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No comments about the Gen 3 style hood vent? Love how the guy is wearing his V Blackwing shirt, a true enthusiast. Hopefully he is made whole and can get another one without a huge wait. When I drive to the city I park in the one garage I can find that does NOT have a valet.

As much as I love the Tech Bronze wheels, I've heard they're no lighter than standard.

Drove my 5BW to a BMW "M Tour" event (basically just test drives without a salesperson) just for giggles. Took out an M3 Competition RWD (and an i4 M50 since my wife is interested). I'm glad I went with the 5BW. The M3 was fast (although 5BW feels faster to me - they have virtually identical...

Mine too, a little embarrassing.

Ceramic coat + pressure washer will get rid of 90% of it.

There are very few, if any crackles/pops in Tour mode, and you still have one lower exhaust mode to go below that. I agree it's usually pretty annoying, but I like them on the BW... although part of me dislikes that they're obviously engineered in since they don't exist in some modes, and they...

Couldn't agree more with this whole post. Owned an E39 M5 and E90 M3 manual. The Blackwings are more modern, more reliable, and better versions of those.

Oh I don't really care. They definitely are smaller than most, but the interior camera mirror is so expansive I find myself needing the side mirrors less anyway. Appearance-wise, small mirrors look nicer than big goofy ones IMO.

I kinda like the new front. I have my '23 now, but maybe the other order I still have at a low-volume local dealer will finally come through and I'll upgrade to a '25. And if the allocation comes in for a '24 I'll just say, "I'd like carbon, please" and boom, will be delayed at least another...

I've only stalled it a couple of times (honest!) but once was today and I ran into the same situation. I was rolling at a slow walk, but had to suddenly stop in order to restart the car. Was glad the person behind me wasn't following too close and wasn't paying attention. Seems unnecessary when...

Sums it up pretty nicely for me:

Mine's been worse lately too. Have managed to get it working again without restarting the car by turning bluetooth off and on again on the phone, but sometimes it takes a couple of tries. Frustrating because I use AA every time I drive.

Sorry to hear, but that aside, wow those tires are wide!!

I'll jump in. I'm totally in love with my 5BW due to its ability to be an outstanding all-rounder. I truly have loved the 6 other cars I've owned - first car a modified Integra that finished in the top 10% overall in autocrosses regularly, followed by E39 M5, S2000, E90 M3 manual sedan, Lotus...

I have 2,800 miles on my 5BW 6MT over 3.5 months as a daily driver. No complaints to speak of other than the range is pretty pitiful, oh and as mentioned the turning radius is abysmal. I only drive very locally most of the week, but 1x/wk drive 85mi round trip to the city and also drive it on...

And just in time for summer!

That argument is moot though since I believe even the base 5BW seats have heat/vent/massage/power. The $8,090 is on top of that base seat.

The 5BW also looks a lot lower than mine - I have a lot more fender gap. These are probably all just CGI anyway.

I thought about getting the same, or SIXSIX8.

Yeah I haven't had trouble either, though have only tried it on 2-3. I'm enjoying it a lot more than I thought it would, sounds awesome and results in a very quick and smooth shift.