I appreciate your straight forward approach but I disagree with your assessment of BMWs! After 60 years of living, I gave away 90% of what I owned and sold much of the rest to live in paradise awhile. When I return to the states from living in Costa Rica on a two year adventure (coming to terms with my own cancer scare and recovering from burnout of being a trial lawyer on the front line of other people's wars), I will get another BMW as a priority, not because it is a status symbol or whatever you think about beemers. It will now be harder to justify the expense maybe but worth it to me as my only toy beyond the cat and planting flowers.

I feel so good driving a BMW. I hope to get a used electric i4. BMWs brake on a dime so yeah for safety (and at least one darting kid on a bike is alive today due to BMW brakes I applied quickly) but just as worthwhile is the excitement of 300 or more foot pounds of torque. When I was young and helped my dad fix our crappy old cars, he turned me into what he called a "piston freak" later known as a gearhead, but I never knew how great it could be to drive any vehicle until I owned a BMW.

They do not get old after a few weeks unless you are too chicken shit to really drive them as intended. Thanks for all your writing but maybe lighten up on BMWs. They are more than a luxury car and they beat the hell out of video games or whatever people do to entertain themselves these days.