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Reliability: your fears are not unfounded. The N series of engines festooning the engine bays of the F10 BMW is notorious for their lack of dependability and cost of curative maintenance. This is how bad they can get: I once had a lady offer a key-to-key trade between my 1993 E34 5 Series (M50 engine, Germany’s version of the legendary 2JZ) and her late model F30 3 Series (which uses more or less the same N family of engines as the F10). Why? She was sick of it; sick of shelling out fistfuls of cash to breathe life into an engine that seemed to have lost the will to live the moment it was loaded onto the cargo ship that brought it over. And she was serious; she was ready and willing to exchange her new, shiny, fancy car for one that costs less than the exhaust system on her car. I said no.

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JM Baraza: Driving and back care

Help me choose between the S10 Crown Athlete and the F10 5 Series

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