Love you guys :)

[ahdoman]

Kat - obviously you've never owned a BMW from the 80's and tried to fit into that community! The E30's are the new "ricers" and have absolutely no respect for anyone over 28!

Other than this group, one of the best forums/ groups I was ever a part of was the Porsche 914 community. We were outcast from all of the "real" Porsche owners groups (911's) and so we all hung together and never took ourselves seriously. In fact, the last 914/6 I owned was nicknamed "the turd" because it was a brownish paint job that the previous owner had never clear coated.

It's encouraging to buy a vehicle as weird and on the fringe as the VX and then find out that there are others like you that are 15 degrees from normal. I'm really hoping to be able to make it to Moab just to meet you all.

[Y33TREKker]

...Other than this group, one of the best forums/ groups I was ever a part of was the Porsche 914 community. We were outcast from all of the "real" Porsche owners groups (911's) and so we all hung together and never took ourselves seriously...

That one hits pretty close with me too since I've always been a fan of the 928. That's not saying all Porsche owners are the picture of maturity as I've had a few of those owners prove that their idea of the truth when it came to selling their stuff required a somewhat high degree of elasticity and investigation (we'll just say that some of them take the phrase caveat emptor to new heights).

I don't think it matters what vehicle/forum/group we're talking about though. There will always be those group members who think that being there first, or being the most active forum member, or throwing the most money at their vehicle, or being in the right forum clique...somehow means that everyone else should automatically defer to them...and that's where the fun usually starts.

If that attitude were somehow unique to any particular vehicle forum it would be one thing, but it's not, so that basically makes those forum members the same as something like the modern-day "rugged individualist" Jeep or Ford F-150 owner, or "high-performance" BMW/Mustang/Camaro street warrior...a dime a dozen...who usually ALSO take themselves too seriously.