Nonsense Thread

[varg]

That is crazy. My FD brings me to 9 and I don't think we're too far apart in age.

I want to buy some fun motors and stash em… current ones I really want are a VR6 (12v) and a SHO Yamaha V6… then I just need a 914 🤣

You want the SHO engine and it's not the V8? If I'm hoarding some fun engines are no 6 cylinders on my mind and if there were they wouldn't be in a V. Mercedes M120 and M156, Mazda 20B, LS7...

[2mAn]

You know whats crazy? How many cars you've owned

I made a list recently... Its only in the 30s

[MrBurgundy]

Just looked back to see when it was that I bought my first E30, 2011... I think I will bump the thread after I fix the photobucket-linked pics...

You know whats crazy? How many cars you've owned

[2mAn]

facebook informed me that 10 years ago yesterday, my M20 spontaneously disassembled on the way home from work.

Hard to believe it's been 10 years since then, or something like 14 years since I bought my e30

Just looked back to see when it was that I bought my first E30, 2011... I think I will bump the thread after I fix the photobucket-linked pics...

[Northern]

facebook informed me that 10 years ago yesterday, my M20 spontaneously disassembled on the way home from work.

Hard to believe it's been 10 years since then, or something like 14 years since I bought my e30

[2mAn]

I want to buy some fun motors and stash em… current ones I really want are a VR6 (12v) and a SHO Yamaha V6… then I just need a 914 🤣

[roguetoaster]

Did you guys know that Hemmings has auctions too?

Didn't know, but auctions are the fun way to buy right now, or so it seems.

This year so far I've bought an 01 330i, an 03 Ranger, a 99 SVT Contour, a 16 Colorado, a 10 Ranger, an 01 325ci, and just today an 89 Grumman side console. All of those were from the local mostly charity auction. Total spend just over 11k including transport to my driveway, and not including the 2.5k or so in parts purchased to fix problems the vehicles.

[2mAn]

Did you guys know that Hemmings has auctions too?

[Northern]

The polestars are ok looking for electric cars, compared with telsa motors cars which are pathologically bland, as if designed by committee and focus group to be inoffensive.

I just think Volvo did such a good job with the whole SPA lineup, especially the V60/V90, Wish that stuck around a little longer, and had a real ICE "Polestar" version or something. The PHEV "Polestar Engineered" stuff is cool/tempting, but the ICE front / Electric Rear powertrain seems like a control systems nightmare, and I don't think the performance figures fit the quoted 455hp/500ftlb. I also want nothing to do with a hybrid system out of warranty.

That said, I guess the Polestar 1 was very SPA-like, but I guess they've just evolved from there.

Would still love to someday pick up a well optioned non-hybrid V60 or V90 and fire a JB4 and a few mods on it, because I like my XC90 a lot for hauling family and highway use - I just wish it was a wagon.

[moatilliatta]

Alpha - E30
Omega - F87

[varg]

BMW seems to have sent the blind design head off to destroy Rolls Royce now.

Good riddance, but some of the people coming in sound like scrubs also... the guy who butchered the Volvo SPA design language to make the polestar electric cars, someone who designed the recent Mini abominations, and two others that sound alright.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmws-d...his-fix-things

Massive, gaudy, high walled, slab sided cars fits rolls royce better than BMW. The new 7 series is rolls royce like in its appearance from the sides. I have seen every new BMW model multiple times, even a regular 740i is a slab sided monstrosity. The 2 series sedans look like an edgier 2010s dodge dart. The M2 is somehow both bland looking and ugly. BMW isn't alone though, the new MBs are ugly too, although it's mostly the distended looking front ends with the exaggerated grilles that do them in, they look ok from the side. Distended is a good way to describe the front and read ends of these new BMWs and MBs. They look as if you were to draw a somewhat normal car on a flat front and inflate it, the edges pull taut and don't distort as much, but the center swells, distorting the proportions. The rears look this way too, the tail lights look small and high up, leaving a huge expanse of trunk lid and bumper below and between them.

What does look surprisingly good in person is the new Bentley Continental GT. The polestars are ok looking for electric cars, compared with telsa motors cars which are pathologically bland, as if designed by committee and focus group to be inoffensive.

[rturbo 930]

Interesting... That thread with an upset customer disappeared

He requested it to be deleted.

[MrBurgundy]

Interesting... That thread with an upset customer disappeared

[roguetoaster]

Seems like tastes have shifted in favor of the E30.

Glad I only have an anonymous E46 these days, which isn't a bad thing if you want to go fast.

[rturbo 930]

If you mean attention from people on the street, then yes, same here in the Philly area. I have been getting more thumbs up from people, but especially more people in modern BMW's rolling down the window at stop lights to make a comment about my ride. It's been fun!

All sorts of people. In the last three months or so, I've had some kid on a bike while at a gas station take a photo of it, some mom in an SUV told me she loved it, a guy in a 335i (or something) complimented it, and most recently while in traffic two little kids in their front yard started pointing at it excitedly, which I assume meant they liked it. So really the whole spectrum of people. I've never gotten this much attention in it. Seems like tastes have shifted in favor of the E30.