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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
The E21 is what got me hooked on BMW. My first drive in a BMW was in 1978 in my brother's friend's '76 E21iS. To this day I can still feel the steering wheel undulate in my hands as I just drove it 400 feet up our gravel driveway. I've never owned an E21, but I've had a few thousand miles of seat time in a few in the early 1980's when they were still new cars. The E21 was not fast accelerating (most cars back then weren't either) but at speed the E21 chassis was magic. 85, 100, 110 MPH, it just smoothed out and ate miles like nobody's business. The E30 was the same.
Pardon me while I go kick myself in the ass for selling mine in 2006...
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I had no frame of reference when I owned my E21, but I do remember the manual steering! I really mistreated that car, but you are right, it didn’t have to be fast to be fun.