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Old 11-06-2013, 12:57 AM
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Very nice post - confirming that

1) people who owned BMWs from 'back in the day' expect their more recent purchases to grow old gracefully, not fall to pieces within an agonizingly short time-frame - my 1990 E30 was the nuts, as was my E46 323i...

2) all the evil in the world is the result of shareholder greed!!
This threads confirms absolutely nothing and is ludicrous to even suggest that it does.

1) Comparing cars to SAVs is apples to oranges. Comparing cars of the 20th century to SAVs of the 21st century is worse.

2) Extreme self restraint to say--no comment.
Maybe I'm not reading this comment right, but having owned & worked on a couple of BMWs cars from the '80's, a couple more from the '90's, and now this e53 "SAV", I feel far more comfortable calling the e53 a "car" than a "truck" or even an "SAV". There is nothing remotely truckish about the e53; it has more shared genetics with the rest of the CARS in the BMW fleet than you can shake a stick at. I have to stifle a laugh any time anyone here refers to their e53 as a truck. If you want to call it a truck, that's fine, I just think it's a little silly. I've owned & driven trucks, and the e53 is much more refined and comfortable than the truck-based vehicles from GM/Ford/Dodge. When I think of a truck, this is what comes to mind.

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