Meaning 6 cylinders it is then...
poor buggers like me will have to go with whatever my money can afford. And I cannot afford the FC for a 2.5L 6-cylinder BMW la. It drinks 12.5L/100KM la (that's about 8km/L) and that's not including the 800+ roadtax.
Roadtax = MYR 859
6 cylinder smoothness and revving sound = priceless
BMW = Break My Wallet. So you need to brace yourself.
The smoothness is next level. Having said that though the 1JZ sounds a hella lot better.
Huh go back to BMW again?
not necessarily. But I'm considering the possibility. I go where my money takes me, or in my case - where doors open for me with the little money I have.
This time its a BMW in true sense.
Last time its sort-of-BMW.
If he get anything having less than 6 piston under the hood then he will regret thus that BMW will become the sort-of-BMW which he owned last time.
I only manage to experience the 6 piston feel in an E60 525 for a very2 short lunch trip few times this year and the feel is 'lain lah'. It can be lazy and it can pounce. When it pounce, it doesnt make a fuss about it. Its like a lazy but deadly pounce.
My experience with BMWs is you never feel the power delivery unless it's a M3/M5. The M3 v8 manual I sat it was balls to the wall power delivery and the only other BMW close was the e60 Hartge 3.0 diesel I got to try. Other BMWs are so smooth in their delivery by the time you realize how fast you're going you've already broken 4 different road traffic rules. Even the 4-cylinder e90 - but to be fair all the e90s I got to drive were all remapped so low end torque and top end were very nice. The e36 manual 2.5L I wanted to buy sometime ago was no where near as powerful but manual was clunky and solid. Gawd that was a good feel car, pity my family that came with me didn't like it.
Are the beemers easy to maintain? I know of 4 friends who own beemers before, thereafter never touch them again. Even my mechanic's brother from beemer to Camry......lol
It really depends on how you look at it. Easy - not really because they are quite fussy cars meaning if it says 10k OCI, you better do it at 8k. And aftermarket OEM parts not necessarily good to use and better to stick with ori. But having said that if you know where to look the parts aren't overly expensive and are comparable with Toyotas of the same segment (except for some things like airbags.. BMW costs more). Your friends probably bought their bimmers new and were forced to go back to Autobavaria for service and got screwed over. Or they bought lemon used units (there are tonnes) which bled their wallets dry.
The thing about the Camry compared to a BMW 3-series or 5-series, the Camry is way more forgiving compared to the BMWs. You could forget to service the Camry and run to 20k without breaking anything. Do that with a BMW and prepare to replace your valves seals. A leaking Camry valve cover gasket will last 80-100k, the BMW one half of that max. etc.
But the driving feel and experience the BMW is way better vs the dull boring Camry.