Corporate Troll's Journal: Only in this country...

Only in this country will you cross a BMW Z4 with an L-plate. *shakes head in disbelief*

Not unusual.

[Doctor O]

That's not unusual - there are driving schools for the rich brats here, and they only have upper class cars. CLK, S class, SL class, several Jaguars, BMW M5, Audi A8, S6, S8... there's even a Porsche 911 with the German equivalent of L-plates driving around. And I'm not in particularly rich part of Germany, I'm only in the Rhineland. A friend of mine owns a ("normal") driving school and he told me that it's quite a profitable market niche because all those rich daddies don't want their offspring to damage t

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[Corporate Troll]

Actually, this was not a Fahrschule, but a privately owned car that indicated that the guy behind the wheel just had his license (<1y)

A friend of mine owns a ("normal") driving school and he told me that it's quite a profitable market niche because all those rich daddies don't want their offspring to damage the family cars.

Understandable, but if they're that rich, why don't they buy the kid a car? That's what they do here, but usally they get a Golf or an Audi A3 for the really richt brats. Of course,

You learn something new every day

[Scooby Snacks]

That's pretty neat. They really ought to do something like that in my country (USA).