You rice boys crack me up (see www.riceboys.com for detail). This thing costs 3 thousand more than a 323i, has 45 more horsepower, 40 pounds more torque, looks like a dudded up Toyota (which it IS), and is still only 1/10th of a second faster 0-60? Where did all that HP and Torque go? I'll tell you, right down the crapper with that $3 grand!!
If you are solely interested in numbers, why don't you all just be accountants? What counts, truly, is how the car performs and not how high the HP is [and for that fact, this car doesn't].
Just go get a used 328i for $18k, put $12 thousand dollars in the bank and whip up on every IS300 you see. This is just a dressed up, moderately speedy semi-economy car that isn't economical. Don't even start on that reliability thing (cause that where all you boys run to when you can't compete elsewhere). I've owned 5 Bimmers and they are rock solid.
Just don't come to me crying when you get beat up by a CRX with a coffe can tail pipe or an old modded up 325i because I'm just going to say "I told you so.".
-Mike
If you are solely interested in numbers, why don't you all just be accountants? What counts, truly, is how the car performs and not how high the HP is [and for that fact, this car doesn't].
Just go get a used 328i for $18k, put $12 thousand dollars in the bank and whip up on every IS300 you see. This is just a dressed up, moderately speedy semi-economy car that isn't economical. Don't even start on that reliability thing (cause that where all you boys run to when you can't compete elsewhere). I've owned 5 Bimmers and they are rock solid.
Just don't come to me crying when you get beat up by a CRX with a coffe can tail pipe or an old modded up 325i because I'm just going to say "I told you so.".
-Mike