by Anura Guruge
on July 12, 2022
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Can you ever see a Jaguar owner (such as I) ever stooping that low? Jag owners by definition have panache & class. SMILE.
I refuse to have any truck with German cars — & have so since c. 1981. That was when I visited ‘Liverpool’ (as in the ‘Beatles’) & saw the bomb damage that had been imparted on that city by the ‘Germans’ during WWII — over 36 years ago. Unlike London, Liverpool had not got around to building over all the bombed out sites. I was SHOCKED. I vowed never to buy a German car as of then. I have been true to that promise. I have owned British cars, American cars, Japanese Cars, Swedish cars, French cars, S. Korean cars — but never German. When I rent cars I specify that I would rather not have a German — which sometimes gets hard because I tend to only rent Luxury. {SMILE}
My adoptive father would buy Mercedes Benzes & I would complain. But, he didn’t care. Unlike I, he was NOT British. Actually, as I came to realize (to my horror) when he wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, he (having grown up in Ceylon prior to independence in 1948) didn’t like the British! I was shocked. But, he sent me off to boarding school there! That was very much him. Yes, I also have cousins who are very proud that they own German cars. But, I feed bad for them. They are also NOT British. {SMILE} Do you get this notion that I am very proud to be British. Damn right. {Smile}
