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I disagree. A G body 911 3.2 is awesome. For reasons completely intrinsic to the car. It makes a modern car like a Boxster feel sterile. Or chintzy in some ways. Too much plastic. Too much fluff. If I could find the right one, I’d do that experience all over again.
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02-26-2019, 04:18 PM | #112 |
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It would certainly cure his boredom if he wants to start wrenching and/or chasing shops to do some wrenching, if you're after perfection that is...
Reading JST's original post, he wants to tinker. I think porsches are harder to tinker with than bmw's. The older the bmw, the easier... Motorcycles are also good tinker candidates. |
02-26-2019, 04:36 PM | #113 |
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Really, I think that it’s clear that Josh needs something in the 2002/E30/E36 range.
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02-26-2019, 06:20 PM | #114 |
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My 2002 was without a doubt my favorite BMW. The item in the car with the most electronic control was the radio (clock didn't work)
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02-26-2019, 06:29 PM | #115 | |
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Not kidding about buying the red one, if you want to sell. EDIT: Re: G body 911. I'd love to own one some day, and I hear you about the visceral driving experience. It's hard to find a decent one for less than 30K nowadays, though, and that's a lot of cheddar. I also can't forget that 15 or so years ago when I was looking at 964s my overriding impression was that by modern standards they were kind of slow and needed to rev. Maybe a G body wouldn't make me feel that way, but when so much of my driving is stop and go city stuff I bet I'd miss the torque from the Variocam in the later motors. Re: G-wagen. I have no use for one of those, other than driving in the snow, which is probably a terrible idea because they like to rust. But I find them relentlessly cool for whatever reason, and it would be...plausible to have as a car in addition to the Boxster rather than instead of it. Last edited by JST; 02-26-2019 at 06:39 PM. |
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02-26-2019, 09:10 PM | #117 |
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02-26-2019, 11:38 PM | #119 |
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Why do you have two red ones, and which one are you refusing to sell to JST?
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And the second one is our “new” iX, because K’s old one is currently dying of being an iX (rust).
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