MrSpace
Legacy Member
Just sold the M3
Man I loved that car, great handling!!! But I had to sell because I only did 5000km in the year and now I need a car to do 150km per day...
Now that we use the truck for long hauls (other than commute) and carrying stuff, I want a "cheap" car... but no way I'm getting a corean.
My choices:
~1992 Mercedes-Benz 190E with ~206 000km ~$2k
~1992 BMW 3 series ~$3k
~2000-2003 Volks Jetta < 200 000km ~$3.5k
not sure
1- which one will be the cheapest/easiest to repair
2- which one can get to high mileage easily (starting at 200k, will climb fast)
3- which one will last the longer (the volks are almost all rusted under 2000, which makes me think the body panels are very weak compared to the MB and BMW)
what do you think? don't sawy BMW just because it's the BMW forum... I don'T want a money pit, but maybe the E30 is cheaper to maintain /repair?
The volks is much younger, but the rust issue on all of them scares me, where the 1992 unrusted bmw/mb give me confidence in doing 400 000km without too many problems.
Thanks
Man I loved that car, great handling!!! But I had to sell because I only did 5000km in the year and now I need a car to do 150km per day...
Now that we use the truck for long hauls (other than commute) and carrying stuff, I want a "cheap" car... but no way I'm getting a corean.
My choices:
~1992 Mercedes-Benz 190E with ~206 000km ~$2k
~1992 BMW 3 series ~$3k
~2000-2003 Volks Jetta < 200 000km ~$3.5k
not sure
1- which one will be the cheapest/easiest to repair
2- which one can get to high mileage easily (starting at 200k, will climb fast)
3- which one will last the longer (the volks are almost all rusted under 2000, which makes me think the body panels are very weak compared to the MB and BMW)
what do you think? don't sawy BMW just because it's the BMW forum... I don'T want a money pit, but maybe the E30 is cheaper to maintain /repair?
The volks is much younger, but the rust issue on all of them scares me, where the 1992 unrusted bmw/mb give me confidence in doing 400 000km without too many problems.
Thanks