Get another E46 while they’re still cheap. In a few years they’re going to be classics and start spiking in price

BMW community member will say BMW guys are nicer

Porsche community member will say Porsche guys are nicer

The kidney grille on the G30 looks a little too large IMO. The E39 is the peak of BMW styling IMO. After that everything BMW put out starts to look overstyled in someway

Well the car’s lived a life. My sister’s E46 got totalled by a geriatric in a Tesla when it hit around 205k miles

You’re not going to get good MPG going 86 MPH. Having a diesel doesn’t matter - aerodynamic drag goes up exponentially with speed so you’ll use exponentially more gas to push the car through air going at faster speeds. Try driving at 60-70 MPH if you want low gas consumption

She probably drove it 20 minutes or so in first gear at about 30 mph. Periodically redlining the poor thing. She burned through about 2 gallons of gas.

That is some horrible gas mileage

OP just wants to drive the car without doing anything other than oil changes. Once you get to 50k things other than engine oil needs to be changed

Sounds about right.

Side (off-topic) comment: Interestingly everything after the E21 is white or silver

LSB is the quintessential “I wanna be stand out!” E46 M3 color. It’s not different different like Oxford Green, but it’s not as pedestrian as Titanium Silver

Honestly people need to grow up and give it a rest with the model snobbery. Even a base model BMW today has overkill horsepower for street use. People got along fine with BMWs that made less than 200 hp for decades

BMW alternates from ugly styling to good styling, then back to ugly styling, then back to good styling, then again to ugl… well you catch my drift (pun intended).

Source: I have been watching this garbage for the past 10 years so I’m used to it

BMW makes a lot of interesting product decisions that makes us wonder what is BMW thinking? 🤔