I got this today in the email and as I’m between phone calls I’ll share this with you. Remember what I said earlier about Bahrainis being “nice number mad“? They’re about the same if not more with their cars. Don’t let Bahrain’s small size fool you though, “belonging” to a certain area, ethnic background, where you pray etc all hold weight too!
Car make : Area in Bahrain/Ethnic background/type
Cruiser : Riffa
Mitsubishi Galant : Muhrraq
Nissan Maxima: Hamad Town
Beat up old sports car with a CD hanging from the rear-view mirror: Isa Town
Honda : Iranians
Mercedes Benz S320 : Married woman (high class)
Toyota Camry: Married woman (who don’t normally give a damn)
People carrier/Van : Mothers
Toyota Cressida : Teachers
VW : university students
Toyota RAV 4 : trendy girls
Ford Mustang : trendy boys
Chevrolet Lumina : wayward boys
Toyota Tercel : Indians
Nissan Sunny : high-class Indians
Camaro : youths who want to show off any chance they get
Dihatsu : Jid Haffs
BMW 318 : wannabe rich person – hey it’s a BMW right?
Jeep Wrangler : people who have been ignored in their childhood
Caprice : Saudi
Smart : they think it’s cute : dickheads
BMW 740 : business men
Range Rover : Nice people
Camry Estate: religious persons/mullahs/imams
Toyota Avalon : Bahrain Defence Forces personnel
Lexus : old Iranian ladies
Beat up old piece of crap that’s stuck together with spit and chewing gum and painted with wall paint and hasn’t seen a spot of water since it was bought and a hazard to all road users yet takes care of it better than his donkey : villager
Opel : who MUST have a German car!
Thank goodness they don’t mention Porsche and Grand Cherokee owners! 😉
There you have it, a guide to Bahrain and Bahrainis through their cars.
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Elitism and cars in Bahrain
A quick scan, and not a single one matches the cars with the ppl i know. You need to be a bit more imaginitive. Try again mate.
There is just one B***** in Bahrain who rides in a gold-plated hourse carriage. On that note I think i’ll just import a donkey-cart to also distinguish myself, rather than be categorised by petty-minded people like this.
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hey chill out man… this was just for a laugh, so laugh!
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
im cool, hope u r 🙂
Whats your number plate?
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haha… no problem.
Here’s the God’s honest truth man, I have NEVER remembered ANY of my number plates! NEVER. The only part of a number I remember is a car I had in college in Scotland (VW Golf) which is OGG and we used to call the car “Ogg”!
On graduation I drove it all the way to the Isle of White and gave it as a gift to my brother who just started college then… but the car only ran 2 cylenders by then and it made it over 900 miles! 🙂
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
Range Rover drivers are “nice people”? Nice as in dopey expat housewife taking her ‘big boned’ children on the school run? My advice to them is lady, you better use your wing mirrors and some common sense if you’re anywhere near me and I’m on my way to work because as far as I’m concerned one way or another you’re getting out of my way. Women like you make me want to go and live in Saudi Arabia.
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hahahhahehahahehea! you crack me up!
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Damn it! I’m on there twice! My dad owns a Caprice LTZ and the driver has a Honda CRV which I’m VERY proud of! Although dad with his middle aged state of mind and denial of becoming 50+ wants to trade it in for… wait for it… GMC Suburban or Cadillac Escalade… do we look like we own livestock?! I’m the last child living in the house and I’m leaving for my master’s soon! If you’re going through a period of wanting a flashy car get an Alfa Romeo!!!!!
*sigh*
[Modified by: Sast (Sast) on February 17, 2004 01:11 PM]
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The quintessential Saudi is NEVER away from his Caprice! You just cannot be a Saudi if you haven’t got a Caprice, how else would other drivers be warned to keep as far away as possible?! That’s what we do in Bahrain.. you see a Caprice on the road, be wary, you see one with Saudi number plates, PARK your car until the Caprice is far away in the distance! 🙂
But you dissapoint me with your choice of car though Sast, why Alfa Romeo? I would have thought nothing less than a Porsche would be good enough for you, especially all lengeried up and suffering from bum fluff!! hehe 🙂
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Alfa Romeo Spyder in silver… but I wouldn’t say no to a Porche. Or Cadillac CTS.
I’m not spoilt, just know what I want!
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
What? No TVR, Marcos, Bristol, or AC?
HARUUMPH
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Elitism and cars in Bahrain
Hey, noone’s mentioned a BMW Z1 — whats going on??
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
From the wayback machine
Beat up old Peugeout: Egyptians who drive no differently than they would in Cairo
Sadly Peugeout had since upgraded it’s products and no longer catered to this section of the market, but to the rescue came the LADA.
Ford: who MUST have an American car
Mazda Miata: British Expat who hasn’t quite yet figured out how to drive a larger vehicle (wait that’s the case worldwide)
Lincoln Towncar: Moderately successful businessmen who have yet to “arrive”. Or every fifth Kuwaiti (not in a Mercedes) or every third Qatari (not in a Land Cruiser; see below)
Land Cruisers: Wannabe Bedu who missed out on the last big-tired Nissan Patrol with the oversize jugs. Whadideyesay?
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
Cmon man — FORD CROWN VICTORIA
now beaten up, unwashed and driven by???
Johnster
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
hey hey
u said nothing about dar-kelb fav car!!!LOL
what is it?
datsun LOL
and who told u that maxiam for hamad town????
here u only can see Toyota corrola or handa crx… 🙂
and what is the fav car for miltry ppl
Old Gmc superban and for ther sons Caprice
Caprice is COOL if they took good care of it BUT THEY DONT 🙁
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
ford:gurlzzz
Elitism and cars in Bahrain
waz up my coz haz a gto67 full optical is it CoOl