Advice from those of you who drive higher end cars, or work on them.

[Rain Man]

I like my BMW, though it's obviously not a four-door. I'm not a huge fan of the 3-series, since I don't think it feels like a luxury car. The 5-series and 7-series certainly look nice, though, particularly the 7-series.

Many years ago we had an Infiniti Q45. Darn nice car. I think the interior was nicer than anything we had in our house. But man, that thing was expensive to maintain, and the Infiniti dealer had a ripoff strategy. They had a tiered pricing structure where the same services cost more for the higher end cars than the lower end cars. So if you got an oil change in the Q45 it cost more than if you got an oil change with the I30 or whatever the middle car was, which in turn cost more than if you did it with the entry-level car. I saw no logic in charging more for the more expensive car, and thought it was a bad strategy since it always ticked off the people who owned the more expensive cars.