I thought they'd total mine when I had a head-on collision with some loggers in a pickup truck who were going home after a long day. It was on a one lane driveway into the vineyard I was living on at the time. I'd just been to town and bought a new stereo for it. Lucky for me the stereo shop went against their no return policy and I was able to take the stereo back. A week later my back seized up and I couldn't even get out of bed. The car was fixed after about 6 weeks or so. I sold it shortly after getting married as my new wife found the 'Teutonic' flavor of the stick shift not to her liking, but she could drive our new Honda Accord hatchback no problem. I knew BMW was in real trouble after buying the Honda. All the fun of the 1600 but with the lightness in the controls that the Bimmer just couldn't touch.