BMW Z

Wife has driven a 1997 Z3 1.9 since 2000

Advantages: Great gas mileage fun fast sleek built to last
Disadvantages: Only people shorter than six foot tall can enjoy it. If you are taller it is not built for you.

In 2000 we bought the female neighbor's car for $13,500, the same as the dealer would give her for a trade in. It had 40,000 miles on it then, now it has 150,000. For five years the maintenance was oil changes and a brake job. For the next 4 it has cost me $1000-1500 a year, in the shop, for one thing or another. Catalytic converter one time, oxygen sensor, belts and hoses etc. another time, new clutch, electric window and door interior reinforcement ...
...Small stuff that could have destroyed the car if left unrepaired. Luckily we had the funds to repair them and the car looks almost new and runs like a top after 12 years. It is a woman or shorter man's car. I have to crawl in head first and can barely drive it with the top up, with the top down I can't see the light at intersections because the windshield is in the way. I can't see if my blinker is on either because the steering wheel blocks my vision. ...

Wisegeorge 02.05.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of BMW Z3 Roadster 

Mini Supercar

Advantages: Incredibly Rapid, Awesome drive, Can get the dog in the back
Disadvantages: Small tank so fill up constantly, its got 2 seats so the wife can come too!

I've had one for 3 years now and it's the best thing ive ever been in, I always get out of it with a big grin on my face! I did the cannonball8000 in it in 2006 and after 4 full days thrashing across europe you get out almost as fresh as when you got in, something our friends in the Nobel couldnt say, brilliant car! Don't know what the last guy was going on about, saying that the "makers claim it's a comfortable 4 seater", he's obviously never seen ...
...only a 2 seater! I got mine after spending ages looking at lots of cars to do the rally in and i kept coming back to the BMW. It truly is a mini supercar! it's incredibly fast, handles.....well, it's very good in the dry but the wet weather really brings it to life. It can be a handful at first, the early cars not having traction control and 321 BHP through those rear wheels is great fun once you've gotten used to driving it. It can suffer with VANOS ...

g4t0r 21.01.2009 · Read Full Review
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Review of BMW Z3 M-Coupé

It is beautiful car

Advantages: BMW, BMW, BMW
Disadvantages: :very expensive, poor passenger access with hood up

NOW here's an oddity. BMW has taken a shine to a design exercise put to it by some of its more forward-thinking engineers, and decided to manufacture a two-seater convertible, something it has not attempted since the Fifties. Its sales brochure claims that the aim of the exercise is ''to rekindle old dreams, to challenge man to reawaken his slumbering passions through vitality''. Rot, obviously, but I suppose you've got to fill a brochure with ...
...as BMW is aiming to make only 10 cars a week, and UK demand is already running very high. If you order one now, you might just get it next autumn. Is it worth waiting for? Well, it depends. The BMW Z1 is a good car if you want to be stared at. This is the perfect poser's motor: it is very pretty, it is beautifully made as you would expect of a BMW, and it has got doors that do not open. They simply disappear. You press a recessed button on the ...

igo_block 29.03.2006 · Read Full Review
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Review of BMW Z1

BMW Z8 Rocks

Advantages: An Exclusive Classy car
Disadvantages: Highly priced

...does one say about The BMW Z8 Convertible Sports model, is a car that is so so SENSATIONAL...COOL...SEXY...SPORTY....A CONCEPT CAR...AND ....Oh My Gawd ...SO PRICEY!!!!! If you own a car like this you belong to the EXCLISIVE CLUB i am told. Extremely easy to handle, very stable, a cool interior with a push- button starter located right next to the steering wheel, and the drive a thrilling experience....one can only rave about every aspect of this ...

Planter 29.07.2008 · Read Full Review
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Review of BMW Z8

tips on cars

Advantages: saving money
Disadvantages: n/a

some tips on buying cars: go to local auction buy off freind ebay local high street buying secound hand ones good as new just some one has had a ride in it before you some tips on selling a car: dont say how much you bought it for tell them higher than your selling it for internet trade it park in a place and have a sign saying your number and details of car you dont always need better cars than your mates because your just spending money ...

robins2k7 13.12.2007 · Read Full Review
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Review of BMW Z3 coupé