{"id":334,"date":"2023-01-23T04:02:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/?page_id=334"},"modified":"2023-01-23T04:02:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T23:02:11","slug":"bmw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/bmw\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve a fascination with these things.  It&#8217;s not the bling, as I like the ugly ones. Well, not the <em>new ugly<\/em> ones! They really are ugly.  No, the older ugly ones. The ones with a nice(ish) face but a fuggy body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not the oil they consume, or that which they expel. Or the kidney punch suspension &#8211; well, okay fine, the firm-beyond-reason suspension is a huge part of the ride in the sanely powered cars that I can afford. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ride I adore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The older but not that old cars still offer everything a BMW stood for, and for a capable owner they present a great deal. They really were <em>the ultimate driving machine<\/em>. All the vehicles that came after are less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But you see, for me the big appeal is that they are <em>hackable<\/em>.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they are Bavarian.  I&#8217;m afraid the new ones are not anymore.<br>These cars expect your attention. They demand competence in ownership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I find they are a wonderful <em>tell<\/em> with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This section will grow at some point, but for now it will collect links.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will attempt to keep this page fairly up to date \u2013 feel free to post links in the comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mega.nz\/folder\/D9RSzQDQ#kfkRj1wG6VHRtemuG7Lv0g\">https:\/\/mega.nz\/folder\/D9RSzQDQ#kfkRj1wG6VHRtemuG7Lv0g<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bimmer-service.com\/rheingold-ista\/\">https:\/\/www.bimmer-service.com\/rheingold-ista\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve a fascination with these things. It&#8217;s not the bling, as I like the ugly ones. Well, not the new ugly ones! They really are ugly. No, the older ugly ones. The ones with a nice(ish) face but a fuggy body.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the oil they consume, or that which they expel. Or the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-334","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainlessideas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}