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#26 2014-10-06 07:49:56
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Re: On Luxury...
Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#27 2014-10-06 11:51:18
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Re: On Luxury...
'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'.
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#28 2014-10-06 12:03:01
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#29 2014-10-07 15:28:12
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#30 2014-10-07 15:35:42
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^ I almost added that BMW might be the lone maker that can find a satisfying middle ground.
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#31 2014-10-07 15:49:28
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#32 2014-10-07 16:47:51
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Before turboing, the M3's were V8. The new ones are turbo, but everyone us trying to keep up with the horsepower jonses these days, so I don't see anyway around forced injection in the near future.
My X5 is the last of the natural V8's, 4.8L
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#34 2014-10-08 05:00:01
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#36 2014-10-08 11:30:35
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#37 2014-10-08 12:16:49
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#38 2014-10-08 12:19:19
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#39 2014-10-08 12:24:20
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"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin
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#40 2014-10-08 12:33:29
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare
#41 2014-10-09 08:05:38
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Ye auncient wysdom of Sir Francis Bacon, on expense:
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/francis-bacon-essays-60.html
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#42 2014-10-09 08:32:31
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#44 2014-10-21 15:59:08
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#45 2014-12-21 09:50:35
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http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21635759-why-luxury-so-hard-pin-down-rose-many-names?fsrc=scn/tw_ec/a_rose_by_many_names
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#46 2014-12-22 21:45:41
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^So to qualify as luxury it must be rare, hand-crafted by Europeans (preferably Italians or English), conspicuous and pointlessly expensive, but there is another quality, or lack of, in certain luxury items, having a short life span e.g. luxury jumpers. They'll last as long, as well, a M&S jumper.
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#47 2014-12-23 03:37:56
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I thoroughly reject the notion that inflated price alone qualifies as luxury.
Ostentation in the form of recognizable, perishable or quickly dated overpriced hooey is the definition the masses accept.
Bain & Company, the venture capital firm Mit Romney was with, has a some extensive studies not of luxury goods, but of luxury customers.
http://www.slideshare.net/morellimarc/bain-ww-luxury-consumer-2014
#48 2014-12-23 05:22:45
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Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare