<p>Hmm…if he goes to the Mercedes event, he can discuss his NEW car that he bought last year. Maybe it’s a Mercedes. If it isn’t, I’m sure the M dealer folks will give him LOTS of reasons to buy a Mercedes. Then he can start ANOTHER thread entitled “trading in one year old car, would you do it?”</p>
<p>If there is wine at the Mercedes event, he can just do his wine tasting there.</p>
<p>If he feels out classed…he should go shopping on Saturday mornings and revel in all the samples of food at the grocery store.</p>
<p>I get a lot of BMW event invitations because we have leased a few, and I made a mistake of giving them my email address for notification of maintainence. I usually delete those invitations. </p>
<p>No, those invitations are not that random. After all free foods costs money to them, in this kind of economy, it’s for targeted audience. Did you buy a Mercedes last time?</p>
<p>(Ahhh, speaking of BMW club and mooching… Ages ago, DH and I were traveling through Eastern WA and got stuck behind a long procession of BMWs. We got curious and just kept following them as they turned off the main road onto a narrow street leading to a castle-like building. Turned out, it was some BMW Club (I wonder if barrons was there?) enjoying their private wine tasting tour, and this was one of their planned stops! We parked our Toyota somewhat out of sight, followed everyone inside the winery that had a sign “Closed for Private Event” and had some great wine with cheese and fruit. The beemer crowd did not even notice the party crashers ;))</p>
<p>A few years back, DH and I went to Italy for a friend’s wedding (he’s Italian). As we pulled up the church in our rented Fiat Punto 500 (meaning two seats and 500 cc engine) (and a manual transmission), we saw that the entire front line of the parking lot was vintage Ferraris. Beautiful red vintage Ferraris. Ten beautiful red Ferraris ranging in age from the 1960s to the 80s.</p>
<p>Of course, we hid the Punto in the back row and pretended we’d been chauffeured over. Turned out the Ferraris were there for a photo shoot and had nothing to do with the wedding.</p>