I’d rather have an old Alfa with the original motor, it’s got so much character that electric cars just seem to lack. Crappy Italian wiring and finicky carbs are all part of the character.

I don’t want to own any. They’re all very expensive and I don’t ever want to buy/finance a new car, plus my credit sucks anyways. Even with the higher gas prices, it’s still cheaper for me to keep putting gas into my $1000 car for years and years. Used electric cars will have the same issues as used laptops and…

If there’s a silver lining to this gas price nightmare, it’s that maybe people will stop driving their gas-guzzling SUV’s and trucks quite as much. Bring back small cars!

Psh, 3000 at 70? That’s nothing. My E34 525i sits at like 3600 at 75-80, it’s fine. Somehow it manages 25-26mpg in highway driving so I ain’t complaining.

A friend of mine drove his questionable engine-swapped BMW 318ti on a 6 hour road trip with:

I liked my technoviolet M3 more.

My last car was 31 years old, and my current car is 32 years old. My other car is 27 years old. I’m sure a lot of us weirdos skew the average car age as our cars get older...

Phoenix would be cool. Lots of wide straight streets for fast runs, combine that with our abundant mountain roads and you could have a really cool course. There actually was a Grand Prix here from 1989 to 1991, super neat.

Seems a little tone-deaf to release this in an era of $5/gallon gas and climate change, but I guess there’s enough tasteless people that’ll buy these monstrosities.

My favorite are the people who claim to be libertarians because they don’t want to call themselves the forbidden R-word (Republican) meanwhile they spout the exact same garbage that the Republicans do, but somehow pretending it’s a different political wing makes it okay?

I don’t understand that at all, but okay. Design is always subjective. To me, the IX looks hideous, along with BMW’s entire lineup at this point, whereas the Land Rover stuff looks decent, mostly due to the fact that it’s an evolution of the existing styling rather than some redesign with needless creases and an…

On one hand, I’m happy to see that Land Rover is making a car in 2022 that doesn’t look like an angry beaver crossed with amateur origami, but on the other hand, that BMW N63 V8 is known to be a complete pile of shit, so this does not bode well for long-term reliability.

Man, I’d kill (not literally, of course) for $4.32 a gallon... I’m paying $4.70 here in Phoenix on the low end. Back when I moved here from NYC in 2014, gas was pretty cheap, but nowadays, gas in NYC is somehow cheaper than in Phoenix, so strange.

A big part of that is the never-ending fight for efficiency while putting out more HP/liter than ever before. Efficiency dictates using thinner oil for less friction, while clearances are tighter than ever to get as much power as possible. Modern BMW engines run at 220ºF with 11:1 compression, turbos, and 0W20 oil,…

It’s not so much the engineering, but more so the cost-cutting enforced by the accountants. Good engines go to hell really fast when metal components are replaced with plastic.

Well based on my experience with the BMW N63 V8, I know it’ll be a turd. Those engines have a myriad of issues, including insane oil consumption, bad valve stem seals, timing chain failures, oil pump failures, and never-ending oil and coolant leaks around the turbos. BMW has tried updating the engine a few times and…

I’m glad that people in the comments section still have working eyes, because this is possibly the ugliest 7 series that BMW has ever made. There’s really no redeeming qualities to any of it... the front is a mess, the headlights are a mess, the rear looks phoned in and lazy, the wheels are absolutely hideous, and…

I mean, compared to the turds that BMW is making nowadays, it’s child’s play. I run a BMW shop in Phoenix and the E36's are some of the more reliable cars of that vintage.

Honestly if your car is burning that much oil, forget running synthetic oil. Just buy the Supertech conventional oil from Walmart, it’s like $16 for a 5-quart jug.

Beautiful 318ti you have there!