You're a bit behind the times, our E34 Alpina B10 had an electronic throttle, it was a 1989 car!
if you buy all this fear-mongering idiocy that electronic throttle is a
> problem, and that brakes, transmissions and ignition kill switches can
> all simultaneously fail causing a driver to lose control, it might be
> worth auto manufacturers of all stripes to adopt a slightly different
> implementation of electronic throttle [e.t.] - if not for mechanical
> reasons, but to shut the idiots up.