Not crazy, but crazy I made it home. My alternator light came on in Death Valley and was making some crazy noise. We continued driving (160k mile E39 M5, 3 guys and all our camping gear) all the way to Yosemite, then San Francisco... Then nonstop 32 hour drive back to Indiana. The next morning the car wouldn’t crack…

Ummm don’t think you understand the concept of sunk cost. That’s a spent amount you can’t retrieve. The money you would spend on gas in the future is not sunk and therefore relevant to the total cost of ownership. You should determine how long you will probably own the car and see how much you will saveon fuel and…

Lexus is buying back new LS460 F-sports because the Brembo brake packs are too loud for their LS customers’ tastes. Zero issues with the car and it operates as it should, but the customers just wanted the F-sport looks without the performance parts. So if you want a perfectly fine, like new LS, go find a “Lemon”…

So when you factor in probabilities, you’re always better to volunteer. First, out of 100 passengers, you have a 1% chance of being the person selected to be bumped. Multiple that $1300 by .01 and suddenly your expected value isn’t so great. You could volunteer and have 100% chance (if you make it to the counter…

Because you could buy an American truck and have a face full of shrapnel AND a fire! USA! USA!

Ford, Chrysler and GM have more vehicles with the Takata airbag recall than Toyota and Nissan.

Just for the record, Toyota is replacing the entire frames on Tacomas that are up to 15 years old under “extended corrosion warranty” while covering months of rental cars. For the same reason, Toyota will STILL fix the head gaskets on early 90’s 4Runners that blow today, because high mileage models (150k+) tend to…

Toyota Avalon. It’s much smoother and quieter than a Town car and will last for three centuries and a nuclear winter before it needs even an oxygen sensor replaced. As for the 300 being unstoppable... Chrysler still builds garbage. Just highly polished garbage. My brother’s ‘13 300S has been a steaming turd. It’s…

Pilot’s tend to be overly cautious, as they should be. Maybe drone flyers should just GTFO of the area. This is equivalent to someone stopping traffic to film a car crash on their phone and slowing an ambulance down. It’s morbid, irresponsible and stupid.

Overtightening every bolt. Nobody I know has a torque wrench or torque specs for their cars.

“Accident” shifts the blame to an unnameable 3rd party. In Spanish, there is a grammatical form called the “passive se”, which implies an action “Just happened with Nobody specified”, and it can used to shift blame to a 3rd party that doesn’t exist.

If those are genuine M parallel wheels, then this is definitely a deal. I used to own a ‘97 and god, that was a great car.

with a Mazda engine & Toyota hybrid system, what did you expect?

Bought my e39 m5 for $9k a year and a half ago. Had someone offer $15k and I yput about $1500 into it. These will be a hell of a lot more expensive in a few years, so I never plan on selling my dream car.

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V8,wagon,stick. Pick two, you can't have it all on the e39.

When I graduate have money nd and need something more practical to daily than my e39 m5, a compact or subcompact CUV fits my needs the best. As a millennial that renegade is so far down my list. A Jeep with a fiat engine? No fuckin thanks man. I’ve heard too many bad stories about the supposedly much more reliable…

“The fuck did I buy the EyeSight package for then?”

I rented a 2014 X1 18d manual M-sport for a month and fell madly in love with it. It could still touch 130 MPH but got over 40 at reasonable speeds. Didn't bat an eyelash over some softroading and handled like an e90.

I meet at my bank during business hours. They always have a security guard and tons of cameras. Plus I never have to carry cash more than a couple of feet. I never take out money until I’ve made a deal and then go inside to hand it over.