Highway is actually surprisingly good on the M3 I get high 20s MPG and it is pretty quiet, barely louder than my 335i if at all. The issue is potholes uneven pavement etc.Johnny_P wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:23 pmYas avo toastmax225 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 01, 2018 1:17 pm
Dude do you have avocado toast in your profile now ?
Also you don't drive all that much... I would love to put 5k miles a year on the m3... at a 20-25k a year pace things get a bit different. It is still a great daily considering the performance... but there are downsides.
21mpg
$1500 a set of tires that last 15-20k miles so.... ~$1500 a year in tires... ~120 a month
rough ride over craters
rough tranny
a bit of brake dust and tough to clean transmission
still wouldn't want a CRV or CX5 that's embarrassing, but a civic sport with a manual would be a bit of fun... or... a TDI golf that I probably shouldn't have traded
Super hardcore cars get old on the highway for sure. If I had Fled's 30 mile commute for example I wouldn't have bought this. But I don't put many miles on my car anymore, and the miles I do put on it are lugging along at 20-30 MPH through stop sign land. Not ideal for a performance car. Even trying to find back roads is getting tough as the Philly area has really built up over the last few years, gotta go pretty damn far to get to anything remotely fun, which doesn't happen much.
GF drove us home last night and was RAILING potholes and sinkholes totally NFG. Tiguan swallowed it all with an occasional THUD but mostly drama free, it is impressive how NFG you can be driving something like that. I think that would be ideal for me next.
Agree that the Golf TDI is a pretty logical car and a great daily. I should have bought a DSG diesel golf instead of my GTI.
I realized my car pulls wheelies when I pull into strip malls... BMW went on this thing when it comes to :stiffening: the chassis. This hasn't happened to me since my old days where I ran giant sway bars in vehicles.