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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The stories of cars lasting to 150k miles are really reserved for toyota camry and simpler asian cars (although that reliability has gotten worse over the years). European cars have really never been as reliable and BMW is no exception. You might get the luck of the draw, but I've had a friend with a BMW 5 series that absolutely started falling apart after 5 years and 50k miles. Another friend had a BMW M3 (the fast version of the 3 series) that was constantly in the shop in the first two years of ownership.

Personally, although I would never buy a car with 98k miles on it no matter what it was, I would definitely never buy a European car with 98k miles on it. 38k, maybe, possibly. You're going to have a lot of repair costs on that thing[/quote]

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This person gets it.  BMW is known as one of the least reliable makes out there.  The cars are always in the shop and the imported parts cost a fortune.  To make matters worse, the car was probably leased twice which means the entire 100k mileage the car was driven HARD and it’s likely to have serious problems sooner than later.

Since someone mentioned Toyota Camry, look how much this vehicle is worth.  Basically the same thing with almost as many miles even though it‘s the barebones base model and new was 20k while the BMW was 40k.  That’s because the Toyota will make it to 200k miles or even 250 or 300.  That BMW will be lucky to make it to 150.[/quote]

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