Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Road tested '98 328iS 5 speed today

[LtWacko (LtWacko]

I completely agree the more modern BMW 3 series has gotten fat.  If I  want a 
car as big as the old 5 series, I would have purchased a 5 series.   I 
thought the old E30 chassis was the perfect size.  They are becoming VERY  
expensive 
nowadays.  Clean ones cost more than E36's.  It is very  common in the 
Chicago area to find an E30 S50/2 hybrid swap.  I know of at  least 30 in the 
local 
chapter BMW chapter.  Unfortunately, they are  approaching astronomical 
maintenance costs due to age and availability of  parts.
 
Rodney
 
In a message dated 11/23/2006 2:18:07 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
kjtar [at] cox.net writes:

Afterthought...Oh, and Rodney, I'm not just going by published  numbers.  I
don't know what the published numbers are for the '98  328iS, for example,
but I know that it "felt" fast enough, but also too big  and (in my view)
unnecessarily heavy/cumbersome.  If I were making  $70k or so per year I
could probably "afford" to get a Ferrari again and  not have to worry about
maintenance expenses, etc. (although there's ALWAYS  some kind of "budget" to
consider) but that's my problem...suffice it to  say that I go a lot by seat
of the pants feel, I'm just trying to use  numbers to get qualfiying cars for
the "short  list".
Regards,
Tom
Tulsa, OK
P.S.  If I had one car to  choose from, it would probably either be a '93 or
'94 RS America or a  365GTC/4.  Or a 365GTC.
:)