not restricted to bmw drivers… i had a long conversation a couple of years ago with a french bloke who was repeatedly failing to get his mondeo up the steep exit slope of the alpine apartment buiding i was staying in.
He had snow chains, but they were on the back wheels… front wheels spinning like crazy, back wheels understandably doing nothing.
He insisted that his was a special french mondeo which was rear wheel drive. leaning down and pointing at the lack of drive shafts on the rear, and the very obvious drive shafts on the front, and demonstrating that the front wheels were spinning did nothing to convince him. ‘Non!, c’est une voiture Francais!’
left him to it
Dave