Back to listening to my engine violently ping, I guess. It hates anything less than 91 octane, and it’s not even anything fancy, just a 2.5L straight 6 making 189hp with 10:1 compression.

The other problem is that all the technology that these new SUV’s use to provide the “magic” in the handling, aka active dampers, active sway control, advanced stability control, all of that is prone to failing and is quite expensive to repair. Compare that to an older sports car where you just replace shocks and…

I do love a good E39, but my car of choice at the moment is my 1992 525i/5. It’s got 303k miles and it’s a blast to drive, even without having much horsepower.

How much did BMW pay you to write this? And have you ever driven an actually good BMW, like something from the 90's or early 2000's?

That’s unfortunate, but on the bright side, automatics and DCT’s are as good as ever, so at least you won’t be suffering too badly. That and EV’s don’t have manuals either.

250k isn’t that much for an E36, I’ve seen plenty of them with 300k or more. Heck, a friend of mine in Atlanta has an E36 328i with like 435k miles that he’s daily driving to try and get it to 500k, as far as I know it still has its original motor and transmission, it was just maintained very well throughout its life.

Every time I see your car I get lurid thoughts and find myself going on Autotempest uncontrollably. I miss my 95 318ti, it was a lot of fun to drive and it made going anywhere feel like an occasion. That and it was so darn easy to work on... I did a cooling system and clutch on it in record time.

It’s like a worse-built, uglier Porsche 944 with the finest in British electronics and interior build quality. Was the person that stitched the interior drunk or something? I don’t see a single straight line there.

Synthetic fuels, hydrogen, ethanol, whatever. Something you can put into an existing ICE motor to keep it going... the average age of a car on the road nowadays is 12 years, so buying a new EV clearly isn’t an option for everyone. Used EV’s are a potential can of worms with decreased range and shoddy parts…

Agreed, all these electric cars feel like a beta test program for early adopters rather than something that should be forced upon the general population. For a very specific subset of the population that lives in a single-family house with a charger and drives a short distance to a white-collar job with chargers in…

I don’t understand the condescending tone I see from media publications regarding companies continuing to make ICE engines... I for one, am happy to see that companies aren’t going all-in on EV’s, because there’s still a lot of people that prefer the range, reliability, and sounds of ICE engines. You’ll have to pry my…

A friend of mine rolled a bunch of negative equity from several ill-advised car purchases into a Toyota RAV4... it ended up being a $48,000 RAV4, which almost became a running joke in my friend group due to it being an extremely base FWD RAV4 costing more than a Limited.

The reality is that despite what media outlets claim, ICE vehicles will be around for long enough that the current generation of technicians can probably go most of (if not all of) their life without ever having to work on an EV. I don’t intend to own or work on EV BMW’s at my shop any time soon, I stay more than busy…

That seems to be the way most independent shops are going everywhere. For example, I own one of the only shops in the Phoenix, AZ area that’ll touch a BMW that’s pre-2000. I’ll happily work on anything from the 70's and up. Hell, I’d rather work on older BMW’s than anything after 2005 anyways... plastic garbage.

A perfect use for this song:

A big part of it is emissions and crash safety. Since each Singer starts as a 964 and retains its VIN, it is not subject to modern emissions or crash safety standards. That’s how they can get away with still having air-cooled engines and no airbags despite being an almost completely new car (I think only the base…

I drove 12,500 miles in the last 5 months. Even less of a candidate, lol. My commute is only 7 miles each way, most of the mileage was me having fun going on road trips and driving canyon roads.

I am not even remotely considering an EV, but I am also never buying a new car either, so my opinion doesn’t really count anyways.

I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve used AM radio in my 30 years of existence... I’m far more likely to reach for my phone in an emergency than any radio station.

I worked on an S2 Cabriolet at my shop a few years back, crazy to see one in person considering how uncommon they are.