[Josh (PA)]

I was thinking about this thread this morning when I was driving into work. I think in today's day and age it is pretty easy to hit your parameters with any number of cars. Just thinking through three of the four I own now:

My 2003 E46 325xit is ~17 yrs old. I bought it 6 yrs ago for about $5500, it is worth probably 2500 now. It has cost us probably $4k in maintenance/upkeep (including snow tires) since we've owned it and it shows no signs of crapping out anytime soon. Insurance is cheap, and at its value, you only need comprehensive.

My 2011 E88 135i is turning turned 10 in November of 2019. I've personally owned it for 5+ years, during that time I needed an OFHG, 2 water pumps and a battery. Other than that is has been reliable through 108k miles. If it was $50k new and worth $15k now It would be pushing your ownership cost, but not by a ton and for my needs has been a great daily driver.

We bought our 2013 X5 four years ago for $23500. We've put 90k miles on it ourself since then (so much higher than average use case) and have only had a VCG to replace. Cost of ownership of that has been very low and projects to remain that way through its' 10 yr lifecycle.