-five grand doesn’t get you much in a used car nowadays, particularly given the current level of insanity with late model used cars. You could get some 60k mile used 5-year old economy sedan or a 7 year old SUV…or you could put your man pants on and buy a 13 year old BMW M6 with a V10 and 6-speed manual gearbox. Find this 2009 BMW M6 convertible offered for $25,000 in Fort Worth, TX via craigslist.
Manta was a custom car company based out of Southern California (run by brothers Brad and Tim LoVette) in the 1970s/1980s that built speedy looking fiberglass superkits using donor parts from Vettes and Beetles. The Montage was one of their later offerings and used a Volkswagen Type 1 donor engine/transmission to underpin a fancy looking […]
I would seriously drive this next car every single day if I could fit a few car seats into the back…because it combines the basic practicality of a Chevy V8 that’ll get you to the grocery store and back with the menacing looks of a McLaren M6 racer. This is the car that’ll get your […]
If you want a fast luxury 2+2 Grand Tourer from the mid 2000s there are a number of good looking cars to choose from — Mercedes SLK, Jaguar XK8, Aston Martin DB7, Audi A5/S5, et cetera…but if you want something with a manual gearbox and a Bangle-butt, there is only one choice — the BMW […]
DT’s logo guru Kaibeezy has always claimed that the SF Bay area craigslist is by far the best place to search for an inexpensive classic car (your Daily Turismo) and at first the assertion seemed silly. Unfortunately, my local craigslist (Los Angeles), despite its favorable weather, is filled with a disproportionately large percentage of cars […]
We conclude our celebration of Bracq Friday with another classic coupe from Paul Bracq, but this time from his later years at BMW Design. The E24 generation BMW 6-series was built from 1976-1989 and proved that you didn’t need a V8 to build a fantastic grand tourer. It also proved that a guy named Paul Bracq […]
The BMW 6-series has only been available for 3 generations, first the E24 from 1976-1989, later the E63 from 2003-2010 and finally the F12 2011-present. The 6-series to get has always been the M6 version, but if you want one with a clutch pedal, you’ll need to get a classic…which is fine with us because […]
The E24 6-series was a luxury grand tourer from BMW with a gorgeous body designed by Paul Bracq and featured engineering supervision from Maximum Bob Lutz. The M6 version added a modified inline six engine from the M1 and barring some sort of apocalypse or DOT ban on I6 engines, the original M6 will be a […]
The e24 generation BMW M6 was sold around the world in limited quantities (just over 4,000 produced) with a sweet sounding inline 6 mated to a 5 speed manual gearbox. The Europeans received a hotter engine making an additional 30 horsepower because of the lack of restrictive US EPA mandated emissions after-treatment. A few grey-market […]
The e24 BMW 6-series was a luxury grand tourer with a large trunk and colossal price tag. Only bankers, financiers, stock brokers and other criminals could afford them when new. It was a good car in standard 630/633/635 spec, but an absolute wolf in sheep’s clothing in USA M6 trim but an even faster M6 […]