Definitely alcantara. My ZHP sedan had the same wheel, but in better condition and with more buttons. That one must be a CSL version or something with just the one button.

The screens aren’t bad at all on my wife’s X3. Not overly bright and don’t mess up your night vision. Each driving mode has its own theme for the cluster and the HUD. I can’t imagine turning these off like the poster suggested below.

Interesting story, thanks. 

Pre-LCI E90s are bad. 

I don’t disagree completely considering I loved the stock exhaust on my ZHP sedan, but I think with the shape and placement of the final muffler on most of these BMWs it almost doesn’t make sense for it to not be a dual exit setup. You can see the muffler on the F25 above stretched across the width of the rear end. 

Pretty subtle on the M40i version too.

Yep, and meanwhile BMW is still putting real exhausts(that sound good) and regular D pillars on their cars. Can’t compete on price though.

I have always preferred the sport or m-sport appearance packages of BMWs. To me it seems like they sabotage the normal version of all their cars to make more money selling the sport packages. 

This and the M5 are the best looking versions of the E60

I was 9 or 10 and went on a ~500 mile road trip with my Dad and some of his co-workers to the NAPA 500. Good quality time with him and a heck of an experience in person. Not much into NASCAR these days, but still attribute my love of cars and motorsports to him.

Looks like when the ES300 wasn’t far from being a nicer version of a Camry.

I usually am buckled if I’m in a vehicle, but I don’t think I’ve ever been in one that complained if I wasn’t while I was in Park.

You have replied already to this post from 2015... I get it. 

I pasted the link in my post but it apparently didn’t take. 

English language broadcast... 

True story. Teen in 00s and first car was a 95 240sx that I’m already getting more and more nostalgic about. Even though it was slow as fuck and beat to hell for the most part. I don’t even know what I’m going to do when they start popping up on import websites from japan once they reach 25yrs old. 

Those mirrors are nice. 

Those are just straight up BMW mirrors. 

#COTD

Wow, I thought they were unfinished wheels or trying out different colors until I saw the light spokes were different from the dark spokes. They’re god awful. I can’t stand black wheels, but these bright-surface-black-inside wheels almost worse it seems. Honda came out with some ugly ones for sure.