Dang! This one stings but it is so true!

Thank you, thank you for saying what a lot of us must have been thinking!

I have a 2001 525i Touring witg manual transmission. There is a string of fixes you need to.make around 100k then they are dead reliable. Bimmer forums for these cars are the best help I have seen anywhere.

Sometimes I struggle to understand their criteria to choose COTD ...

It appears that we agree on the main point - rest is just gravy. Enjoy your manual transmission car.

As much as I don’t want to get into this...

So buy it just because it’s has a manual transmission? What if there are other aspects of the car that don’t make it as appealing as other competitors?

Aaand, he was actually paid to spew out this crap! <face palm>

So you conveniently forgot to mention the touchless car wash altogether? Is that because it did not fit neatly in your narrative of automatic car wash = bad and hand wash = good?

That’s a nice Corolla.

“... me and Jason Torchinsky found some real weird shit when we started looking...”

Thanks for educating me.

Muwahaha! Karma is a bitch innit!

“Just rub the lotion on your skin and you should buy yourself a decent amount of time.”

Explains so much!

I hear ya about 3.0L engine swap, but I am wary of used M54 engines, so many have been overheated post a catastrophic cooling system failure.

Cough, BS. Cough..

I plead the fifth...

My e39 wagon salutes your wagon as it’s puny 2.5L M54 is unable to do most of the things you mentioned.

... or, or even unfathomably wealthy now!