especially coming from someone living in a country that made it’s living by fighting wars until it expanded to the point where it was no longer able to keep up with itself.

To be perfectly clear, every single country on the planet was created by colonizers/conquerors. Not one country can lay claim to being run/ruled by its original inhabitants in a single, unbroken chain. The United States(and really all of North and South America) just happen to be a bit more recent than others.

The 4GC is a liftback with a flat folding rear seat, giving it more interior space than the 3. And I think it looks better.

They aren’t removing the RWD 2-series coupe.  They are adding a FWD 2-series 4-door.

Because the next get 2-series coupe that replaces the current-gen 2-series coupe will remain RWD. They are simply adding a 4 door 2 series that is FWD. They are removing zero RWD cars from the lineup, and adding one extra car that happens to be FWD.

The current 2 series is a coupe only. The new 2 series will split, and have a chassis for the 2-door RWD coupe and a different chassis for the 4-door FWD/AWD gran coupe.

If it allows them to make proper BMWs than what is the issue? If it wasn’t for these cars we wouldn’t get the M2/3/4/5/6/8 that we get today.  It’s a necessary evil if you want to continue to get greatness from the ‘traditional’ lineup.

Wikipedia has a fairly long list of airline crashes due to pilot error here.  It’s not comprehensive, but it shows how often a crash is due to a human failing at flying a plane.  Most recent entry is TransAsia Airways flight 235 2/6/15.  The plane suffered a flame out in one of its 2 engines, the pilot shut down the…

don’t even need to do that.  First stop you make from speeds above 30mph is enough to knock off your average day-to-day rust.

Meyle has some really cheap rotors(~$150 for a full set of 4) with a really good coating on them. I have a street set and a second set for track days, never have any rust outside of the swept area on either set. Even the vanes remain rust free. I drive the car year-round through CT winters(used to be NJ and MD…

Or you weld the glass to a metal frame and simply bolt a new windshield in with a gasket, rather than having to deal with the adhesives.  Depending on production costs it could end up cheaper, or even user replaceable.

Go masturbate to an abortion you slut!

Keep up on your engine and transmission mounts and it shouldn’t ever happen.

It wasn’t just the early e36 M3's that did this, any e36 was more than capable of performing this feat, I nearly did it in a 328is. To be fair to the e36 though, this would only happen if your motor mounts were shot. Basically under heavy load with a bad drivers side motor mount the engine could twist itself and the…

Wait. Let me get this straight. They spent all the kids inheritance(and probably college money) on a show car, then spent even more money (albeit, much less than the car) on little dolls that represent this fact? Talk about twisting the knife.

They are limited to 112mph, so governor removal will become a booming business. As will wrecking companies when their tires inevitably explode because they were only rated to do 112.

To counter your anecdotal evidence, here is mine. My father did oil changes no less than 5k miles apart, usually 7.5-10k. He got an Audi 5000 to 450,000 miles, a ‘97 740iL to 350,000, and currently has an ‘09 750Li with all the Dinan goodies at 175,000(engine was replaced ~10k miles ago due to an oil line blowing out…

also Ascari, they’ve used the S62 in several cars, Weisman also used the S54 and currently uses the S63

I wouldn’t be shocked to see upper 3's out of the X3/4M. BMW always errs on the conservative side when quoting 0-60 times.  See the M5's claimed 3.2 sec 0-60 that C&D measured at 2.8.

I paid $1600 for an ‘84 318i with a 5-speed with 100k miles in 1998, and that might have been a bit of a reach. No way in hell this car is worth more than double that.