My rule is to.never buy a rapidly depreciating, out of warranty, expensive to repair German car.  This one hits in two out of three, but is pretty much depreciated out, and it looks like it was adult owned and cared for.  Why the hell not?

If you have a business you can also get a tax break for buying the over 6000 pound vehicles even if a luxury car that just takes you to and from work.  A big chunk of the upper middle class loves these rules too.  They won't be going away anytime soon.  The government incentives EVs, but put much more money into…

On today’s market this looks to be priced so low that it is a scam, although scam listings usually don’t have that much car and contact information. Second guess is something major undisclosed wrong with the vehicle, or several middling sort of problems like HVAC or battery drain.  Maybe a Seinfeld car with a stank…

Dry grip for sure, serious autocrossers will shave new street tires to reduce squirm and get better performance. Rubber generally gets harder as it heat cycles and gets older. Which probably has an effect on winter traction as well.

Man, you guys with the bad Borgward Isabella stories are killing me.

I will renominate my Mom’s Ford Tempo. Oh, it was fairly reliable compared to a lot of the cars listed here, but so terrible to drive (and look at) that you kind of wished it would die already and put us all out of our misery.

What the eff. I know it is the obvious and expected answer, but you have a big family hauler, you have another vehicle that can hold the kids and their gear when needed, easily, without worry of turning an ankle if you step out of it wrong. Current generation Accord is a big car. Boomer checks in and says when we were…

Well you might say it was my dad’s Renault Dauphine, which had thirty some horsepower, our family’s first second car, but I thought it was kind of quirky and cool.

“Fine” Corinthian Leather

I am just fascinated that these little post war beasties and their various one and two cylinder cousins, are the darling of the collector car world. They were built to be the cheapest transportation with a lid that you could buy, and people bought them because they couldn’t afford to buy or run something better.

I have no idea what these should go for, but I do know I don’t want this car from this seller. Wants $80,000 for the car, take a damp rag to the dust and a vacuum to the interior and maybe pull the slurpee cup out Playa.

Looking at the pictures in the article thought it was pretty intriguing, went to the website to look at the detailed pics. Holy crap, I know it is twenty years old, but this thing has led a hard life (for a Mercedes).

That is a nice looking truck. Thing is it is still a truck. Would love a truck from this era (and this particular year is nice, with the earlier body style and better engine) but a little, umm, scruffier. I mean, it is nice an all, but I am not going polish on the weekend and admire it’s curves, or put it up n the…

Not the most memorable car, but they came in hard with the bird association.

Thanks, absolutely needed to be in the list.

No dice with the slush box, if it had the five speed...it wouldn’t have survived as the five speed is a popular choice for giving Austin Healey Sprites and Midgets a five speed conversion and proper highway gear, and they are pretty much unobtanium these days.

Join the BMW 2002 FAQ forum, lots of knowledge there, but ignore the crusty, "search the archives" on every question guys.

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…

I am sure it needs a lot, don’t forget to replace the guibo (rubber donut thing that does the same job as a u-joint marginally smoother and quieter, with appreciably shorter life).

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…