Bent as a three bob note....

More of an excuse to put up a picture of a car I was never quite sure was worth the money. Sure, it was fast, James Bond used it, and it looks pretty nice, but it never quite looked different enough from the Z3 for my liking, especially when it was 3 or 4 times the price if said car. Anyway, it turns out all those nasty people who buy cars to stash away in some air-cooled garage for 20 years, only to bring them out at auction time and make lots of profit are panicking, as apparently (and allegedly, for legal reasons) the aluminium (and yes, it does have an "i" after the "n" for you Americans) chasis is a little prone to warping. Maybe it just wants to be more shaped like it's newer Beemer brethren with all their fancy lines in the side of the bodywork.

Dangerous Curves? BMW Z8 owners reporting cases of chassis warpage - Autoblog