I guess I am the same age or a year or two older than you, I had E30's when I was young and that’s the one car I get most regretful about no longer having now. M3's, sure, they were cheaper than now but they were never actually cheap, and running an S14 was always expensive. A 325iS that lasts forever? Those were…

I think the Stinger has way too many vents, too much going on. I’ve seen this and the to-be-released Hyundai platform mate in person, I’d recommend you wait to see the Hyundai Genesis version, is it the G70? It seems like it’s coming out right after this at another show (I think Seoul has a motor show in the…

If you look at the prototypes thus far it seems they are all running on M4 wheels, this time it’s the base 18"s and last time I saw the 20" comp wheels painted black. Seems like a lot of the running gear will be BMW, which makes sense since all of this testing is being done in Germany at M. There’s no way this thing…

Nah, I live in Asia. The M3/M4 has always been a 100-120k car outside of the US. The M2 at 75k msrp is on one hand, a lot of money, but on the other hand, pretty good all things considered, and where in the US the M2 to M3 price difference is like $10k, it’s silly that the price jump is $40k here between the two, so…

The M2 is on my radar as well. Where I live though, the inexplicably stupid pricing has the M2 at 75kUSD, the M4 is now 115K, which makes the M2 a relative ‘bargain’ - But other cars I could get for the same 75K as the M2: dealer-maintained low mileage F430 coupe (with a tiny warranty!) decently low mileage and clean…

Can’t get behind the looks of the 1M though. The M2 is better.

they do sound nice, but I wouldn’t call the flares/gills/vents/added badging on the BS to be understated.

Ah shit, read the article hoping it was Mike Skinner from The Streets with a new gig

I go down there from Korea almost every month on work and love the more restrained car culture - yes, a few tuned cars with shit on them that takes you back to the year 1999 but also lots of cars that are still just as they were made. Here we have asshats with their first ever import cars - which become neon blue…

Stock is best! Hong Kong, btw?

That black Gt3 looks so nice. And the seats!

Me too, man. And as an aside, I also love McNuggets. I’m sure this doesn’t help at this point, but there’s a guy who calls himself ‘DaveG’ doing an Alpina touring replica..... nut and bolt. Has taken a RHD 320i and putting in a hotted-up M20 in it and generally making it brand new and perfect. Epic 30 page build…

Fast isn’t an E30 thing, so get over that. Swaps sound like the coolest shit in the world and you imagine the cleanest bays with the most working A/C’s and everything playing your favorite cassette tapes, but inevitably you end up with a bunch of loose shit in the bay and no A/C while realizing swaps are kind of hard…

NP all the way. The dry parts alone are worth $15,000 parted out I’m sure. If it runs it’s worth more than that. Worst case? Maserati V8 swap your Miata, sell off the parts and break even, how could that be that bad? Come on. This thing is a steal.

I haven’t been going to Tokyo as much lately either, after 10 years of living there on/off. Next time you go to T-site, you could make a pretty serious run at ‘best day of my life for $20' if you grab the natural yeast croissant from Hillside Pantry next door to T-site, read a bunch of awesome books for awhile, and…

ah, that explains it. I love cars, but love books even more I guess - so didn’t look it over so much. Same time I was there, I saw a really nice red/grey 512BB across the street at Ristorante Aso.

If I had the money, I’d take both my Slovenian ex-model current wife, and my Slovenian current-model ex-wife and I’d have excellent side-impact protection.

Really useful if you have dogs (especially if they have bad hips or general trouble getting into a liftback area) - I have something similar to an xB just to take my Retriever places like the park nearby. She wouldn’t be able to get in the back of a wagon (too high) but can step into the flat floor and then onto the…

I agree with you all the way. Also, never saw the ‘base’ model before as I assumed the other was the base. btw, what is green and will depreciate like a rock?

The rims are terrible. But I can’t stop mentally associating the interior of this car with a pair of dirty white Asics.