It's a 3.0 V6 with a Tiptronic auto, and pretty much every option except leather (which I don't particularly like anyway). 137K miles, tested till October and taxed till the end of August. It was £760. Which is less than half what a contemporary 528i or E300 would make, and less even than contemporary Omega MV6's are making. And everything works on it, apart from one headlight bulb (HID, so not going to be cheap to replace unless I replace it with one of those blue-tinted halogen bulbs) and the little green indicator warning lights on the dash. The dash did flicker briefly when I turned the headlights on, but it turned out that that was just because the battery earth lead had come off so everything was running off the alternator. Most modern cars would either cut out or go completely haywire if that sort of thing happened (my old 820i used to randomly wind its electric windows up and down, for example). It's also chuffing brilliant to drive (although I'm still not 100% convinced about the Tiptronic thing) and not even particularly thirsty. I really can't fathom why it didn't make four figures at least. The problem is that although it's great I got it so cheap, I'm shortly going to be selling the red one, which is not as clean and is a much more basic spec, albeit slightly newer and lower mileage, and it also has no tax. So what am I looking at? £500? I'd almost be better off cutting off the cats, taking the wheels off and weighing it in. It's ridiculous...
