Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Hagerty" channel.

  1. Most 30 year old cars look much nicer than today’s designs. But I agree it’s a gorgeous design.
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  2. BMW, from the late 60s through the mid-80s was run by hardcore racers and engineers. It’s why their cars from 1970 through 2002 were great (cars have long lead times and processes + values/culture doesn’t disappear over night...that’s why even when it got big and corporate, it took until about 2003 before their new cars started to really suck).
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  3. DUN (like everyone else said). In 2011, I sold my 1998 (therefore, only S52) Estoril Blue M Coupe with 72k in 2011, which was in just good (not in near mint or anything), for $24,000 after buying the car for $25,500 in 2006. Basically, besides insurance and routine maintenance/wear and tear parts, the car was free due its classic status. This guy doesn’t even know model years and this car has been going up in value FOREVER and everyone knew because of its small build numbers, super unique looks,
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  4. I’ve driven this track in my 1998 M Coupe and raced on it in my 1971 2002. Super fun track. Race tracks are always in the middle of nowhere, but Thunderhill is ANOTHER 100 mile from nowhere. That’s what makes it beautiful though cause it has some of the greatest roads in the world on the way to the track.
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  5. If all its competitors also died off, then it wasn’t down to the car. Obviously something was happening with consumer preferences, the economy or a combo of those and other factors.
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  6. One of the reason new cars look so like is the pedestrian impact requirements. It tends to make front proportions look awful.
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  7. The BMW that produced the E30 M3 might be compared to a Tesla or early Apple company. Its engineering nucleus’ formed in the ‘60s (hatching BMW’s best ever car (the 1600/2002). In the ‘70s, like a 2000s Google, they started getting all the best talent who saw the hardcore, fwd thinking engineering culture of those that made the 2002 and liberal corporate management. Then, being small and nimble, development led by hardcore engineers rather than bean counters, marketing men or a boardroom of dinosaurs, in turn both attracted and spawned a super enthusiastic, dedicated and skilled body of machinists, assemblymen, etc. that could be relied on to execute on building highly engineered cars with the necessary precision (there’s a great 1970s documentary inside the factory on YT that shows how high of a level they were operating on and how innovative the company was). It was this group that developed the company into icon it is and was responsible for all its greatest cars and the glory 80s- and 90s years. No surprise that its last great cars, the M Coupe, E46 M3 and E39 M5, were the last designed and developed by that group before most were gone into retirement or death.
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