RE: New member

["Jeff Lloyd" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rik,

I envy you, we in America only received the 524td while a quite competent
car in it's own right
it was released after our fuel shortages ended and never took off and was
canceled after only 2 years
with our recent increase in fuel prices (through taxation and supply
problems) I see a future
for some of the wunderbar D cars in the USA,  for now we are stuck with the
diesel VW's
mind you are quite decent cars, but not quite performance oriented

congratulations on the 8 series, a wonderful car the gas(petrol) engine
should be fine
for 300,000 miles (400,000 km?) if maintained properly, I have had several
high mileage BMW's
and except for a small oil consumption problem on all of them, they ran like
new till I eventually
got rid of them.  the American market did not take to the 8 series since
it's design is focused
around autobahn cruising in comfort and style, in the land of 55 miles per
hour it was merely a status
symbol..

I wish you the best of luck, feel free to look me up if you ever come to
America,
I am currently without BMW, I have been smitten by the Subaru WRX and I had
to sell my Z3
to save up the monies to afford it.. but for the last 9 years I have been a
BMW nut.
and have written countless letters asking BMW to bring back the diesel to
"the states"
but auto regulation is very tough that is why the WRX is the first turbo
Subaru we have
gotten in over 10 years..

good luck
Jeff Lloyd

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-bmw@domain.elided [mailto:owner-bmw@domain.elided]On Behalf Of Rik
Gruwez
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:07 AM
To: bmw-digest@domain.elided
Subject: New member


Hello list members,

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rik Gruwez and I subscribed
to this list a couple of days ago. I live in Belgium (Europe) and have loved
BMWs for quite some time. My first one was 1993 325 TD, the following one a
1997 525 TDS and now I have a 1999 530D as daily driver. The reason I have
subscribed to this list, is that last week I went completely bananas and
bought myself a 1995 850ci as a toy car. Although it has 214,000 km (133,000
miles) you would not tell when you see or drive it. I hope I do not run into
trouble with it soon, but if I do I would appreciate hearing from other E31
owners on the list.

In the mean time, if anyone needs advice on diesel BMWs, feel free to shoot.
I know the diesels are normally not available in the USA, but I do not have
a clue about how many international members there are on this list.

Regards,
Rik


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