Man, I remember buying two L322's for dirt cheap... one was a 2004 with 160k miles for $3000, and the more recent one was a 2003 with 102k miles for $800. I sense those kinds of deals are long gone now...

Welcome to the Bring a Trailer phenomenon, where hype wins out over reason and vehicles sell for too much. Especially with how much hype anything JDM gets nowadays.

It’s not that crazy when you consider how much Singer is charging for their 911 builds, and they can’t seem to keep up with demand!

Man, I love the 88. It’s one of my favorite roads in the Phoenix area. I go there at least once or twice a month, usually late at night so as to avoid the traffic. With a properly set up car on sticky tires, I can easily do 40mph through most of those turns. It really is one of those roads that you really have to know…

Nope, still looks bad now. If you’re not a fan of old BMW’s, you won’t really understand why people disliked the Bangle era of design. I (and many others) liked BMW for their handsome, subtle designs from the 70's through the 90's, with each successive generation being an iterative improvement.

Yeah, I don’t like how things changed. I liked the old BMW where the changes were incremental and the styling was conservative. I don’t want flamboyant styling in my cars, I want good build quality and a subtle design that doesn’t draw any attention.

Fuel injection is pretty useful, I suppose. Mostly because I don’t enjoy messing around much with carburetors. Otherwise I don’t really need anything else modern... my car doesn’t have keyless entry, traction control, or any kind of screens.

How much oil does it consume? Those N63's don’t exactly have a great track record.

For sure, I get that it’s just there to cover up the ugly bits, but it really seems like they phoned it in on the design. Good old Land Rover laziness I guess.

I know this is nit-picking, but man that 5.0 engine cover is so damn ugly. It looks like zero effort was put into designing it to look nice.

Mine would be mostly old BMW’s, like the E12 M535i, E23 745i, E24 M6, E28 M5, E34 M5, E32 750il, E36 M3, E39 M5, Z3 M-Coupe, L322 Range Rover, and a Ferrari 348. That would keep me happy for a very long time (and fixing them all would keep me busy).

I love these so much, I use them all the time at my shop. I have yet to see one fail (if installed correctly). Pro tip, you can get these way cheaper by buying a knockoff. I’ve got a set of Sopoby branded connectors that are like $25 for a big case of them, they work just as well as the genuine ones.

Go on eBay or Amazon and look up Sopoby connectors. Same exact thing but way way cheaper.

I remember one time I ran out of gas in my 2000 BMW 540it and had to push it a few blocks to the nearest gas station. Pushing a 4000lb car on a busy street was not fun, I almost felt like throwing up after I got to the gas station.

Fair enough. Roadkill is just a popular show amongst car people, and lots of people on Jalopnik have seen it. I’m not a big fan of American cars or V8's but I still love watching them put together hoopties for our amusement.

Have you ever watched Roadkill? This car actually was built in a junkyard using nothing but junkyard parts, that was the whole premise.

Mmmm that looks like a BMW M62 V8. Which means it leaks oil from every orifice and has timing chain guide problems (which is more an age thing than a mileage thing due to brittle plastic). That being said, somebody who can afford to buy one of these can likely afford to pay a specialist to drop the engine out when it…

This, 100%.

While some of it is blatant markup for the sake of being German (particularly oil changes and simple maintenance), a lot of jobs on German cars do just involve more time due to complexity. For example, a timing chain replacement on a Ford Modular V8 is around 11 hours book time, whereas the same service on a BMW M62tu…

Money. The car enthusiasts that are also watch enthusiasts happen to either be wealthy or come from wealth (ie: inheriting a Rolex from a parent). Cars are expensive, and so are fine watches. It’s just another way for rich people to flex their wealth. And that’s also the same reason I’m not into watches, because I’m po…