If it's going to be driven 4-5 times a year, why not rent a car for one of those 4-5 times and keep the car you love?

Dealer. Lease return, CPO. The day I picked it up, I found they put four brand new tires on it when the old ones still had some life.

I kind of like the X6, but I like my money a whole lot more. I haven't seen an X4 in person, but they seem pretty cool, too. However, a new one's pushing $60K.

German cars do not traditionally have cup holders since they think its not right to drink stuff in your car. Even somewhat recently I know many non SUVs had cup holders added on US spec models for us barbaric Americans and when they did they were wonderfully over-engineered in German fashion but not always useful. It has been changing over the years though but usually they make them so it can be hidden.

That's what we do now, and it works really well. We also have other short-term transportation that we use like Car2Go and the bus, since we live in the central city.

It makes no financial sense to buy a new car, but at some point when your only car is 14 years old you start thinking about potential hassles if it eventually starts having problems, and I want to avoid that problem. I grimace, though, because the apricot Z looks and drives like it's brand new.

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That's what I'm looking to do, but I'm not seeing any deals like that. How old was yours when you got it?

As a fellow BMW owner I would recommend looking for a X3. I bet you can get one that may have a few more miles, but still not too many more, very close to the price range of a used X1. And if I may ask. What are you looking to get for your little roadster?

Do you have a picture of your current BMW? I have a friend here in KC that buys all sorts of BWMs, especially odd color ones.

You may consider casting a wider net to southern states just to see what pricing is like. Dallas and particularly Houston seemed to have a nice supply of off lease CPOs whenever I have been in the market and don't have the wear of winter and I-70 on them.

Sure I can put a BMW frame on it.

If your half ass local, I have a BMW dealership as well, if you are interested in pre-owned. PM me.

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It's a tough call once it starts getting that old since you can absorb some repairs and still be ahead vs. something newer. Particularly if it has been reliable to that point but aging German cars can get bad.

I'm pondering what it's worth. The median price for my year and model is about $9,500 on cars.com. My car's probably a little above median in mileage since it's just about to hit 100,000 miles, but I'm not kidding when I say that it's showroom new. It's pretty much pristine and has had every maintenance done on schedule for the past 12 years. It looks and drives like a new car. And all kidding about apricot aside, it's also considered to be a rare color of which only a handful were made, it's a really cool color. I don't know if that helps the value at all, but an apricot Z probably doesn't come on to the market very often at all. This car's actually on web sites.

I'm thinking I'll probably ask about $10,000 for it, but for you I'd go down to $9,000.

2011 with 19k miles.

I'm assuming you own the car outright. What's the reason you can't keep it as the insurance and maintenance costs shouldn't be a ton if it's in that good of shape like you say. Not to mention financially your obviously doing ok if you're looking to buy another BMW! I doubt my wife and I could ever share one car either.