If you can find one from a PRIVATE SELLER who has MAINTENANCE RECORDS, there isn't much to be afraid of. Take it to a BMW specialist (check bimmershops.com), and have them do a full, paid PPI. If you want more info, reply, and I'll tell you everything I learned from buying and (slowly) repairing my E39 530i.

Yessir; safe, too! oppositelock.jalopnik.com/1637791157

I can verify this fact... A 95 Camry V6 with 225k feels ... good, stable, safe, even ... at 12 x10^1 mph. Not to mention that the Camry will default to safe understeer at the limit, and the back will never slide around.

Have you ever tried to find a manual sport package 6-cylinder E39? I looked for 6 months in SoCal, where there are hundreds of I6 E39s whose second owners are dumping them as they get more expensive, and I saw a grand total of 1 (!) that didn't have over 125,000 miles, had been maintained well, and had the above…

Hey! I bought this car! Well, not this exact car, but a black/black 2003 530i.

The F12 and its "Aero Bridges" have nothing on this!

Hey! You spent less on your Ferrari for a year than I've spent on my 03 e39 530i in 2 months! 0_0 Of course, nearly totaling the car didn't help... Seriously, though, thanks for the great articles! It's been amusing to see you live with the prancing horse, and I loved your book!

http://circuitoftheamericas.com/f1/prohibited-… Why does the FIA prohibit video recording? Are they worried it will steal viewers?

Remember the wide field-of-view on the Go Pros. If you look at the cars, they almost seem to slow down they travel through the edges of the field of view (making him look faster).

If you pull a fuse. In cars like my Mom's Genesis sedan, pulling the fuse disables ABS, ESC, and TC.

If this had happened once, I would've dismissed it as an unusual occurrence. But it happened repeatedly; over, and over, and over again, with all sorts of different vehicles. One guy in a GMC Yukon, lazily driving along and texting when I passed him somewhere in central Virginia, sped up to more than 100 mph to…

Here's that video.