I just realized that's lot of type error, may be I was still not fully awake this morning.:wink:
My 7yrs old 325? I always pay attention to the maintenance of the car. Can't be better, loving it everyday! Just changed to a set of M sport spring and the cornering is sweet. Slight bumpy but manageable and I am willing to trade that much of comfort for that. Driving, is fun!:rock:
When I used to own other makes, I always feel the car test driven is better when I drive back my own car and have the urge to change. With this car now, it really push up the bar. There's always better car outside, but not enough to make me to jump the gun yet. Have test drove all german makes at the same range, but I am not convinced yet.
Yes, my 7yrs old car is not as powerful as those turbo new comer, not as comfortable as the 125yrs old brand, but I am ok with my car. The steering feel, the chassis feedback, the instant and precise pedal feel, the 50:50 + RWD fun, the I6 smoothness, the engine grunt at low rpm and roar at high rpm, the total package this car is offering fit my preference perfectly. It just stir my emotion everytime I fire it up. After all the test drives and drive back my own car, I recognize other cars are better is someway, but no one is offering all these together in a package, so I have no probem with my 325 now. It's either E90 335 or F30 328, I guess.
I'm no engineer, but if we know the engineering work done for the car, you will love them more and lots of the complains that you usually hear will be answered. "BM always break down lah, bla bla bla..." Germans are famous with high precision and fine machinery. Go ask some of the printing companies who makes the best and durable offset sheet fed printing machine, they will tell you it's Heidelberg.
Germans are equally serious about manufacturing good stuff and they have a long history and foundation in this, so you can be sure of it. It's just too many components, sensors, bushes are there, so you always feel like you have to replace something, giving you crap feeling. However, if you understand the background, you know it's natural and you have to know it before you own one.
Like one of our forumer said, the driving pleasure the car give me is priceless!
Think carefully, research enough, jump you gun and enjoy it.
