nutsackmania In the snow with real snow tires you could drive it sideways for blocks at a time and flick it with to the other side with wrist action only.

My first car was a flawless one owner 325e with only a 140k miles. The car was still the most fun car to drive I have owned. It would literally walk sideways anywhere you wanted!!! I later bought a 325i and found it less fun to drive. I need another one..... Lol

I had an 89 model. I used to drift off ramps before drifting was a thing.

@@raymondnewbill2748 interesting you say the i was less fun than the e

I had a 1986 325es 2dr white/ black interior 5 speed... the most reliable fun to drive and drifting was stupid easy the car was balanced for it from the get go. I bought mine with 105k miles and sold it with just under 300k miles and the only bad thing that happened was that 2.7 motor had a timing belt. When the 189hp 325i came out they went back to timing chain.. oh also if other eta owners remember even though we had power windows and sun roof you could also crank open the windows and sunroof if we lost power 👍🏻and on the drivers door it said made in West Germany 🇩🇪

there's no way you should have sold iit

Better gas mileage than the 318/318is?

Noooooooo, what did you do !!!!

Ive had my es for about 13 years now. Driving it this week

Mr335iBMW Yeah seriously. I wish they would've done that more.

Mr335iBMW He drove a Honda HR-V last week.

Mr335iBMW He also did either the Pontiac Aztec or Chrysler PT Cruiser in 2000/01. I forgot which one. P.S. The MW reviews of those two have been put up.

Check 1982 Lincoln Continental review... he drives for dayz!

He reviwed the 82' Mazda

Vedant B I actually convinced myself I had been pronouncing it wrong for 35 years!

I was looking for this comment LOOOOOOOOOOOL

these bumpers are ugly. look the E30 with the EU bumpers

@@pommesmayo7336 In the US from 1973-1995, we were very used to seeing US and Foreign cars with large bumpers. For example, seeing a Euro E28 in 1990 in the US - looked so odd, it looked like the car was in an accident, due to the tiny bumpers.

It was just as fast as the 325e, especially in 318is guise. Fit the final drive from a 318/320 auto gearbox and you have a midrange similar to the 325i

Same here. I have an 88 325is

Hola

This BMW325E is economic car

@@GlennC789 Hi guys. I'll chime in here real quick. My first car (1st one actually put in MY name.) was a 1984 318i (This was 1991.) . Automatic. 1.8L 4 . I will concur with the notion about fuel efficiency. I'm pretty sure the auto only had 3 (yes 3) gears. No overdrive, which means at 60mph (in last gear) it would turn almost 3500 rpm. Not shocked to hear the 6 cyl. later got the same mpg. Over time it got kind of annoying revving that high for that long, especially on road trips. (Going 80 mph it was approaching 4000 rpm). To say that I ever got 28 mpg would be a stretch, maybe at 55 for an extended period of time. It just revved way too high. I would also add that under load, my auto really sucked wind. In the summer, with the A/C on, and a car load full of people, you'd better say your prayers if you had to pass anybody on a 2-lane highway with 2-way traffic. "Fuhgeddaboudit". My friend at the same time had an '84 318i also but his was a 5 sp. manual. Quicker, lower revs at almost any speed, probably better mpg too. More pleasant on the highway certainly (in 5th). He actually turned me on to a "beamer", and I almost bought his before I bought mine. After a few years I kinda regretted not getting his instead (his had 1 or 2 issues at the time but......). Never drove one with a 6 cyl. (325, etc.) I would've loved to see the difference.

@@Coolnerdloser The difference was night and day. The 6 cylinder autos were extremely thirsty though.

Myintegruns12s Funny he said that back then because when the E90 and E92 hit the market, I thought its styling looked a bit Japanese.

Or. Ornamental !

LOL WOW ZOMG ROFLCOPTERS HAHA!!!

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Never sell that car; it's a gem.

You must be quite a special child.

MrCarGuy20 I like to think so...

Not true, it was basically a gas powered engine geared like a diesel. I had a 1982 BMW 528e with that engine and managed to get 320,000 miles out of it. Modified, it's also the engine used in the Alpina cars from that era.

Kevin MacNutt You might wanna look that up..... This car definitely had different internals than the staple Inline-6 they regularly always used, Nothing to do with diesel gearing. Diesels are geared that way because of the engine's powerband being over by 3000 rpm max (in most cases) This cars engine had FOUR cam bearnings (instead of 7 as usual BMWS I6's) Also a more restrictive head AND SINGLE valve springs instead of double coil. Thus the weaker internals AND lower redline. This PARTICULAR engine was made this way, as I am well aware that their tried and true I-6 in everything else was the basis for their race engines.

The 2693 cc M20B27 was designed for efficiency (thus the e for the Greek letter eta in 325e) and low-rev torque.[25] Compared with the M20B25, the stroke is increased from 75 mm (3.0 in) to 81 mm (3.2 in).[24] The B27 used the head casting of '200' which had smaller valves, different camshafts, fewer cam journals, and single valve springs to increase efficiency. Due to these changes the rev limit on the B27 was reduced.Power output is 121 hp (90 kW) at 4,250 rpm for M20B27 engines produced up until 1986 and 127 hp (95 kW) at 4,800 rpm for the "325es" model produced in 1987.[24] Peak torque is 170 lb·ft (230 N·m) at 3,250 rpm for M20B27 engines. In 1987, the fuel injection was upgraded from Motronic 1.0 to Motronic 1.1/1.3.[24] In the early 1990's BMW South Africa used components from the Alpina C3 2.7 to produce a E30 specifically for Stannic Group N production car racing. The first iteration of this engine used in the E30 325iS produced 145kw and the second revision, often referred to as "Evo2" or on the VIN plate as "HP2" produced 155kw

Net max power was at 4250 so it was over by 4800 anyway. The auto used less fuel at 75mph than a manual 318i because of the longer gearing.

alfamonk yes. Economy Tuned. Because of old Oil Crisis, a Gas was still more expensive than before

Lucian Spampinato You're out of your mind. Diving board bumpers are period perfect.

@@nunyabizness8226 Bumpers that are designed to bump!