Tavarish - you are right on the money with this one. As a lifelong BMW customer, I’ve finally had enough with their bullshit engines and have officially quit the brand. The timing chain issues are what finally did me in. Not only do the timing chains stretch and snap, but BMW has brilliantly decided to make timing…

And the whole pen story is completely apocryphal. The Space Pen was privately developed by Fisher and gifted to NASA. American Astronauts used pencils, just like their Russian counterparts, until the pen came into being.