BMW’s Joy of Driving

Who is BMW kidding with their new Joy of Driving campaign? Suckers beware, there’s no joy in repair. Give me a warranty instead.

My wife drives an aging 2004 BMW X5, the worst car decision I ever made: in the past 14 months, numerous expensive components have failed (one by one a few months apart), lulling me one at a time into a painful $10K to keep this lemon running.

Had I known, I would have dumped this turd 18 months ago for a new pre-owned replacement with 7/100K warranty. I am furious this ultimate dunning machine started failing piece by piece as soon as the warranty expired. And the LCD screen / NAV system is now glitched, and it’s next to fail I presume. Maybe I can trade it for a Toyota, at least those “keep going”!