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Sunday, September 11. 2016

BMW Roadsters

51 years apart: 1959 and 2010




Posted by Gwynnie in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 04:02 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Great classic traditional roadster, glad to see the concept still alive. I really prefer the look of cars like the Triumph TR6 or Austin Heally 3000 to any of the rocket ship looking sports cars currently.

[My dream car, however is a Morgan Plus 4, any year]
#1 jay on 2016-09-11 07:12 (Reply)
The roadster concept is just perfect. The Morgan was great, but my first love was the Jaguar XKE. I never drove one, but in the early stages of my senility I had a Miata, which itself is near perfect.

My wife hated the Miata, and eventually I got rid of it. Now I have an AWD Impreza. Not the same.
#2 bob sykes on 2016-09-11 07:38 (Reply)
My son has a Miata, my wife has an Outback, not on the same planet. Go buy a Miata.
#2.1 Oldblood on 2016-09-11 12:24 (Reply)
Thanks for this! Our 2001 Z3 3.0i has been a joy since the first day we got it.
#3 Honordads on 2016-09-11 16:02 (Reply)
I saw one of the 2010 BMW roadsters parked at the entrance to Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi the other day. It was beautiful!
#4 Whitehall on 2016-09-12 00:44 (Reply)
The 2010 is beautiful but the 59 is drop dead gorgeous. It's like Kate Moss vs Marilyn Monroe.
#5 lonetown on 2016-09-12 17:13 (Reply)

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