Miles don’t scare me at all. I recently bought a 2001 BMW 540i with just over 200k miles. It needed a fair bit of engine work (timing chain guides, valley pan gaskets, valve cover gaskets, etc), but after I fixed those things the engine ran pretty smoothly. It’s been an Arizona car its whole life, so it’s had 200k…

My opinion goes like this... everything done in the name of driver safety has pissed off drivers. We need to get back to our roots, a country willing to gable a little for a good time. Nascar went from something that could have been in the x games 30 years ago to... ~meh.

Within NASCAR? It’s perfectly acceptable. Just like hitting your opponent with a handily placed folding chair is in its equivalent physical sport.

shitty article. I clicked an article to read an article not to read the description of a video.

I’m just going to say it. I hate that stupid song. I hate the shirt.

As the former owner of an E36 M3, the 2x parts cost claim is without basis. Simply not true. Parts all cost the same for these things. Now, as for my E30 M3, that’s a different story :).

If you think the toyobaru is better than a 335i, you must not have ever actually owned either....

I’d say that BMW is becoming more Mini then, not the other way around.

Why do people always equate more available power with a lack of handling or feel? ...as if it is somehow some sort of correlating mutual exclusivity. Even 250-ish horsepower and torque from an engine with minimal additional weight would turn Miata into an industry-beating sports car. 275-300+ horsepower could do the…

you sir, can kindly get the fuck out of here buy suggesting they close the TT.

So they won’t consider adding a turbo, but they’ll consider borrowing a competitor’s platform and re-engineering everything around it?

Lol, and what, pray tell, do you need “pecific bmw tools” for?

Same. Why is everyone on an “enthusiast” site afraid of enthusiast cars and doing a little work? Starting to become incredibly tiresome.

I follow these, too...because I price *everything* online. For a 2011 (first year of the LCI/facelift model for the coupe and cabriolet)...sure, $20K-$25K is about the price range you can expect for one with reasonable miles on it. But a 2007 is, on average, going to be well under $20K...and many are at or under that…

I agree that ‘95 is the year to have. The fact that many states with emissions testing have exempted OBD 1 cars is just gravy. Clean OBD 1 M3s will be the first E36s to start appreciating.

Not a bad car, but the 1995 M3 (coupe that year) is the E36 to have. It was the only year you could get them with the OBD 1 motor, and there weren’t many imported (relative to later years). Yes the OBD 1 motor is .2 liters smaller, and dow 14 ft-lb torque, but it’s far easier to free up extra power out of.

I purchased my e90 M3 with the DCT because I was surprised by how good/fun/fast it was. Plus, after years and years of owning manual-only cars (save for my 335d which I had no choice on), I felt maybe it was time to give something else a shot. I do find the DCT quite involving, and another perk is I don’t have to take…

It’s probably for the best that you’ve chosen to leave.

You are aware that in much of the USA there is no bus to take right?

Oh yeah, I can think of one gesture iDrive veterans will want to try right away.