I Finally Got My Dream Car … And You Can Too. Here’s How.
By: Brian Pandji
Tags: Bmw, Dreams, Cars, New Year, M3

Madonna.

Clive Owen.

Blur.

BMW.

If you were into cars in the 2000’s, you would know the exact short film I am referring to. “The Star” was the name of the short film that BMW created to promote their cars.

“The Star”, the BMW website, the photo gallery and the overall look of the BMW cars at that time, made me fall in love with cars again. Growing up, I did grow up around cars. My dad wasn’t the “get your hands dirty” type of guy, but he was the guy who reads Car and Driver and thick car handbooks type of guy. I am lucky enough that he would share with me every single new detail of cars that he liked. So yeah, he was a car guy and naturally, I also became one myself.

Starting with Madonna taunting Clive Owen, the short film continued on with the depiction of speed and agility both with the car and the swiftness of Clive Owen’s stick-shift work, with Blur on the background. I loved this video. I loved it so much that I spent my summer break creating a dedication website to it … using Flash (eek!).

A few years later, as I was a Junior in college, my eyes caught a more aggressive, muscular and sportier look of the BMW E46 series. The shape, the lines, the artistic wheels pulled my attention everytime it passes me by as I walk to class. Just like a punch on the back of my head, the tag on the back of the car showed the name of the model … the M3.

This car looked great from the front, the side and the back. Not all cars get to look great all around. It had a muscular look from the front with the fender flares, the wide stance with a larger wheel on the back and this slight wing tip on the top of the trunk that tells you that this car is ready to fly. Not to mention the quad exhaust (unheard of at the time) smack dab on the rear middle of the car.

What a dream.

Since the M3 release, I instantly was attracted to it. I started researching it , building it on the website and going out to find opportunities to test drive it on car dealerships. As the research became more extensive and I started talking to more “car car guys”, I got to find out more “dream cars” like the Ferrari, Lamborghini, the Mercedes SL 500 and so on.

And the dream lived on.

Here’s the funny thing about dream cars. They tend to continue to be a dream as long as you continue to make it a dream. Of course some of you may tell me, are you seriously thinking all of us can afford a car that costs the same as a house? Of course not. And I don’t think that may be a reasonable (or logical) decision for most of us. Which is also why not everyone has their dream cars. But there not all dream cars has a price tag of a suburban house in the Midwest. There are cars and brands that depreciate so greatly that gives you an opportunity to own one without you having to sell everything you have.

Yeah and how can I ever afford that?

This is what many people think about when they think about their dream cars. Or the luxury car that they have always wanted, but never could.

Money.

Most people believe that dream cars or luxury cars is all about having money. They forget that it also includes having a mindset.

When we have a goal to become fitter, healthier, crush debt, own a house, get a job or graduate college, we have a plan. That plan could look like, exercise 30 minutes a day, eat less carbs, or pay off more than the minimum charge on your credit card. These are all plans towards a particular goal that we would like to achieve. Today, all of these resources can be found on Google, YouTube or even TikTok. There’s even an app for it.

But getting a dream car still remains a dream because we don’t plan to ever having one. It remains in our dream, not in our mind.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying that it is necessary for you to own your dream car, but if you are wanting one, have you considered how you are thinking about it? Have you evaluate whether you are adoing everything you can to own the car that you want?