Is 'V8 AMG snobbery' a "thing"?

[Muckypaps]

I would never dream of telling anyone I had a AMG
It's just a Merc if anyone asks me what car I have. (from a beggar background by the way)

 

[Lennox]

I always fancied owning an M5. Various reason but I wanted to say I had an UmmmFummf

 

[E55BOF]

I'm just wondering why anyone with an overtly (or even overly) powerful nob would need it extended...

 

[E55BOF]

I would never dream of telling anyone I had a AMG. It's just a Merc if anyone asks me what car I have.

A proper petrolhead would ask which one anyway. Would you say in response that it was a CLS, a CLS63, or an AMG?

 

[Sub5]

I would never dream of telling anyone I had a AMG
It's just a Merc if anyone asks me what car I have. (from a beggar background by the way)

Ahh now your into the new money, old money discussion

Congrats on your success by the way

 

[Teego]

If the uninitiated ask the answer is "I have a Benz"

 

[Deleted upon users own request member 138506]

Is 'V8 AMG snobbery' a "thing"?

Is it snobbery? Only if you let it be. For it to work you have to identify that anything else is inferior. If you don't buy into it you shouldn't be impressed, feel threatened or envious. I'd think it snobbery if the owner of the V8 AMG bought the car as a materialistic purchase in order to portray superioriority, successfulness and to seek approval and respect from others, but then who am I to judge. Perhaps we should take pity on such a person we next see driving their V8 AMG who may have issues of their own in their need to seek love from others. Success and respect can be gained in so many other ways; qualities such as being kind or good or even clever. I should drive more and worry less about what others think. For me its more of a "thing" cos when i press that thing wiv my foot it goes like a fffing rocket!

 

[E55BOF]

Teego said: 'If the uninitiated ask the answer is "I have a Benz'

Are you sure that's not snobbery? They will then ask what a Benz is...

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I would never dream of telling anyone I had a AMG
It's just a Merc if anyone asks me what car I have. (from a beggar background by the way)

I’m very much the same.

Unless it’s someone who I know has a real interest in cars I wouldn’t ever say which cars I actually drive, and then I would say anything other than the car I was actually driving.

In most cases I wouldn’t even say Mercedes. I might say a Smart, an SUV or an old Jeep thing, if I have to answer at all. I’d generally avoid it if possible.

Even my real world (and virtual) friends don’t know which cars I actually drive, they just tend to see me in a Smart or SUV because that’s what I deliberately drive when I see them.

My friends with the most interesting cars are the same, you only find out when you bump into them. The rest have no interest in their own car, and so have no reason to tell others about it!

Anyway, they’d have no idea what an ML Black Series is

 

[E55BOF]

Is 'V8 AMG snobbery' a "thing"? Is it snobbery? Only if you let it be. For it to work you have to identify that anything else is inferior. If you don't buy into it you shouldn't be impressed, feel threatened or envious. I'd think it snobbery if the owner of the V8 AMG bought the car as a materialistic purchase in order to portray superioriority, successfulness and to seek approval and respect from others, but then who am I to judge. Perhaps we should take pity on such a person we next see driving their V8 AMG who may have issues of their own in their need to seek love from others. Success and respect can be gained in so many other ways; qualities such as being kind or good or even clever. I should drive more and worry less about what others think. For me its more of a "thing" cos when i press that thing wiv my foot it goes like a fffing rocket!

TBH, I don't think many AMG owners, V8 or otherwise, on this forum drive them because of a need to seek love from others. We're quite a well-adjusted crew, by and large. Hands up all those who feel unloved...

All right, let's not have too many "I am Spartacus"-type responses...

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

TBH, I don't think many AMG owners, V8 or otherwise, on this forum drive them because of a need to seek love from others. We're quite a well-adjusted crew, by and large. Hands up all those who feel unloved...

All right, let's not have too many "I am Spartacus"-type responses...

I find that real car people are interested in any car and every car, whether that be an old car or a new car, a shed or Rolls Royce, a city car or a hyper car. It’s a broad church.

Those people are unlikely to look down on a 4-cylinder AMG, because they don’t look down on a 30+ year old Peugeot 205!

