Michael.

^ Lol you sound fun. Fire up some more coal plants I say! China is!

Hahaha. Apparently turn the batteries into street lighting power sources powered by solar, some clowns say. It's just a money grab all this new tech and new sector of the industry. Someone else can work out the problems in the coming decades.

Good stuff Ray! Wish I had a reason to come buy some BMW parts, but they won't fit my Toyota!

Selling the M5 soon I bet.

All of what you just listed is more f**king nanny state bullshit. Sounds like you'd be quite happy for the Govt to tell you you can't drive your 545i or E30 on certain days restricting your freedom? Id be interested to what you would say to lower socio-economic families that can't afford fancy new cars with modern emission systems, should they get fined for just trying to get to work that could be months of wages? How do they get to work on car less days? Making life easier for everyone should be the goal, not going backwards with regulation.

Next gen they will follow this trend and the grill will extend up the bonnet to the wind screen. Will be quite the look!

wow thats cool, manual six turby diesel

Mmmm very nice. I'd love one of these to put a GM LS2 V8 in so it moves and is a fun looking grunty package. One day! Arguably one of the best styled BMWs of all time.

Gotta get rid of junk somehow. This type of procedure will just become more common place in years to come too. Vast majority of cars are just disposable tech now.

Good lord. Who are they marketing it to.. heroin addicts? I guess it makes sense as they will be so doped out they wont see how ugly the car is, and still being able to drive it now that they are just fast automatics requiring little driver skill anymore.

Looks like a hybrid of a Lexus and an Alfa. God I miss the BMW styling of old, but hey at least they are everywhere and cheap to buy. Perfection is only found for a brief time!

On what car? Don't recommend on a 4 cylinder, as they just sound annoying. Plausible on 6 or 8 cylinder though, you can get a good sound out of them. Dean doesn't really like working on newer BMWs, but depends what you want to do.

Bit expensive if it's not got the S54. Still picking up these non motorsport ones would be fun if the price is right. Throw a LS2 6.0 V8 in one! ❤️

Awesome.

You'd probably find the stock intake performs perfectly for your intended use. It's not always an accident how the parts end up after the BMW engineers developed them. It's an interesting topic to consider. Any time the intake is drawing in hot air from under the bonnet the sensor will read higher temps, so the ECU will change the timing and fueling to suit, resulting in less power. Terrible for off the line performance, or waiting for a run down a drag strip. I did some real world tests in my Soarer with 3 sensors, one on the front bumper for ambient, in front of the air filter, and one behind the airbox outside of it. Here is a table of my findings based on different time spend doing different things, at different speeds. As you can see any time the car comes to stop the hot air in the engine bay quickly accumulates I had a modified airbox that was drawing in hotter air than it should, so I returned it to stock. I did take new readings and they were much closer to ambient, although I didn't get around to making a table up for that. To be fair, I would suggest returning to stock as well.

That is just desperate looking. At least these new era BMWs just make the old classics look better and better as they age, E30 / 34 / 36 / 38 / 39 / 46 / 92 etc ❤️

Looks like they are pushing through. Pretty sure Melye is just chinese junk, again reinforces why OEM parts are so important.

Those E39 tail lights look so much higher quality than the other ones.

BMW is the German Toyota, about time they got some FWDs. They're 35 years behind the competitors!

They should just launch the E46 M3 Touring as a 2020 model, NA high revving six manual. The good old days.

3 Just a 3 cylinder, they have a great noise. Probably ducting the intake noise into the cabin, they do this on some models with a special intake noise generator.

I was going to buy a radar earlier in the year but with this new update decided enough was enough. At least it's something anyway, went for the Escort Redline EX, seems to be pretty nice, GPS locations of fix cameras is a nice touch, as is the long open road range. Probably one of the better value for money units out there.

Can always put a BMW badge on it!

General consensus is the the N62 is a pile of junk and best avoided, always leaky and full of plenty of issues they just shouldn't have. Unless you can get a mechanical warranty on the engine not worth bothering with. M62 certainly has a better track record, but complex, older now and need the timing chain guides done, vanos work and other fiddly stuff. While apart valley coolant block plate seal should be done along with other 20 year maintenace items. Switching to a non water cooled alternator is probably a good idea too. Personally I'd use an older M60B40 and refresh that, a well proven reliable vanos free motor, double chain timing and idler gear for the chain rather than cost cutting U shaped guide that wears out as used on the M62. Still a few things to do given they are 25-30 years old. Or just use an LS GM engine and sleep at night knowing it will run forever without a problem :p

I run a small business doing auto electrical work full time specifically for Toyota Soarers, but branching out to other Lexus-Toyota models. Get stuff sent to me for repairs from all over the world, it's pretty good. Did some BMW things originally, but not so much anymore.