At least I don’t live in Jersey.

I’ve done a lot of work in the Woodcliff Lake area, and it’s a very great place and beautiful in many ways. But much like nice parts of Long Island (which are similarly attractive in their residential areas) it still has undertones of uncleanliness and poor infrastructure, and not somewhere I would describe as…

Consider yourself welcome to visit Vermont anytime, and afterwards you can join in chuckling at the “beautiful” pictures in the main comment.

Cherry Hill. And after living in Vermont for about 15 years on and off, the pictures in the main comment are still laughably unsightly.

As someone who was born in Jersey, lived there for a few years, and has family there, I guarantee that if you turned the camera to the ground (or any there angle) there would be trash everywhere. And it would probably smell like a landfill.

There was a guy on the OppositeTalk Facebook group who tried to follow Tavarish’s advice and was quoted a hilarious interest rate and repayment time trying to buy a $25k Quattroporte. Tavarish’s advice is based on a world where people buy $40,000 cars cash and don’t need to rely on a car as transportation, and where…

It sounds like a clusterfuck (and is, even if you can clean them by blowing out the circuit board), but even the E34 had that setup (it debuted on the E32 7-series). The seats were also massively heavy to integrate the seatbelt, and the famous “two engines” conundrum with the V12 was because Motronic (which my…

It isn’t okay.

The BMW will likely go for $9,000-12,000.

This was in reference to the $2,500 six-speed 850i, which will likely go for at least $9,000, but probably closer to $12-15,000.

That was an issue with cars under 60,000 miles. Anything by this point has either had the engine replaced under warranty, or sealed itself and is no longer a problem. http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthre…

That was an issue with cars under 60,000 miles, and mostly with 3.0-liter engines (although the 4.0 cars—but not the 4.4 cars—were also affected). But it literally doesn’t matter anymore. The blocks were either replaced under warranty, or sealed themselves.

This 2002tii is on Bring a Trailer. The current bid is $2,002. Does that make it a “bargain” even if it’s going to sell for $15,000-20,000? The current bid on a car—particularly on one that has not met reserve—means literally nothing.

I love the perfect subtlety in adapting the Mazda quote.

It would seem you live somewhere where people buy parkas for 45º weather. In real winters, plastics get brittle and crack. Hoses shrink and break. Fluids do strange, strange things. I have a non-heated garage and for a car that’s stored out of the salt, the cold is a huge challenge.

But... But...

The M62 is different. I’ve owned two E39s, two E24s, and been a CCA member since I was 15. BMWs are generally quite reliable, and even when they’re broken, they’ll still work in their broken states (which is why so many become neglected basket cases). But the M62 (and any BMW V8, really) has a character all its own…

Massive power and a generally more bespoke feel. The E39 M5 is a legend and a supercar, and true to all of BMW M’s history, there are quirks about the car that make it feel very different. The 540i, in comparison, is a fairly quick version of a mass-produced chassis. There are certain cars where the highest “normal”…

Fixed. Everyone told you NOT to buy an M62 car for this exact reason. NOW can you finally stop telling people who can’t afford an M5 to buy a car with the disaster of an engine that is a high-mile M62?

I forget sometimes that $4,000 is a large repair. I would’ve loved a $3,800 warranty on my old E39, which cost over $6000 (and that’s at indy rates with not-always-OEM parts) in repairs in the year or so that I owned it. Or even for the $4,500 I just put into my E24 6-series (although that was a full re-sealing of the…