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I can mostly speak to the E32 cars.
What Paul and Jim say is correct. I personally had a Nikasil block in my car, and it was fine. However, it was always a source of worry for me wondering if it would ever start to fall apart. You don't hear about these engines dying much anymore, but that may be beacause there are not many left out there...
All BMW (ZF and others) automatic transmission suck. Many experts, including Mike Miller, say that a BMW automatic will generally fail between 80k and 120k miles. And that is failing in such a way as to require a full rebuild. I think that with proper maintenance most will go for mor than 120k miles, but the plain fact is most don't get serviced properly. Plus, BMW is now big on this "lifetime fill" bull hocky so on the newer cars, you can expect that the transmission fluid has NEVER been changed. The E32 740 was the first to use this new wonderful concept.
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