SHO = Single Hamster Overdrive

I occasionally get the hairy eyeball for using my E46 M3 as my DD, and I put about 20k/year on it commuting to Nashville. Yeah, maintenance isn’t cheap, but I do it all correctly myself, and the bottom line is, I bought the car to drive, not to look at, and nothing I’ve ever owned puts a smile on my face as often as…

It’s Spring Break 1993. A buddy of mine and our girlfriends jump into his 1969 VW Westphalia camper and head from Nashville to the Florida panhandle to do some spring/cavern SCUBA diving in the area. On one planned dive day, we drove a couple hours out into the sticks to a dive spot we had been to a time or two…

Friend of mine has been running around Florida with one for awhile. M62TU with a fully functional OBDII setup. It is truly a delicious experience.

Best quote I’ve seen is by a user on M3forum. “Not driving your M3 to keep the mileage low is like not %@!*ing your girlfriend to make her more attractive to her next boyfriend.”

The ARO nearly made it to US dealers as the Crosslander 4x4 around 2002 or so. Issues with federalizing it and available cash being what it was, it never happened, but Egads did I want one with the proposed 2.8L IH turbodiesel.