owlint
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owlint

lol you’re pretty fuckin stupid if you considered that an insight while typing it.

Any interest I have in getting a BMW will also get axed. I’ve had about 5 now, used of course, because I’m under 30 and trying to be smart with my money. But I wouldn’t be averse to getting a new one in future.

I driven new 3 series as a rental. Sure, the auto shifts quickly, but it still has that automatic kickdown, where you stomp the pedal and nothing happens for like 2 seconds. Sure it might still accelerate faster in the end, but it doesn’t fix the problem of feeling like a computer is deciding something for you. Same

Not just that, but with this car, it’s a misnomer to say that there’s was a tit for tat race ala the arms race. It’s more like Soviet auto designers at ZIS saw the Buick concept, thought it was cool, wanted to make it and their boss said something like “do it on your own damn time”. There’s a good book called ‘Cars

Your point being?

I really think you’re exaggerating how bad it is for effect.

Who’s “they”? Do you think there was any interest in funding concepts for personal cars, which the government at the time had no interest in?

It’s pretty obvious you don’t know anything about the history of Soviet automotive development, beyond some boomer stereotypes learned through osmosis.

Yah, you can see where the funds were being allocated. They didn’t give NAMI (the car design institute) shit to work with, so it was usually down to a few enthusiasts working at the beaureau to design and build such concepts. They got a lot better later on, if you’re interested, and aren’t just mocking some engineers.

Wow a country decimated by a world war and where personal cars were not a priority has worse concept cars, really shows how inferior they are!

Angry Face is pretty early 2010s. I’m always thinking the compact SUV bubble has to burst at some point, like superhero movies. It can’t just be forever, can it?

That’s been the case since, like, 2009.

If anyone can come up with a more clever prescription than my “what a fucking idiot”, there’s a picture of a Tatra ambulance sitting on my computer with your name on it.

Two for one:

My first car ever was a 1986 BMW 528e. I got it without ever seeing the owner. It was apparently owned by a high school kid, and he left the keys in the car for us to look through it and drive it (!). I offered him 400 dollars over the phone and he said to leave the cash in the mailbox (!!). The title was already

One thing I gotta warn people about if you’re thinking about an e38 is that there is a new problem cropping up more and more: rust. If you live in a rusty area, that generation of bmws that people fondly remember, e38, e39, e46, are more often showing up with godawful rust problems. Just something to keep in mind.

Why does this dunce keep insisting this is a KGB car? The KGB used volgas and other discreet cars, not a tatra that would have stood out like a sore thumb in the ussr, where they were never officially imported. The Tatra was a limo for Czech officials. The only ones in the ussr would have been in something like

Honestly, I’ve been through four generations of 5 series, and you could describe any of their interiors as below par for a luxury car. Except I think the e28 seemed quite solid, but that may be rose-tinted glasses, since it’s been a decade. BMW has good seats, if they’re not the basic version, and an ok interior.

I’m also retconning all the friends I’ve ever had as my lovers. Also my co-workers. That’s the only one of the seven platonic relationships I recognize.