BMW really expensive after the 4 year warranty is up. Owned M3 lightly used cost me ~$3000 in the first year off warranty before I sold it.

I'll never buy another BMW, may consider a Porsche but maybe not.

I mostly own Honda/Acura (Wife and Kids), currently I'm rocking an old Subaru Legacy because it's so cheap, and paid for and it runs great and great in the snow.

I can't bring myself to buy another car until I run the Subi into the ground (I think I'm punishing myself because I lost so much money on the M3)

funny when I bought my M3 I skipped over Audi due to poor experience with my VW Passat which was a nice car but expensive after 100K miles.

Here is the M3

Throttle actuator = $2000. this breaks all the time after 50M miles, my friend had M3 which engine croaked after 30K miles but was under warranty and it was covered but it would have been $12K or more if not.

$5000 for clutch
$200 Battery
$200 oil change

Yes the throttle actuator $2000 x 2

I sold my car the same day I had number one repaired, not sure but figured I had to fix it, as selling the car in limp mode was not going to work.

Also it's so ubiquitous that BMW should fix it for free or partial price.

I had an Acura MDX needed catalytic converter but was out of warranty so I paid $900 or whatever it was already at 95K miles. But a few months later Acura sent me the money back because they found the cats were failing too often and they extended the warranty to 120K miles.

That's the way to treat a common problem but BMW looks at their problem as a money maker.

In that video I posted said the original clutch pad was too weak so when fixing need to upgrade to the year later spec. BMW should extend that fix because it was their error.

IMO

I had a Brazilian made VW Fox 1988 was very dependable but not much to break in the first place, cost less (new) than a BM66 LE just saying.

Reverse cargument.

Nice car, but imagine paying $3000-$4000 out of pocket for two actuators, it's a matter of luck, if somethings fails that common, then it's a manufacturer defect and the unlucky owner should not be forced to pay.

I'm never buying another BMW ever.