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      10-31-2020, 09:17 AM   #48
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Efthreeoh Did you get the CT4-V? Is your 3er at 400k miles?
I picked up a '05 E46 Convertible with just 100,000 miles on it in September 2019. It was an unexpected buy that a work mate dropped on me when he bought an almost-new Miata. He gave it to me for $3,000, which is what CarMax offered him for it; and it was worth at least $6,500, so I couldn't pass it up. It's loaded too, with the winter package and sport package. I've dropped about $2K into it so far to get it up to snuff. Half of that was for a OE wind blocker LOL, but it extends top down driving by 15 deg. at least. Since Sept. 2019 the E46 has kept 10,000 miles each off the E90 and Z4, which is why the E90 is not yet at 400,000.

Anyway, long story, but I never had real plans to buy a CTV4. The E90 is at 397,300 and has fresh brakes in the rear. Along with the E46 and Z4, I'm pretty much set with cars (as long as they keep making gas and let old codgers like me drive among the self-driving EVs - LOL). The New Bronco will be my last new car purchase I'd bet. The sport sedan is pretty much dead for me once manufacturers start dropping the manual transmission from them. I have no interest in a ICE car with an automatic transmission.
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A manual transmission can be set to "comfort", "sport", and "track" modes simply by the technique and speed at which you shift it; it doesn't need "modes", modes are for manumatics that try to behave like a real 3-pedal manual transmission. If you can money-shift it, it's a manual transmission. "Yeah, but NO ONE puts an automatic trans shift knob on a manual transmission."
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