A couple of points here.

For years, the Ford F-150 has been touted as America's best selling pickup truck, but in reality, Chevy Silverado and GM Sierra which share the same platform and as a combined entity, has been outselling the F-150 for as far back as I could pull total sales reports.

Those of you who say they would never own an out of warranty BMW is doing the brand a disservice. There are plenty of high mileage BMW's on the road, well beyond warranty expiration, but also not costing owners an arm and a leg to own and operate. Sure, there are BMW's, recently introduced over the past decade, that had some notorious issues, especially first year models ('02 745i, '04 645i, etc.), or models with first year features (i.e. adaptive handling, SMGIII), but there are a ton of BMW's on the road that will probably go up to 200K miles without any catastrophic issues.

In my opinion, most BMW's are still excellent vehicles beyond their warranty period, in particular, those vehicles who have received the strictest of care and maintenance by their owners.

There are plenty of 100K mile and beyond X5's on this board. There are also plenty of E39 M5's and E46 M3's on the road, also beyond the 100K range, and it's because they were well maintained.

But I suppose if there were enough people complaining about BMW's high cost of repairs, unreliability, and various other sundry problems, perhaps it will drop the resale value of a well-maintained '04-'06 M3 ZCP coupe down to where I can just pay cash for it.

So go ahead and keep belly-aching.