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    BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725

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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725
    Crackpipe... and I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.
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    Image of Ford Tempo Fanatic Ford Tempo Fanatic
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Now if anyone, even just one, person at Chrysler had half a brain, they'd really grab this opportunity. Safety is important, and a fantastic selling point.

    This may be the one and only thing Dodge can shove into Toyota's face and actually have ground to stand on.
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    Image of 1300ccsoffury 1300ccsoffury
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725
    Ja, ze depreciation curve vill be epic.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725
    Wait a minute... something's not adding up here...

    4.4-liter V8 with 400hp and 450 lb-ft of torque, and a transmissions with eight necessarily closely-spaced gear ratios (meaning that the first gear must be exceptionally low for a car), and the 0-60 time is only 5.4 seconds?

    Really?

    What's the German word for "huge beer gut", because this car, and the engineers that designed it, must have them if that's the best they can manage with that much power.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    11/18/09

    @pauljones: I know right? Mm 10-year-old Jaguar, with a 4.0 liter supercharged V8 makes 370 HP and scoots to 60 in 5.3 seconds, and it does that with a Mercedes five speed and 4500lbs of heft.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/18/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: And it's infinitely classier, to boot.

    I'm still rooting for the eventual completion of the Continental, though.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    11/18/09

    @pauljones: Well, I'm looking for a big garage... er, house, right now so I can have a place to do some real work. The garage it's in right now is the limiting factor. I need space and 220V.

    A three car divided into an oversized two bay and an oversized single bay got away due to slow realtor syndrome last week. I almost cried.
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    Image of rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy
    11/18/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: and it's built on a chassis as old as the idea of the automobile itself. i don't mean any hate, there's an X308 XJR in my family too, and i love it to death when i'm flooring it in a straight line, but the chassis is ancient.
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    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    11/19/09

    @rimplestultskin, macberry fanboy: Ancient AND bendy.
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    Image of Alfisted Alfisted
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725
    Panamera, we've found your wingman.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW 5-Series GT Pricing Starts At $64,725
    And the cheaper X5 is a bad choice because. . . .
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/18/09


    @Schm: "..And the cheaper X5 is a bad choice because..."

    Dude. It's an X5. Just LOOK at it.
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    Image of jark jark
    11/18/09

    @Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .: too tall, uglier, probably even heavier…
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    Image of superveloce superveloce
    11/18/09

    @DoctorNine: I say it's a toss-up for which one wins the award for dumb ass fugly douchebaggery on wheels.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    11/18/09

    @superveloce: The amphibious Veyron has them both beat.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    11/18/09

    @superveloce: I laud you for your eloquence!
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    11/18/09

    @DoctorNine: Woah, woah, the X5 isn't that bad of a car. And it's not that bad looking either, if you line up the ML, Q7 and X5, they're all pretty similar in uglyness.

    The 5GT just sucks. We all can agree that the 5-Series Estate owns them all.
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    Image of MR42HH MR42HH
    11/19/09

    @Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .:
    The 5GT is a too tall obese BMW. The X5 is an even taller, even more obese BMW.
    The 5GT is absurd, but not as absurd as the X5.
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    Image of brandegee brandegee
    11/19/09

    @Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .: Thank you, yes. Even Bangle-ized, the Estate is a good-looking piece of machinery.
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    Image of HDC HDC
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Wow. A reason to actually buy a Sebring, Journey, Avenger, or Patriot. I see much potential in these otherwise craptastic vehicles as destruction derby rides.
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    Image of quayzar quayzar
    11/18/09

    @HDC: That's the ugly duckling moral.

    It's OK that you are such a terrible car now little Chrysler. As you will grow up to be the only car still running in a demolition derby when you lose half your value next year.

    And with that the little Chrysler was no longer self conscious about it's looks as it knows that for it's true purpose in life looks don't matter.

    Chug along little shit box, chug along to victory.
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    Image of HDC HDC
    11/18/09

    @quayzar: As long as the transmission holds out, yer golden.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Want to be safe? Just buy the black car with the concrete front in the first picture.
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    Image of Rabbi Dave Rabbi Dave
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Just a big FYI
    The IIHS does not test Porsches. It does not test many of the most expensive BMWs and Mercedes either. Therefore their absence should not make a big difference.

    The IIHS told us they tested only 52 roofs at this point. Why? Because when they told manufacturers of the tests and asked them to send cars they thought had a chance of passing, all they got was 52. of those 27 passed. They will add new models to the list throughout the year though as they do more testing. That's why so many 2010 models were rushed through the old testing to get 2009 awards.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Single most important safety feature: an alert driver. Everything else is bandaids to minimize the consequences of the driver's failure, both of this vehicle and of those around him.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List

    I guess it would be best to drive in overstuffed furniture. That would, you know, cushion any impacts.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    11/18/09

    @DoctorNine: Where's the cup holders?!
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    Image of YankBoffin YankBoffin
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    Wow, a Sebring superlative that does begin with the word "worst."
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    Image of BigHarv BigHarv
    11/18/09

    In reply to BMW, Toyota Don't Make IIHS 2010 Top Safety List
    The S80, Ford Taurus and Lincoln MKS all share architecture-no surprises there #iihs
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    11/17/09

    In reply to 1988 E30 M3 for a Fender-Blistering $39,000!
    You can buy a clean, driver quality one for under half that and not be afraid to take it out of the garage. Crack pipe all the way.

    *Shameless plug alert*
    More on the E30 M3:
    [www.examiner.com] #bmw
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/17/09

    In reply to 1988 E30 M3 for a Fender-Blistering $39,000!
    I'd rather have this than any new Bimmer, so... what could you buy for $39,000 that would be better? (and I'm curious to see what you'll come up with) #bmw
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    Image of Correlation is a dirty scopes Correlation is a dirty scopes
    11/17/09

    @Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est: Staying with BMWs, I'd rather have an e39 M5 or a 1st gen M coupe. You can get both for under 39,000 easily.

    Looking at an M Coupe, I just remembered how much I'd like one. . . #bmw
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/17/09

    @Correlation is a dirty scopes: Two of them is not a bad suggestion, but I think that the M Coupé is my fave. #bmw
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