Too lazy to dig up my old thread, but I ended up getting a '07 Z4 3.0i last Saturday with 26k miles and a manual transmission. Not a whole lot of power compare to the cars I had in mind originally, but it was a great deal and offers plenty of fun driving. Picked it up in Dallas and drove it back with little problem... only to stall pulling up the driveway, Up next: M3! or a 911...
I'll be due for a new car in November. I'd love to get a 2007 or 2008 M3, but not sure if I'll be able to find one for around 35k.
They didn't make an 07, but I saw an 08 on ebay for 38k with something like 30k miles a few days ago. My favorite car of all time.
I'm having a semi-love affair with Hyundai right now. I love the Kia Optima (which is basically a grown-up, slightly sportier version of the Sonata) and wouldn't mind driving a turbo. But as far as my next car, the Genesis is pretty high on the list. I hate Honda's recent styling direction. All their vehicles are getting ugly as sin.
The best car I can find for $2500 or less. Yes that's twenty five hundred not twenty five thousand. I'm so over new cars as status symbols. I want something to get me from point a to b that I can work on and maintain myself. I'd like another old VW beetle or VW bus but at my price point it would be hard to find one in running condition.
Audi's are great looking cars but value and performance wise they suck compared to BMW. They are a bit more rare than BMW's which is a huge plus though.
Exactly. Until Audi started its massive advertising campaign as the alternative to BMW/Mercedes/Lexus in the mid-00s, it had been largely forgotten. The product placement of the Audi R8 in Iron Man, and how Audi's LED daytime running lights are being copied by so many other companies is proof they're back in the game. And yes, performance wise I'm disappointed hence my desire for an AMG.
No doubt, but for many people, buying expensive cars is a passion. Things like performance, handling, aesthetics, etc. I hate when other drivers of expensive cars give us a bad name by driving like idiots (switching lanes very fast, tail-gating) so people automatically assume the more expensive a vehicle, the more d-bag the driver.
Nice! You have interesting taste. My boss has a '98 911 Turbo as one of his garage queens. He's obsessed with the car...something about last generation (pre-1999) air-cooled engines vs. today's water-cooled ones. It's a gorgeous car even today and it does 0-60 in ~3.8 seconds
