If you own a BMW or ever think you may ever buy one, you should get yourself a membership in the BMW Car Club of America. There are several benefits, but the best part is that you get a subscription to the club magazine, The Roundel. This has to be the best, highest quality car club magazine in existence. Production quality is as good as Road and Track or Car & Driver with great feature stories, a big letters section and a big technical Q/A column written by a BMW mechanic who is not shy about telling you when BMW does something wrong in the design of their cars. For example, recent issue had a person asking if he should keep a high miles E36 or trade on an E46. The technical editor provided a long list of screw-ups BMW made in the design/manufacture of the E36 and said he would not own one for that reason. (E46's are better.)
You have to love a single-manqué club magazine that is not afraid to skewer their object of affection when it deserves it (and judging by some of the letters Roundel gets, BMW deserves it a lot).
Just join, it's well worth it. You even get a fat discount on BMW's after being in a year.
- nopcbs