Those who’ve been to Caffeine & Machine or similar places see and feel this in action. A Ferrari F40 parked next to a Vauxhall Frontera, parked next to a Nissan Figaro, parked next to a Nissan 100NX, parked next to a Mercedes 300-SL, parked next to a Renault Clio Cup, parked next to a Jaguar XJ220, parked next to a Vauxhall Zafira, parked next to a Split Screen VW Safari, parked next to a line of four VW Sciroccos, and the drivers all stop talking to each other when a rally replica Escort Cosworth announces it’s own arrival

 

[John]

TBH, I don't think many AMG owners, V8 or otherwise, on this forum drive them because of a need to seek love from others. We're quite a well-adjusted crew, by and large. Hands up all those who feel unloved...

All right, let's not have too many "I am Spartacus"-type responses...

I would imagine the majority who do buy AMG cars are serious petrolheads, and then some, who enjoy the best products on the market.

They join forums like this to share their enthusiasm with like-minded individuals, in the main, on here.

Those who buy an AMG simply because it is "top of the range" I doubt would ever frequent a forum, and those who seek love from others by proxy (proxy being the AMG) probably have some other specialist forums catering for that particular urge!

 

[MadMerx]

If the uninitiated ask the answer is "I have a Benz"

When people ask me I respond with 'a Ford Focus', which is technically correct as I have one as my station runner ;-)

 

[E55BOF]

...parked next to a Nissan Figaro...

Vanessa Feltz drove one; that says it all for me. I'm not a car snob, but I draw the line there; how can anyone, even a dyed-in-the-wool car enthusiast, be impressed by a Nissan Figaro? Even more than a Citroen 2CV, in fact far, far more than a Citroen 2CV, it cries out for one of those stickers that says 'Thank You For Not Laughing At My Car'... (cue ROTFL)

OTOH, put AMG and 'Affalterbach Special Edition' badges on one...

 

[MadMerx]

Yes, most performance cars have now due to sound regulations and the OPF that must be fitted to all new cars.

last week I saw the Black Series going around the 'Ring (see my vid in general discussion) and it didn't sound better than my own car.

Jesus H Corbett whatever next, I thought all the stories of exhaust/engine noise being piped to the interior of the car were fake news. Very sad to find the car world is going that way. I cannot bring myself to watch Formula E as it sounds like people revving electric drills, zzzzzz

I am reminded of getting kicked off Donington for the race bike being too noisy, which is ironic considering East Midlands airport is next door!

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Jesus H Corbett whatever next, I thought all the stories of exhaust/engine noise being piped to the interior of the car were fake news. Very sad to find the car world is going that way. I cannot bring myself to watch Formula E as it sounds like people revving electric drills, zzzzzz

I am reminded of getting kicked off Donington for the race bike being too noisy, which is ironic considering East Midlands airport is next door!

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In person it didnt sound any better than in the video. That for what it is (flagship of AMG range) doesnt sound at all good. - its all down to regs.

The new RS models from Audi are in the same boat.

 

[MadMerx]

In person it didnt sound any better than in the video. That for what it is (flagship of AMG range) doesnt sound at all good. - its all down to regs.

The new RS models from Audi are in the same boat.

Thanks. I did wonder if the audio had been sanitised to avoid upsetting any delicate ears, but it seems the cars just sounded dull in person too.
Think I will be hanging onto the older cars rather than get one of those.

Nice to see the defender giving nothing away to that daft thing called aerodynamics! It is about as streamlined as a portakabin ;-)

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Thanks. I did wonder if the audio had been sanitised to avoid upsetting any delicate ears, but it seems the cars just sounded dull in person too.
Think I will be hanging onto the older cars rather than get one of those.

Nice to see the defender giving nothing away to that daft thing called aerodynamics! It is about as streamlined as a portakabin ;-)

The V8 Defender sounded great, no doubt missing any of the filters on that Prototype.

 

[Steve84N]

A large part of why the GT Black Series sounds a bit lifeless is the change to a flat plane crank, so it's lost the burble of the original cross plane design. Other racy V8s with flat plane cranks were designed that way from the beginning.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

A large part of why the GT Black Series sounds a bit lifeless is the change to a flat plane crank, so it's lost the burble of the original cross plane design. Other racy V8s with flat plane cranks were designed that way from the beginning.

Even the traditional AMG cross plane crank is much quieter and less dramatic since OPF have been introduced.

They still sound fantastic, and AMG seem to have done a good job of retaining sound quality and volume compared to equivalent engines from other manufacturers - just like they managed with turbocharging - but they don’t sound quite as fantastic as before OPF.