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i understand this as well.
i ran out of fuel and called the dean of my school(i was to be in his class at 8am that morning) and asked him if he could look up a number for me.
when i told him i wanted the local mercedes dealership's telephone number he said: "ohh.....so you drive a mercedes?" in that condescending way. most of youall know it. oddly enough, as i was leaving campus on tuesday there was a bmw z4 behind me, when the second lane opened up and it got beside me, it was dean proctor... i still havent figured out if that comment was him being interested in the german car in general or his nose in the air thinking "well i had to work for mine, daddy didnt buy it for me"
i usually wiggle my way out of these situations by saying "its a 4 cylinder with manual windows."
i've friends that thinks buying a mercedes benz with a school loan constitutes fraud. i just tell them after replacing power motors and windows in my neon got old(NEVER...EVER buy a car with rimless windows, not even a mercedes benz....bad...BAD) and the commute is 43 miles each way. the neon got passed back to my parents as a spare car and ive been driving the merc ever since. i consider it to be a luxury item still, eventhough i paid 2 grand for it.
air conditioning, stereos and hubcaps are luxuries, not necessities.
all this said, i do feel pride when i say i drive a mercedes benz(and i correct people when they use beamer as a generic term for german cars) its an undeniably well built, well designed and very intentional motorcoach, not a "transport module" with happy accidents during its design. its just a car, people think less of it when they smell the tailpipe or hear it run, though. "this car doesnt sound right, shouldnt you get it fixed, is it going to break down?"
when my battery died...the lady in the office asked what kind of car it was so the police could come give me a jump. jokingly she said "i thought those cars werent supposed to break?" my reply:
its a 26 year old machine.
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