Ava

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I thought it was the monster dude from Aliens, the one that popped out of the guy's chest.The photo has a lot of fine detail...kind of hard to figure out what it is. It might be easier to use a picture of the whole car, or just a spark plug or something.

Here let me whip out the spark plug picture.

Well, on the "My Shit" M5 page, the wheel picture has some potential, although you might want to take a wider shot.

Here's a wider shot of the engine. Maybe I'll go front end or rear end.

Why are you posting a pic of a tail light?

joe loves his little car!

The new 500 HP, 10 cylinder, $82,000 M5 would make an intersting icon....but it'd be hard to capture the engine in 81,000 pixels. Jeeez, that's more than a dollar per pixel.

lol!! If I could lower the resolution, I'd buy one this afternoon

I have thought about the new M5. the problem is that I for one don't like the exterior or the interior. And my car used to be my Dad's and h egave it to me so it was free. And gettting my hands on a 06 M5 for sticker price would be impossible. Plus, I would much rather have a M6 and that will be over $95k.

The current 5 series is as reliable as an old Ford. I know someone in Germany whose boss has an M5, and it's always in the shop. The Consumer Reports results are not encouraging. In fact BMW has been having a lot of quality issues lately (although not nearly the issues that Merecedes is having). And man, they burn a lot of gas, at least around town.I'm looking into buying a scooter. I had a particular Peugeot model in mind, but now Peugeot is pulling out of the U.S. (the currency exchange rate is killing them). Kind of makes servicing and parts a big hassle, at least in a few years.When I get a scooter, I will grab the digital cam and make it (the scooter) my avatar.

I have yet to have any prolems. It's only 2 years old and it has 30k miles on it so you never know. My olny prbolem with it is that I got though tires and brakes every 7k miles.

Damn, that must be expensive. I am glad that your car is reliable, but statistically, there have been a lot of problems. Anyway, if you got the car for free, that kind of thing is pretty irrelevant.Relevant-to-thread part: A lot of BMW wheels would make nice avatars.

Yeah, it's expensive! Like $2,000 for tires, rotors, and pads. I would definetly get more use out of them I didn't drive so hard. I'll post a wheel shot.

Sorry, I just have a thing for wheels. In my neighborhood, wheel pimping is the first thing you do to a car when you're customizing. Now I'm not seeing as many chrome wheels with the spinning inner part. But a lot of BMW wheels look pretty cool right from the factory.

Wheels are pretty pointless unless they add a performance aspect to them. With the wheels most people buy, they get the opposite effect. I also found it really stupid that I could not find chains.

Around here the max. legal speed limit on any road is 35 MPH. The fastest you can practically go is about 45 MPH or so. And there are often a lot of cops hanging out on that road. So around here, that stuff is like peacock feathers. It's meant to look pretty, not for racing purposes.It's funny to see the Lamborghinis, Porsche 911s, Ferraris, Bentleys, etc. There's nowhere to drive fast anywhere around here. But people like to buy pretty things.

isnt that a raceway or dragway somewhere around there?thats the excuse i used to buy my car

That's the beauty of California. You can drive over 100mph practically anywhere. And there are a lot of canyons to crave.

Good question. There's one in Homestead (the town that was completely wiped out in Hurricane Andrew), but that's pretty far away. There used to be some track in Miami ("Sunday, Sunday, SUNDAY!" radio ads), but I guess real estate became too valuable for that kind of thing.If anyone knows of a track near Miami, let me know...I may just be clueless.BMW, however, makes cars with 500 HP engines, low profile tires, stability control, etc., but if you take one of their cars onto a track, you invalidate the warranty. They have their heads up their tailpipes.

No salt flats in South Florida. But lots of swamp.