NASCAR can't pretend everything is honky dory until it's proven otherwise.

Cough E60 Cough

God this thing is ugly and it's more expensive than the S? Skip it entirely and release the 3 already. This thing is a waste.

Yes and in this case, even with the warranty Carmax is almost never the best deal. They're almost never even a good deal.

With an M5 perhaps, yes. With most other BMWs that's going to be unlikely. I'm on my third and it's been largely trouble-free. My 550 had a tick under 100k on it when I sold it and the only problem I ever had with it was a slow leak from the coolant expansion tank.

Good point. Most aftermarket companies won't touch Range Rovers or Jaguars. When I had my M5 I had to pay $5000 for a 3 year warranty and only one company would cover it but I can get a used 2006 M5 for low $20,000s without much fuss and maybe a few more miles so now you're looking at probably a $7000 premium over…

And I certainly can't fault them for it. It's good business if someone is willing to pay that much for peace of mind but from the perspective of he consumer, even with the great warranty Carmax is rarely a hit and more often a miss.

I bought my 18 month old BMW from a Lexus dealership as a CPO car and probably saved a few thousand versus what I would have paid from a BMW dealership. When you consider how short people generally keep cars like these, it does present a problem.

Doug got me looking into this because it would allow me to look at cars I otherwise wouldn't consider but the "tax" you're paying for this is a lot higher than first glance would suggest.

The car kind of sucked. It was heavy, slow, loud, not particularly fuel efficient, had short all electric range and suffered from a myriad of bugs. As a competitor to the Tesla it was a complete failure. It's basically an expensive plug in hybrid.

They fixed this on the A8. Switch the air suspension to lift mode and you get another 2 inches of clearance. When I lived in Chicago we got something like 20 inches of snow one night. I put it in lift mode and pushed the snow right out of the driveway and then took it out joy riding. It's a liberating feeling…

You think that's bad… My 535 is an M-Sport which is neither an M5 nor an M535. I remember the good old days when it was series (5) followed by engine displacement (2.8) followed by fuel type (i for fuel injected) and then bam: 528i. Want to add all wheel drive? 528ix.

That same model now would be the M-Sport 540…

The H3 in Oahu. On the southern side it takes you over a rain forest and immerses you in the natural environment as much as any expressway can but the real reward comes after you reach the tunnel and find yourself exiting on the windward side of the island, hundreds of feet up, hugging the cliff sides. Water falls…

$30,000 is the new $20,000… It's been this way for some time now and nobody is cross shopping a Mustang and a Camry so what you can build a Mustang for really isn't relevant unless it's direct competition to the Camry.

It will be a 4 door coupe station wagon SUV. They'll call it the X8 Gran Coupe xDrive Efficient Dynamics. It will be great. It will be confusing.

Because Michigan. Wasn't the entire state of Michigan in foreclosure at one point? :-)

I don't think you're in on the joke...

I think at some point the requirement to have an emergency brake was relaxed and the parking brake took it's place, mostly because modern systems just don't fail completely (split master cylinders and whatnot) and because the emergency brakes generally did a piss poor job of stopping the car as they only engaged the…

Hat tip to the original BMW halo. This example compliments of my 535.

I moved here from Chicago... This is still shorts weather.