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2010 E89 Z4 with the N52 3.0 inline six. If you follow the maintenance intervals given by iDrive, recent model BMWs will go 10,000-15,000 miles between oil changes (or 1 year, whichever comes first). And before someone says 10,000-15,000 miles is a horrible idea, that's fine, but I saw no...

That's only cars for the Japanese domestic market. The Motomachi plant is serving as the processing center (VPC). Here's the press release: https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/toyota/28110994.html Cars going to Europe and North America ship out direct from Bremerhaven (alongside many other...

BMW electric power steering has been terrible as long as I can remember. This boggles my mind, because my S2000 was one of the early production vehicles with EPS and Honda got it right all the way back in 1999 when the S2000 came out. Mazda has excellent EPS across their current lineup. A...

1. I was getting one service per year which was always VA state inspection and oil/filter change. Schedule dictated by the service reminder in iDrive. No tire rotation because the car had directional tires. Every so often (maybe every 3-4 years) there would be call for cabin air filter...

Well, people have already been tracking Supras shipping out of Bremerhaven direct to the US ports of entry. So if they are sending them to Japan then somebody is driving those boats really really poorly, because they are missing Japan entirely. Seriously, it would make no sense at all to do...

Oh, and by the way, the whole point of me relaying my maintenance costs in that other thread was in response to someone wondering if the Supra would be expensive to maintain, based on the costs reported by another website for a BMW. My reply said that not only do I think the Supra will not be...

Listen, 1. I totally stand by that claim. Nothing but basic maintenance for the 8 years I owned it. And please keep it in context with the other thread where I brought that up because a website projected $3200-3500 maintenance expenses for a BMW back to back 4-5 years out that made no sense...

22nd is dealer launch -- available to public -- customers can take delivery that day.

I think he's saying that if Toyota has to go it alone with the engineering and integration for a manual transmission, it probably won't happen due to limited scale. They'd need this to be of interest to BMW and be able to share the development costs to make it feasible. I can see that. (And...

Every part on the car has a BMW stamp and BMW part number. All the interior switchgear, components, and seats are BMW. The software is BMW. And on top of that, the Z4 interior is more posh, the Z4 has a newer iDrive version, and some of the Z4's exterior details are more upscale. There is...

I can see how people forgot, that is a serious stretch of imagination right there.

About time!

I don't think I ever said BMW dictated anything to Toyota. I am pretty sure I said BMW coded it to Toyota's specs, which is still my understanding. In the early years the two companies were off doing their own thing, in fact at one point Toyota had a proof of concept vehicle cobbled together...

Tada hinted that the Supra would get frequent updates/improvements to stay fresh and keep sales up, and I expect the 382HP engine is just one of those for 2021. I think there's an article somewhere that quotes him talking about this (even admitting that a higher power version was coming)...

I agree that just having a transmission delivered to Magna Steyr is not enough to get it into production. There is a whole lot of engineering, certification, etc that has to happen before that point. Magna Steyr are manufacturing experts, but they just put stuff together, and they rely on the...

This is a likely test mule for next year's power bump.

BMW is historically all over the place with HP ratings on the B58, so this is not new. The B58M in the X3/X4 M40i is rated at 355HP crank by BMW USA but Dinan measured 354HP at the wheels and 445HP at the crank **. This is a common situation with the B58. I don't think there is any extra...

He doesn't give market breakdowns there. I only ever remember him saying the 30i model "might" come to the US, but then he later said preproduction models were built, but slim chance it would be a US model for 2020. Everything we know about Toyota's 2020 marketing confirms that. The...

Wow -- we ought to follow that one to watch it creep down with reality adjustments.

Over and over, people on this forum dramatically overstate the involvement Toyota had in the car with no basis at all (beyond wishful thinking). Let's all come back when the 385 HP Supra comes out next year with the B58D. If that doesn't prove the engine is all BMW, I don't know what will. Of...