Please, they’re super reliable cars! I haven’t needed to fill the blinker fluid on mine even once since getting it

My 98 bmw with 210k miles when I sold it was the most dead reliable car I've ever owned! Bmw i6 engines are legendary, as long as you get the ones that still have a steel cable from the throttle peddle to the throttle valve. Once u got a potentiometer with 6 wires that go to the ECU which then suggests what the electronic throttle body does, is where the reliability sort of ended LOL.

It's an e46, it doesn't cost shit to keep running provided you don't take it to a shop to get work done on it. Unless of course you get an M3, in which case the exact amount to keep it running is "way too much".

I know it's not that crazy but these moments always amaze me:

Never in my life had I heard BMW's being called bimmers/beemers,
And this is the second time I see it today.

You'd be homebound or relying on ubers if you lived where I am.

Owning a car is such a con. Between car payments, the price of fuel, insurance, upkeep, parking charges, I'm glad I live in a city with good public transit. I feel bad for people who have to rely on a car.

In France, every BMW driver is a massive asshole that cannot drive properly. I should make statistics about this.

Bavarian Money Wasters

Long live the long roof!

Yeah, I drive a Mazda.

Depreciation is the biggest loss for newish cars, but maintaince, fuel, tires, insurance costs come up quickly, often averaging 5-7K/year.

In much of America, not having a car means not being able to get to work or buy food.

If you can't afford a car, you might be able to afford operating costs for a used japanese motorcycle.

Eh? My Honda Civic just had to have its struts replaced, and that was a $1000 expense which was difficult to cope with and would have been impossible were I not working three different jobs. If I wanted working AC, which I have never had in the vehicle, I’d need to spend like ~2k every year because the model has a defective condenser (and in Trump’s America, warranties are suggestions)

At some point you have to recognize that many Americans cannot afford any vehicle. Unfortunately the U.S. is not designed for people who don’t have vehicles.

While my car was in the shop yesterday, I looked at my options for getting to work, which is about seven miles from my house. There was a bus route, which would have taken at least a full hour compared to my usual 15 minute drive, and there was Uber/lyft, which would have cost me about a third of the money I’d make at work.

If god forbid, something happened to my car, I’d have to take a loan out for something I could not afford, because I have to be able to get to work to survive and pay for the damn car!

Like the guy in the 100k BMW is gonna stop to think about depreciating assets... C'MON!

ZIS IS TOURING

And this is why you want to promote bicycles. Most car trips are under 3 miles which is easily doable on a bicycle, even easier on an electric bicycle.

Maintenance costs? Like double digit costs per year per bike, if that. I bought a new bike and had zero maintenance costs for 2 years now