Illustrated BMW Buyer's Guide (Illustrated Buyer's Guide) (Paperback)

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Product Description

This bestselling guidebook details all of the BMW models. Each car is coveredwith full development history, specifications, production numbers, investmentadvice, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 190 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks; 2 Sub edition (May 13, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879387548
• ISBN-13: 978-0879387549
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #957,288 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful, although outdated, September 18, 1999

By A Customer

I disagree with other reviews that recommend you don't waste your money on it. I know of no other book that provides the information that this one does, and found it extremely useful when shopping for a BMW. I wish it included a table (which I ended up creating myself) of "Buy/Don't Buy" models.

If you don't know about BMWs, it is useful.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Desperately needs a rewrite, February 15, 1999

By	John Rosevear (Massachusetts USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This was probably a fine book when it was first written in the early 1980s, but it's been badly (cheaply?) updated since. It's now almost incoherent -- certainly not up to the standard set by some of the (excellent) other books in this series (Corvette, Mercedes, Ferrari). Needs a cover-to-cover rewrite, done by someone knowledgable. Don't waste your money until it happens.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars PaulG's review, June 30, 2003

By	"tyr666" (CT) - See all my reviews

I tend to agree with other reviewer about this book needing to be completely rewritten. Even though it was revised in 1994, the author still makes references to things occuring in 1987 "at current press time." Clearly, the original text wasn't revised. If the book was revised in 1994, these type of references should has been eliminated. Other than the text being out of date, the book itself has a lot of worthwhile information. The author rates the collectability (if that's a word) of each of the cars using a five star system.