Especially rental cars.
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Wired magazine covered this a little while back, in more depth.
I applaud that level of gimmick detail. I really do. You want to know what else I would applaud?
This was just on Bringatrailer.com. It didn’t meet reserve at $38k.
“I can hear it costing me money from here!”
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Loves me some Leo.
With the original 1970 cylinder head, I’d be wary but not actually nervous. They hated anything resembling heat, and would crack if you nuked your gas station burrito too long. The original Solex/Zenith carbs were garbage, too.
To those of us with literally decades of BMW E3 experience, this is no surprise.
We’ve had a 1967.5 Datsun Roadster in the family for close to 30 years. We restored the body right around the time we brought it home, and have maintained it since.
E3s are awesome machines. A relatively decent one will just work. I have many years and thousands of miles in an E3 driver’s seats. I would have driven my old one to the moon and back.
Throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s, local members of the church were keen on vandalizing the car.
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Nevada. Slightly more putty than Sahara, which was the tannest of tans.
They are cheap garbage. They just happen to start off expensive.
My experience ended a few years ago, but at the time the manual transmissions were pretty stout. The few issues we had were user-generated. Early DSGs (circa-2006) had problems that were, at the time, seemingly sorted with recalls. We’d still replace some on a regular basis. Traditional automatics lived okay lives,…
Five years as a VW service advisor at a super-high volume VW-only store near Minneapolis. Cannot agree enough or star more.
Kidding and schizophrenia aside, that is preposterously lovely.
If your car has only two pedals and the ability to shift for itself, it is an automatic. Full stop.
It’s Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, about an hour and change east of Palm Springs.