of cannabis, Rebuild crashed newer cars to new ones (preferably BMW´s, Audi or Benz)with parts that have a non/traceable origin.
In a lot of dutch cities you can find neighbourhoods where they live-do their business.

I regard myself quite liberal, but to be honest a lot of people I know call me names that point a slight bit more to the right/wing politicians.

Maybe off/topic Holland is still a nice country to live in. I do not think about moving (also not to the US, on the other hand I can drive real big Benzes for a lot less money then I can over here )

many keep asking me whether i am in "russian mafia".... sux
.. probably those people that can't see a broader image of this life.

with how sweet ur s class looks i wouldnt be surprized if you were.. and its a black amg model so u can have fast getaway too..lol jk