[V8] RE: replacing the V8 with a...a....a....a....

[Charles Wurts]

Apologies in advance, particularly since Keith just poked you while you 
were lying down, but I can't resist quoting you about this time last 
year:

".....So now, I am thinking fond thoughts about a 12 cylinder BMW 
coupe, repleat
with all the electronic gizzies that the elves in the Black Forest can 
think
up, while they are chewing on those funny roots or things that grow 
outside
the BMW Werks......"

PS - The gyrations of a car guy are particularly entertaining when 
others have visibility.  I suffer from the same problem, within the 
confines of quattros.  "Yes, I do have a problem, I am a quattro junky" 
  Bring on the Avant TDI quattros!!!!!



On Feb 1, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Roger M. Woodbury wrote:

>
> BMW?
>
> Uh, no thanks.
>
> The last BMW that I owned was a 1983 318i which I bought new.  I had 
> had
> a '79 320i that I had bought new and put a fast 120,000 on, and traded
> it on my first Audi.  A TERRIBLE Audi coupe (non quattro) that was
> disassembling itself after 16,000 miles.  I bit the bullet and bought
> another BMW and found it to be absolutely the worst car that I have 
> EVER
> owned.  It was a car that was rushed into production and rushed over
> here, and it would never, could never run properly on the kind of
> gasoline that is made here, especially in the winter. But not only 
> that,
> after two top end rebuilds in sixty thousand miles (at BMW expense), 
> the
> transmission synchros were going out AGAIN.  It was obvious to me at 
> the
> time that BMW was more a marketing company than the company that
> produced the 1600, 2002, and 320i models.  It was a VERY expensive
> little car for 1983, and BMW shrugged their shoulders, told me that 
> they
> had not done "well" with that car, but if I would wait for the six
> cylinder version, THAT would be a true BMW.
>
> The six cylinder version had the wonderful "E" engine.  I drove a 528E
> (I think it was) and knew right away that the car would simply kill me.
> The car had a wonderous fuel cutoff that would keep the engine from
> overreving...and cut off the fuel it did, too.  At the red line, BANG,
> the engine just stopped, and if you were in mid-shift, and popped the
> clutch, the engine would start right NOW, with a lurch...obviously an
> engine that should have been marketed with JUST an automatic.
>
> Nope.  No BMW's ever again.
>
> Besides they don't even look like German cars.  They look more like the
> results of a bad hair day in a Japanese design studio.
>
> And besides, without I won't have another car as a daily driver without
> Quattro or at least some sort of all wheel drive.  In this part of the
> world with studded tires on all wheels of a two wheel drive car you can
> "live" without Quattro, but what would be the point?
>
> Roger
>
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