There is a reason these things still have less than 20,000 miles. Crack pipe. Or maybe it should be coke spoon.

@wacopaco: Simba?

This is the sort of thing that used to upset me, but I've long since accepted that BMW is dead.

The best marriage of Mercury Cougar and babe occurred in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Who can forget Diana Rigg and her '69 XR7 convertible?[www.youtube.com]

@jodark: Good news.

@gearhead_318: High mileage E36 for $9K? You could get a parking lot full of them here for that.

This is the ruling class in South Africa now. You can bet that the murderer and his friend bought these cars with foreign aid money too. The full story here is a cautionary tale.

Looking at what BMW was only makes what they are that much more depressing.

@MushyHeirloom: I learned from my time at the dealer. I paid less for my Honda new than I could sell it for used 18 months later. I did it by putting what I wanted out to bid to dealers all over the state of Virginia, and requiring them to give me an out the door price including taxes and any dealer BS that I couldn't…

The crane rental is cheap relative to the price of having a medivac helicopter on standby.

@lilwillie: I've only lived in coastal states where there are relatively few privately owned domestic sedans. It is interesting how this colors our respective experiences, as my mechanics drove domestic full sized trucks but recommended Hondas and Toyotas to anyone who asked. I don't know about all cars breaking…

@RamblinReck89: It is basically an E46 with all the room sucked out. Somehow is still manages to weigh more than the larger car it was based on. Maybe all the engineers at BMW were aesthetically sensitive and fled when the cars got ugly.

@lilwillie: You're right about one thing. Toyota and Honda don't have Suburban competitors. That's why we had to buy them. It is kind of like the E350 vans we had too. They were garbage straight from the production line. Power windows didn't work on delivery, doors flapped in the wind, seats rattled in their mounts,…

I had an E30 on 14x5.5 inch black steel wheels and Pirelli Winter 190 tires. It sounded just like this one too. One thing I don't recall in the 325i was a 6,200 rpm rev limiter or 6K red line. Was this some 3rd world export market model meant for 85 octane petrol? I think US models redlined at about 6,450 with 6,750…

Anyone who attempts to drive an LR4 with a 5 liter engine accross the Serengeti will be food, which is as it should be. It probably isn't even up to driving through the bad parts of DC or Detroit.

@buick61: That has always been the case. The reason smart people buy Hondas is because they'll only have to be at the dealer's mercy once. I'm saying this having worked for a Honda dealer in college too. The Honda sales team was arrogant, even though the time of waiting lists and customers bringing bribes was years…

@lilwillie: That wasn't apparent to me last year, when my company vehicles included 3 2008 Suburbans and a Cadillac DTS. Nor was it apparent when they were taking all that tax money. Give me a break.

@lilwillie: The left was always going to try to find a way of making GM cars seem competitive. If you can't bring them up to the level of their competitors...

@01NB: smug emitting bastard: GM has us taxpayers to clean up their mess.

@FromaBuick6: You can bet that they knew about the KdF connection and had a private chuckle too.