Here is the Texas version, spotted today outside Houston. I had to take the pic in a hurry because I had a feeling that someone was watching me from inside. Late ‘70's- early 80's Camaro on what I would assume is a Chevy 4x4 chassis, unless they used Ford underpinnings and thereby offended the Gods, dooming them to…

Patina preservation is a symptom of the Cult Of The Hipster, fetishising “authenticity” until you are roaming maker fairs looking for small-batch oak-aged beard oil and handmade tube amps.

I was possessed with some type of BMW Douche-Demon when I first got my M3 and affixed a sticker of an Imperial TIE fighter with an M badge on its wing to my bumper.

As the owner of a slicktop ‘10 E90 in Space Gray I must concur. I went with the flappy paddles and never looked back, though. I’d get sick of rowing through those gears in Austin traffic every day.

What he said. My 2010 E90 makes me smile every damn day. Put a Hammann diffuser on the front, 12mm wheel spacers and get on down the road. Or you could go nuts for bro nuts like I did and get an Alcantara steering wheel from Tanik and be cock of the rock. The sticker on mine was about 70K and I paid about 26. Still…

Dajiban! Man the Japanese know how to make anything cool. I really wanted to get one of these and Dajiban-ify it for awhile. The wife put a firm veto on that. So I bought an M3! Fuck it.

It looks like a 1st. gen. AMC matador. So basically yes, it’s a C2 Corvette after a few bad years of turning tricks and weeklong meth binges.

Bad catch is more like it.

IIRC this is the same dealer who recently ordered a brace of candy-colored M3's, all optioned to the hilt. Pistachio, Electric Blue, Purple Drank, and Fucking Orange, I think are the official names.

I used to go to Longhorn Speedway as a kid to watch my neighbor Steve race. Nothing like watching Camaros and Monte Carlos battle it out on a tiny track. That was serious business. Huge wrecks, car fires, fistfight s in the paddock. It was beautiful.

I just got my 2010 E90 yesterday. Space Grey/black interior. I have wanted one ever since my crazy coke-dealing neighbor showed an 11-year old me his brand new black M3 back in ‘86.

And for that price apparently your water tank has the flip up lid from a ‘97 Accord washer fluid reservoir.

You oily little worker bees, sebum-slathered and milling dully about in the sun waiting for your next task.

It’s not a turd painted on the side.

Not really something you want to hear in a crowd: "Hi, prolapse!"

I like these features. I plan to do the right thing and give a home to an obscene German sedan soon. Once you romp the pedal on the right on that big MB V8 things are never quite the same.

Trying to to stifle innovation and the infusion of cash into any competitive human endeavor will always be very difficult.

I did it like this, I did it like that.

Insert obligatory pic of me doing my best Hamilton impersonation..

Those orange bumps are the apex markers. They stick about 5" up from the ground. Judging by the trail of cones and oil-dry down the straight from turn 10 to 11, it looks like someone hit one with their oil pan and lost a lot of important fluids for quite a distance.