This is 100% the dealer's fault. Remote start in a manual car is stupid, but so are ghetto rims and stereos. That doesn't mean that dealer employees are free to crack 'dubs' in potholes or blow speakers listening to rap music. It was a dealer employee that parked this car in gear with the brake off. It was a dealer…

@sos10: Are you sure? It really does look like a Chrysler 300 with a body kit, but they've got three hundred and ten million dollars of Obama 'crisis' money to stimulate the German economy with. They'd have needed a real business plan back in 2007.

@boomchek: I was thinking 300 with Mitsubishi lights.

@maximum-sienna: How cheap can they be? We're already on the hook with a three hundred and ten million dollar loan from the Department of Energy to fund this hoax. I can't say much more without violating the censorship edicts here.

They've got a crack pipe dream and they're starting by spending a fortune in a foreign country, so a great big stimulus check from Obama must be in the mail. The only question is whether it will be more or less than Tesla received to fund their private aviation.

I wouldn't give a crap if the Chinese were knocking off 1963 Plymouth Valiants. In fact, I'd celebrate it. This is nothing like copying a current GM product. Nobody can damage GM's image, although I'd have said the same before they managed to do just that by getting in bed with the tyrants in DC. Hopefully GM will…

Does it weigh at least 5,000 lbs? I hope so!!! BMWs are AWSOME!!!!

Iran still has the Peugeot 405. They deserve no better.

@vavon205: When I was a very little kid our next door neighbors supplemented their '66 VW Beetle with a Fiat 128 4-door sedan. It was quite an advanced car 40 years ago, maybe not so much when Zastava was still selling them in 1984. It was definitely a step up from the best-seller Fiat 127 that was reskinned to…

@SupermotoThud: Looks like a couple of U-joints under the dash leading to the OE location hole in the floor.

@Lead_Head: On the other hand, I used by in place of buy while being condescending. Arrgh.

@CJinSD: From the Iconic website FAQ section:

There is plenty of rhetoric proclaiming the chassis to be strong, but the section of the frame visible under the passenger side floor looks fully taxed by display use. And why does it need what look like five stereo amplifiers? I for one don't think removing the body is enough to fix this thing's looks.

There is really nothing you can do to disguise the ugly that is the E65 BMW. Maybe they could hire the COT guy to do the next generation of disappointments.

@snapoversteer's profile on Sikes's website has a misleading picture: It used to be that the Ferrari dealer here only ever had 4 seaters in stock, 612s and Maseratis. Now they are renting adjacent buildings to fill up with new 430s, so maybe we won't have Ferrari to kick around forever.

@rb1971 - E39M5'er: I didn't even know that M-Coupes had E36 rear suspensions. I unlearn something every time Graverobber posts.

If they had done this with a 318is that had fallen victim to a profile gasket or a snapped rubber band M20, I'd think it was a cool ride. Engine swap in an E30 M3? I wouldn't care if it was $3,995. Crack.

@rb1971 - E39M5'er: If your friend had an original V6 '68 Firebird, that would have been worth a fortune. What is the world coming to when BMW types think inline 6 and V6 are interchangeable terms?

Gives up a little more than 20 ponies to the M5? The US model E28 M5 with 256 hp or the Euro M28 M5 with 286 hp? Either way, math is not your friend.

Kristie Alley.