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C $20,000.00
Year:1988 Mileage:70215 Color: Gray /
 Blue
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Transmission:Automatic
Body Type:Coupe
Vehicle Title:Clear
Engine:M30
Fuel Type:Gasoline
For Sale By:Private Seller
VIN: WBAEC890500766303 Year: 1988
Make: BMW
Model: 6-Series
Options: Sunroof, Leather Seats, CD Player
Mileage: 70,215
Power Options: Air Conditioning, Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats
Sub Model: 635CSI
Exterior Color: Gray
Interior Color: Blue
Warranty: Vehicle does NOT have an existing warranty
Number of Cylinders: 6
Condition: Used

Ahhhh yes, "THE SHARK". This car is an excellent example of the model. It has only 113k KM/70215 MI on the clock. As you can see, the engine is almost so clean, you can eat off it. It was a Japan export model, only around 400 were made. I would rate it 8.5/10. Has some wear, notably the leather seats, which need reconditioning, but have no tears. I have ordered custom 2 tone seat covers for them. There is a couple of paint scuffs on the air dam I plan on repairing. It has locking Alpina rims, which are around 1K apiece, if memory serves. I have new spare tires for the back. These are low profile 17's. Alpine sound system with 6 disk cd changer. Everything mechanical works with the exception of the passenger head rest going up and down. It's an easy fix, if you look on the internet. A/C is ice cold. Yes, it DOES have the A/C cooled mini fridge built into the back seats...these Germans! (sigh)
This car is NOT an M6. The previous owner was obviously a bit of an M fan. I left the stickers and such because it makes a good douche meter for the purists. Contact me with any questions.

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Company car offers in decline, but not at The Cheesecake Factory [w/poll]

Sat, 22 Jun 2013

As businesses look to keep high-level employees happy, it seems that use of company cars can still be an effective method, although fewer companies are employing it. According to Businessweek, only about 25 percent of companies offer company vehicles as a perk, while less than half give allowances for employees to use their personal vehicles for work purposes.
The report says that one business still in the practice of handing out company cars is The Cheesecake Factory, which offers the benefit to top managers. And we're not talking about some econobox, either. The article indicates the restaurant chain hands out BMWs on a three-year basis - although the company's own report says that the type of vehicle "varies with the executive's level."
Still, we mostly agree with the article's conclusion that money is the best way to keep employees or attract new ones, even if a corporate car is a big perk. What do you think? Let us know, in the poll below, whether a company car could sway you to work for a certain company (not just the Cheesecake factory, where the "Glamburgers" portion of the menu alone is enough to keep a guy hanging around).

BMW X4 hatches its fastback shape in Shanghai

Fri, 19 Apr 2013

The day has finally come for BMW to pull the covers off its X4 Concept at the Shanghai Motor Show. The machine brings few surprises - we've already seen an official image gallery from the German automaker, so its exterior shape was well known - but at least now we get to see it with our own eyes, and with the lenses of our very own cameras.
You can clearly see the fastback roofline in our high-res image gallery above, along with the jacked-up stance that allows BMW to call this machine a Sports Activity Vehicle, which basically means "Crossover" to our friends in Munich. We've seen similar vehicle shapes before, most notably in the form of the BMW X6, but also as far back as the 1980s from the likes of AMC.
We fully expect the transition from concept to production to be pretty seamless, so what we see here is, for the most part, what we'll see on the showroom floor in 2014. Feel free to peruse the press release below, but first, be sure to browse through our live images from Shanghai and let us know what you think.

BMW X4 opens up alongside its boxier brother

Tue, 01 Oct 2013

It doesn't seem so long ago that BMW (not to mention Audi, Volvo and a handful of other European automakers) weren't in the crossover market. But it's been over a decade since BMW began producing the first-gen X5, and in the fourteen years since, the Bavarian automaker has steadily expanded its portfolio to include the X1, X3 and X6.
The next to join the family will be the X4, which is essentially to the X3 what the X6 is to the X5. That is to say, basically the same vehicle, only with an (arguably) more stylish but less utile roofline. Previewed in concept form at the Shanghai Auto Show half a year ago, the X4 has been snapped by our plucky paparazzi in the past, but this is the first time we've seen inside.
Not only that, but the prototype in question was spotted next to the current X3 on which it is based, which gives us ample opportunity to see the differences between them. Of course, that still primarily comes down to the slantback profile, because otherwise, the two are essentially the same inside and out. Or at least they will be: many of the differences between the two are expected to port over to the X3 when it's refreshed next year, including some subtle interior upgrades - just not the roofline.