Re: Greg, I dont see how it is good news, for us . (archive)

If we all do our own part and keep our cars in good running order and pristine, this goes a looong way to make them more desirable, especially if they're actually starting to become a bit harder to find.

In the end only the cars that are well cared for will last and be around, anyway. Hopefully these cars will become classics.

As a current owner of an E31 I feel sad that our cars are becoming cheap and devauled in part becuase of ignorant journalism. I want my car to maintain its value to some extent and still be a prize for others to aquire. When the car becomes cheap, people who cant afford to maintain the car or dont care to maintain it end up owning it. This only perpetuates the myth that this car is problematic and unreliable and results in more devauluation. Its like a downward spiral.

Brad H.

The bad news is that the car will likely never shake the poor reputation given it by BMW dealers and the motoring press, regardless of the reality that hundreds of us here have come to know.

The good news is that while misleading, this contradiction makes a beautiful, rare,reliable, solidly built, high performance coupe relatively inexpensive.

Greg K

Edmunds gives an equally off base review of the 8

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