m45consult wrote:I would never go back to BMW!!
This is not related to your question, but kinda funny BMW story none the less!
Our BMW dealer is pretty cool here, they tend to push the cars to the extreme and whip you around in them as if you were a rag doll; then they let you drive...
A guy I worked with, took a new BMW out for a drive and the sales guy was in the back seat telling him to go faster, the car could handle it. The driver was a little concerned, but started to get into the "BMW" way of driving and ending up doing one of the cloverleaf exists at 80+ km/h... since it snows here they put gravel down on the roads - and when the snow melts, the gravel - well lets just say when doing a very tight 270 degree turn at 80kph, the BMW stability controll was only helpfull enough to straighten the car out enough hit the lamp post at 80kph...
The car was a write off, 45k or so for the car. It hit the post, and then rolled a few times.
The passanges (3 of them) were okay, car was gone! The driver got a chemical burn on his legs from the airbags! (I guess this is a safe car in a serios roll over accident!)
BMW never ended up charging him for the car, but the police had some fun handing out violations that day!
tk