
I would have rather done the miles in my 15 year old, 200K+ mile E36 BMW. Unfortunately, I hit a pothole the size of a moon crater last week and took out a tire, rim and pieces of the suspension. The suspension was already in need of work and the pothole just added to that. Driving a car for 1100 miles on a 15 year-old, never used, spare tire was not a good idea. I could have bought some new tires, I guess, but with the car banging and pulling severely to the right it seems like a good idea to check all that out before dropping money on tires.
To make matters worse, I pulled up to my destination and out front was a beautiful E28 5 Series (Shown at top. My ride, the Focus, is behind it.) It belongs to my cousin. She drove it from NY to VA. I'm in a Ford Focus and she's in one of the nicest unrestored E28s I have seen in awhile. Life isn't fair.
I like my cousin a lot. She deserves a nice car like that. Really. She just doesn't deserve it on a weekend that I'm in a rented Ford Focus. No one does.
My cousin's car is not for sale, but there are some nice E28s out there...
I have always like the E28. I guess it's the angular, purposeful look that attracts me to it. (Honestly, I don't think BMW ever made a bad looking 5 Series. It's just that the later, rounded cars, although brilliant, look more like luxury cars and less like sports sedans.)
Being a 1980s car, you have to deal with monster bumpers and emissions strangled engines, but it wasn't a bad car at all. In fact, it's pretty enjoyable.
The E28 to have is the 533i. In its day, it was the fastest sedan sold in America. There are very few around today.


The amazing thing about the E28 is that it doesn't sell for a lot of money. This car, with just over 102,000 miles on it, is being offered for a very low $1850.00. The 533i is a lot of car for very little money.

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