Julian Edgar, 47, has been writing about car modification and automotive
technology for 20 years. He has owned cars with two, three, four, five, six
and eight cylinders; single turbo, twin turbo, supercharged, diesel and
hybrid electric drivelines. He lists his automotive interests as
turbocharging, aerodynamics, suspension design and human powered vehicles.
I don’t want one any more…
It’s perhaps the only car that I have always wanted – well, from the day of its release, anyway.
The year was 1988 and the BMW 750iL was an astonishing car – twin electronically-controlled throttles, 12 cylinders, a limousine that handled so well that contemporary magazine testers were able to triple advisory speed limit signs around corners. On just six of the twelve cylinders, it could still exceed 200 km/h…
I’ve watched and watched as their prices have fallen – in 1988 the cars were $216,000; each year since they’ve got lower. Now, they’re under $10,000.
Less than ten grand for what was amongst the very fastest of four door cars in the world, a superbly equipped, beautiful looking sedan from that long ago time when BMW styling still had grace and cohesion.
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