What did you drive before getting hooked on BMW?

I won't say I'm hooked on BMW, but the wife and I definitely appreciate German cars more. Before that I was raised in a Japanese car household (father hated American cars after an 82 Malibu dud). I will say we're definitely German biased now.

1986 Toyota Camry hand me down from mother
1995 Jeep Wrangler (only had a month before I rolled it)
1991 Honda CRX Si
1995 Infiniti G20 manual
-married so we shared cars
1999 Honda Prelude Si
2001 Nissan Pathfinder LE
-kids so...
2004 Acura TSX
2008 Infiniti QX56
2011 Infiniti G37xS (the Japanese BMW!)
2012 Infiniti QX56
2016 Cadillac Escalade ESV (170K miles when we sold it)
2017 Audi Q7 (180K miles and rollin'!)
2019 BMW X7
2021 Audi SQ7
2022 BMW X7

We drive a crap ton for the kid's sports (40-50K/year between us) so we've been getting something and just piling up miles on them. Thus why we haven't been getting new cars of late

Our kids have:
2017 Toyota Camry
2018 Audi A5 cabrio

90 Porsche 911 C4 cabriolet (964)
95 911 Porsche 911 C4 cabriolet (993)
2000 Audi S4
2008 BMW 335i xdrive
2009 BMW 335i xdrive coupe
2008 BMW 335xi coupe

Miss the Porsches but and they've appreciated too much for me to own one again

08 Mustang
14 Mustang
23 330i

I was not really a bmw fan but like the brand more than Mercedes and Audi. I alway perceived bmw as more sporty than full on luxury so it appealed to me more.

1990 MX5
1994 Ford Probe GT
2005 Nissan Sentra Spec V
2008 WRX
2010 MazdaSpeed 3
2007 MX5
2017 WRX
2019 WRX
2022 WRX
2024 Volkswagen Golf R

All were manual. I guess the WRX got me on the awd platform, although this car feels nothing like the Subaru drivetrain. I would have gotten an Audi after the Golf but the Volkswagen experience was so horrid I would never consider supporting them again. Six weeks into owning the golf the dealer charged me $90 to fix a loose evap hose, claiming I was in a rear end colision. I was not and fought it, corporate stood behind the dealership. They lost me for life over $90.