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Originally Posted by allinon72
BMWs in the last 7 years are significantly more reliable than the mid-2000s. German cars will always be "expensive" to fix because parts and labor costs are compared to domestics, where parts are cheap because of lower quality and volume of production. German cars also have more engineering behind them, which adds to complexity of repairs that lead to higher labor costs.
Every brand is going to have trade offs when it comes to ownership.
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That's good then. I have two, and at one time shortly ago, had three BMWs smack in the middle of the 2000's. All of them (an E90 and E46-based Z4) are highly reliable vehicles. The build quality of my '08 Z4 is impeccable. If you say the 2010's are built even better, then that's a reason to strongly consider a 2023 X1.
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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."