OT: Should I buy old BMW 528i?

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=temeculaguy]As an owner of an out of warranty 5 series, my advice is stay the hell away. Mine is 10 years newer and is not my daily driver, plus I do most my own maintenance and my advice is the same. It’s similar to an aging 50 year old divorced and unemployed former trophy wife, high cost to maintain and unrealistic expectations of maintenance to value ratio.

At that price point, go American or Asian purely for the maintenance costs. If you dislike Lexus, look at Infiniti, costs less and performs better. In a totally different price range, the future Mrs. TG just got a 1 year old Cadillac ATS and I’m envious. While it’s 3 series in size and too small for my over sized body, I’m totally impressed and 5 years from now when I’m undoubtedly fixing something, I love the ease and cost of repairs. Now I’m not a fan of caddies pre-2012, their latest stuff feels underrated. A few years from now, when I finally get angry enough to part with the beemer, I’ll look at at a 1 to 2 year old caddy, but maybe that’s just because I’m getting old.[/quote]

Old guy in a Cadillac just seems so cliche it’s verging on hipster. Have u heard of normcore. Hipster young kids are dressing like suburban dad’s and wearing mom jeans ironically. Your Cadillac could be normcore, if you choose. Or it could just be an old guys car

[Coronita]

I guess that doesn’t really matter anymore since most of everything is made in china now. Even Sony things. And volvos

[Coronita]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=temeculaguy]As an owner of an out of warranty 5 series, my advice is stay the hell away. Mine is 10 years newer and is not my daily driver, plus I do most my own maintenance and my advice is the same. It’s similar to an aging 50 year old divorced and unemployed former trophy wife, high cost to maintain and unrealistic expectations of maintenance to value ratio.

At that price point, go American or Asian purely for the maintenance costs. If you dislike Lexus, look at Infiniti, costs less and performs better. In a totally different price range, the future Mrs. TG just got a 1 year old Cadillac ATS and I’m envious. While it’s 3 series in size and too small for my over sized body, I’m totally impressed and 5 years from now when I’m undoubtedly fixing something, I love the ease and cost of repairs. Now I’m not a fan of caddies pre-2012, their latest stuff feels underrated. A few years from now, when I finally get angry enough to part with the beemer, I’ll look at at a 1 to 2 year old caddy, but maybe that’s just because I’m getting old.[/quote]

Old guy in a Cadillac just seems so cliche it’s verging on hipster. Have u heard of normcore. Hipster young kids are dressing like suburban dad’s and wearing mom jeans ironically. Your Cadillac could be normcore, if you choose. Or it could just be an old guys car[/quote]

I’d like to be the old guy with the porsche. One day. Now that’s a cliche I can live with

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic]My 2012 Honda had the good manners to have my battery die in my driveway on a weekend so I could go get a new one easily.

I picture a BMW being more rude. Actually I think German cars actively want to get jews. .[/quote]

Well, with that logic, Asians shouldn’t be buying Japanese cars. At least the Germans apologized for their war crimes. Old Japan is still trying to deny and rewrite history as if the Nanjing massacre never happened.[/quote]

Correct. Japanese cars like jews, however.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=flu][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=temeculaguy]As an owner of an out of warranty 5 series, my advice is stay the hell away. Mine is 10 years newer and is not my daily driver, plus I do most my own maintenance and my advice is the same. It’s similar to an aging 50 year old divorced and unemployed former trophy wife, high cost to maintain and unrealistic expectations of maintenance to value ratio.

At that price point, go American or Asian purely for the maintenance costs. If you dislike Lexus, look at Infiniti, costs less and performs better. In a totally different price range, the future Mrs. TG just got a 1 year old Cadillac ATS and I’m envious. While it’s 3 series in size and too small for my over sized body, I’m totally impressed and 5 years from now when I’m undoubtedly fixing something, I love the ease and cost of repairs. Now I’m not a fan of caddies pre-2012, their latest stuff feels underrated. A few years from now, when I finally get angry enough to part with the beemer, I’ll look at at a 1 to 2 year old caddy, but maybe that’s just because I’m getting old.[/quote]

Old guy in a Cadillac just seems so cliche it’s verging on hipster. Have u heard of normcore. Hipster young kids are dressing like suburban dad’s and wearing mom jeans ironically. Your Cadillac could be normcore, if you choose. Or it could just be an old guys car[/quote]

I’d like to be the old guy with the porsche. One day. Now that’s a cliche I can live with[/quot
e]

Porsche w old guy sounds not normcore. Cliched maybe but not normcore, therefore not hipster. Need to check with my fashion xconsultant.

[spdrun]

One of the founders of Mercedes (Jellinek) was actually Jewish. An old Jewish guy driving a 90s Mercedes is sort of a cliche around here.

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=spdrun]One of the founders of Mercedes (Jellinek) was actually Jewish. An old Jewish guy driving a 90s Mercedes is sort of a cliche around here.[/quote]

Yeah. This is just me. I don’t trust germany.

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