Owners' Stories

Overall this is a great sports car, in my humble opinion. The styling is not for some, but I happen to love it -- nice not to see yourself coming and going, as they say. Handling and steering response like a go kart, and the 2.5 liter is quite peppy (but yet gets good gas mileage and is said to be indestructible). The overly harsh ride and squirlyness over pavement imperfections can be much improved by replacing the stock Bridgestone Potenzas with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 runflat tires. (Actually it's the ride that's much improved; the squirlyness disappears altogether.) (Or you could switch from runflats and go with Goodyear Eagles and probably notice vast improvement as well, but there are trunk space and other benefits to runflat tires...) Basically it's your classic late-60s British sports car updated by BMW, and thus with rock-solid reliability, impeccable handling, and great overall sporting driveability. (They don't call them Ultimate Driving Machines for nothing...) In short, a perfect car for canyon roads, weekends, and mid-life crises of all sorts.

Freeway driving rough and too sensitive with run flat tires. Replace will ride and handling much better. I had manual transmission and have to run RPM to above 4000 to get shifting to feel right. Exhaust did not sound as it should be. When set to Vent. Warm breeze came out. Steering a little too sensitive.