Tfw can't find an 8-series with less than 80,000 miles on it

The 850CSi came also in 6 speed manual

I really beg to differ on the unreliability part. The engine itself is nigh bomb proof, the electronics around it can be extremely finicky though.

That toms turbo garage guy on youtube ls swapped his miata and has cruise control, ac, factory gauges

>>it makes pretty shitty power for a v12 has no aftermarket or power potential
I'm pretty sure guys have gotten to 185 mph no sweat with them. What are you talking about?

This

I'm a huge V12 fan but I would go with the V8 in this case. The M70 sounds like an inline-6

If it isn't making 1000hp from the block with just different cams, it's shit. T. American.

If you have to ruin an 8 series with an LS, at least ruin some fucked 840, leave the 850's alone as those things start to become quite collectible and will fetch a really decent price really soon if they are untampered with, especially from BMW autists like me.

>knows nothing about 850s
>pretends he knows everything about them

Just kill yourself my man. Like, right now.

In the 850CSI with 370hp probably, the normal V12's make 296hp. Meanwhile the M102 from 1981 made 252hp, granted with a turbo but it was lacking 6 cylinders.

Well, it is kind of two M20's stuck together.

Seconding this, 850's are hard to come by anyways so its not likely youll be able to pick one up.

Besides all the 840i's that came over here were automatic so, you're doing us a favor.

6 850is or cis on my craigs, 4 840cis. They pop up quite a bit and you can still get a beat one for next to nothing.

Because it will cost an arm and a leg to fix them.

They will be super collectible in a few decades, but right now everyone wants the old M3s and M5s.

You live out in cali? becuase there's fuck all on the eastern seaboard.

>mfw there's 4 850ci's for sale here in my city
>mfw they all have less than 70k KILOMETERS (35k miles)
>mfw they're all immaculate cost between 14k-20k

I'm going to sell my boxster and buy one very, very soon.

We'll see. I looked at a few and came really close to buying one but ultimately I think E24s are even more underpriced so I picked one up instead. No matter what happens I don't think an 850i will be a better buy than an 840ci. 850ci is a bit better from a "hope it goes up in value" standpoint and a bit worse than the 840 from an actually driving the car standpoint.

Yeah. You need to expand your horizons if you want low production cars, flying out to look at a car and having it shipped back is ~$2k, much less than the markup you pay on the East Coast for classics/not rusted rarities.

This. It's pigfat, usually autotragic, and makes about as much horsepower as a c4 corvette with far less reliability and 8x the parts cost.

But it's a BMW, so you can say you own a BMW for what it's worth.

the csi only came in manual

the engine itself is bulletproof, it's whats around it and some of the electronics that tend to shit the bed.

Its the kind of car, like most bmw's that no matter what goes wrong it will always limp home safe.

a lot of people in bimmerforums roadtrip them across the country all the time and they don't carry much besides a couple extra hoses and a voltage regulator for the alternator.

Im pretty sure all the common maintenance items are easy to find. and there's also non BMW aftermarket bits that give you much cheaper maintenance and the same performance.

>i think it sounds good with a catbac and x pipe

and im not sure why you would want more performance on a comfy german yacht, that will regardless hit 300kmh stock. (atleast the 850 does)

I've wanted one for a long time

Your logic is flawed but I'm too lazy to type out why. Bye

>TFW somebody in my podunk town had an 850CSi with a Manual for sale years ago
>MFW I had no money to make an offer on it, let alone buy it

It had some bodywork issues, but the interior was nice and everything except the electrics worked well. Best bet is a collector from out of state bought it, because it was like of only so many 8-Series ever made in bright red.

>literal ragequitting

The 850 is also a poor mans super car, you get V12 bragging rights

This, the 850's aren't inherently unreliable, they're as reliable as you make them be. Sure once something hits the fan, you're going bankrupt, but it's not like that shit isn't perventable.
T. Current owner of 2 V12 BMWs

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>less than 80,000
that's not realistic, most people put on close to 10k a year at least

There was one in Keller, TX (outside of Fort Worth) on Craigslist literally last week, but it was sold pretty quickly.

It was practically mint. 10k miles, I think.