{"id":4612,"date":"2011-01-05T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T00:02:37","slug":"do-people-care-what-car-they-learn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Do People Care What Car They Learn In?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4614 lazyload\" title=\"Question Marks\" alt=\"Question Marks\" width=\"180\" height=\"150\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/question_marks.gif\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/150;\" \/>Someone has raised this as a topic on one of the forums. It&#8217;s one of those subjects which seems quite banal (and it comes up often enough), but which is totally beyond the understanding of many ADIs. A bit like statistics, really!<\/p>\n<p>One&#160;person posts that he often gets people asking about the Minis and Astras his company uses. The whole topic immediately becomes moot, since it obviously DOES&#160;matter &#8211; and so becomes irrelevant that other pupils might not be bothered about the car.<\/p>\n<p>But this doesn&#8217;t stop another poster stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Car does not matter. The personality of the instructor does. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See what I mean about it being a difficult concept for some ADIs? They just can&#8217;t see beyond their own tiny world.<\/p>\n<p>Another poster made a comment about a school in his area teaching in a BMW (which he subsequently deleted), and yet he then says in another post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who have asked me about cars when booking lessons. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, it either matters or it doesn&#8217;t. You can&#8217;t have it all ways. You can&#8217;t acknowledge that a BMW attracts people and then say it doesn&#8217;t, particularly when <em>your <\/em>car is quite possibly one of the makes people wouldn&#8217;t choose&#8230; <em>if they had to choose (which they don&#8217;t)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The simple fact is that if the car matters to just one person, then it MATTERS. In reality&#160;it matters to a hell of a lot of people &#8211; and it would matter to the rest of them if money wasn&#8217;t <em>their <\/em>main concern. If&#160;they had a choice between a brand new Mini or a 10 year old Skoda or Corsa&#160;then it&#8217;s fairly obvious which they&#8217;d choose.<\/p>\n<p>Most pupils consider the instructor, the car, and the lesson price to be important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone has raised this as a topic on one of the forums. It&#8217;s one of those subjects which seems quite banal (and it comes up often enough), but which is totally beyond the understanding of many ADIs. A bit like statistics, really! 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