RE: What was the favorite car you ever owned?
September 28, 2015 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2015 at 11:49 pm by Anomalocaris.)
2003 BMW Z-4 3.0.
I love that car for all its eccentricities. Very excellent engine, buttery smooth manual gear box, razed sharp and precise electric steering that is unfortunately devoid of feed back. Power soft top that requires me to get out of the car to giggle the stowed position switch to get it to retract. It has developed every annoying malfunction while under warranty, but has been perfectly reliable, except for the power soft top, since warranty expiration.
It's only fault I resent is the expensive but fragile OEM alloy wheels which develop flat spots and cracks at the least excuse. I never gained the resolve to replace all 4 at once to solve the problem.
It is a vastly better driving car then its predecessor the Z-3, and a truer roadster than the model of Z-4 that succeeded it.
I think my wife has it in for that car because I keep it in the garage while her car parks outside because all the stuff she keeps in the garage. Her reflexive solution to any finance related issue is for me to sell that car, which I have resisted thus far. I see no equivalent for it in the current market, the closest being the new Miata. The model of Z-4 that replaced it is lost most sense of what a roadster is.
I love that car for all its eccentricities. Very excellent engine, buttery smooth manual gear box, razed sharp and precise electric steering that is unfortunately devoid of feed back. Power soft top that requires me to get out of the car to giggle the stowed position switch to get it to retract. It has developed every annoying malfunction while under warranty, but has been perfectly reliable, except for the power soft top, since warranty expiration.
It's only fault I resent is the expensive but fragile OEM alloy wheels which develop flat spots and cracks at the least excuse. I never gained the resolve to replace all 4 at once to solve the problem.
It is a vastly better driving car then its predecessor the Z-3, and a truer roadster than the model of Z-4 that succeeded it.
I think my wife has it in for that car because I keep it in the garage while her car parks outside because all the stuff she keeps in the garage. Her reflexive solution to any finance related issue is for me to sell that car, which I have resisted thus far. I see no equivalent for it in the current market, the closest being the new Miata. The model of Z-4 that replaced it is lost most sense of what a roadster is.
