This just goes to show that my push to “Cancel 5 am” should be renewed. 

It is that simple. Everyone just wants everyone else to do it, shouldn’t have to be me.

I’m not anti-Tesla, but I had an Uber ride in one and was unimpressed. My return trip in the back of a hybrid Corolla was better. You can sell on hype and prestige for only so long.

I tend to agree, but the reality distortion field is still pretty strong. I just spoke to a parent at my son’s school who got a Model Y a couple of weeks ago. From the way he talks about this car, you would think he’d encountered the second coming of Christ. A lot of people are still in awe of Tesla.

For real, an electric Miata is my only hope for an EV I’d actually buy from literally any manufacturer, based on anything I’ve seen.

Mazda doesn’t even have a hybrid model available in the US, which in current year seems crazy

I hate to admit but the corporatization of electric vehicles through use in delivery services really ought to help to accelerate the need for more charging stations, a more reliable and faster-charging chemistry, and less public stigma. If only the USPS could have done this... but we settled for more gas guzzlers…

A friend of mine once crashed at 70 mph into a stopped semi and only survived due to modern crash protections; he too had woken up at 5 a.m. to drive to work. The one time I drove nonstop from Miami to Brooklyn, by the time I got to NJ I was too tired to be safe on the road but felt like I had to keep going because I…

“rotting in the county jail.”

That does make sense (though being a “good kid” has nothing to do with it), it still sucks though and I think he should at least have to go through drivers school and a possible... “he comes from a proud law enforcement family.” -Ah ok then

Only thing I forgot to add is these older BMWs can be an ok deal if you do your own work. My brother has had somewhere between a 5-10 older 3 and 5 series. He has a lot more repair stories than I have for my Lexus IS300, but if you do it yourself and stay on top of known issues like cooling systems, it doesn’t sound…

Tell me you’re an E39 fanboi without telling me you’re an E39 fanboi, I’ll go first :D.

131k isn’t crazy, and I guess it comes with the territory when you are looking for cars that haven’t been in the snow and live where they could be driven year round. There’s plenty of rusty 80-90k mile ones around me. And I’m not expecting a 50k mile show piece at this price.  But it needs solid service records and…

Agree. And if you can do it yourself, a way to get a bargain.

I’m just suspicious of any 540i ad which doesn’t mention the guides.

IDK; I mean...it’s a 20 year old, enthusiast car-how many miles should it have on it? People complain when they sit in vacuum-sealed garages and say “cars are meant to be driven!”...then someone actually drives them and then it’s “this car has too many miles!”. I have a newer car with more miles on it TBH and would…

If it was a reasonable price and needed timing chain guides I would do it. Not exactly trivial to replace but there is a well worn pathway on how to do it.

This has enough new tech to make it a safe and comfortable daily or cruiser. Enough juice and pedals to make it fun, and enough analog buttons to satisfy a Luddite like me, and it still looks like a BMW should, not a bloat d version of what a BMW should look like with a bloated kidney grill. A lot to like here, is it…

Can always count on the anti-union shills to pop up as soon as they smell a chance to go after workers organizing. Must be a lucrative job, fighting to keep lower & middle class folks in their place on behalf of a corporation.

Second Wow, I never realized that. Your photo definitely does look better. I assume they did that to make trunk more accessible? I can’t imagine why else they would have.

Reverse: The Britannic actually sank faster than the Titanic. Even though it had been extensively upgraded because of the Titanic.