Restoring BMW's most bizarre and hated car

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Rich buys many weird and wonderful thing, this time its one of BMWs biggest and weirdest design choices, can we give it a new life? watch and find out

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[patchnauty]

Rich. Thank you for making this video 40 minutes long instead of splitting it up for 4 separate videos like every other YouTuber.

[billsilcott]

I LOVE the clown shoe, and that inline 6 is practically bulletproof. I find this particular setup very easy to work on, and BMW did an exceptional job of keeping everything so simple. In my opinion, this era of BMW is my all time favorite.

[kdag]

Man, I’ve always loved this car, I’m surprised ppl hate them so much. Every single time I’ve seen one I’ve liked it.

[fatal]

Rich's sponsor transitions are almost as legendary as Linus's at this point.

[avoirdupois]

This is why I love this channel. Witty commentary, epic teardowns, and actual rebuilding.

[autoshineblackpool]

Love these. Just a shame you got a watered down version and not the proper one from Europe with the s50b32, now that was an awesome car.

[toddclancy]

The banter of Rich and Stevon is always entertaining.

[jramseier]

I'm a girl and this is the only car channel I follow. I found it when i was doing a deep dive on electric cars. Then the van build came out and I got hooked with the stories, humor and unique content ever since. Keep up the good work :D
The one thing that was disappointing in both vans was the toilet, the log chopper doesn't seem very comfy :x

[PeacefulPagoda]

I literally had no idea you could knock the dents out of a rim until I watched this. Damn, you really do learn something new every day haha Thanks, Rich.

[Sickone.]

That Dave Chappelle scream after Rich hammered his hand 🤣

[pennysmurf]

Wow Stevon was waxing that car like Amber was on his mind. Shout out to Uncle Rich the perpetual wingman.

[TheCTHarlem]

When RIch busts his fingers and shout's like Dave Chappelle LMAO!

[SamuelMorel]

30:53 this pause was exactly 6 seconds but it should have definitely been longer. I love getting intensely stared at

[wesselvdb]

Nicely done guys, just missed one thing i.m.o. : replacing the vanos seals, helps a lot with low end power, biggest change I noticed was not having the sudden "kick" in power after 4K rpm (works for almost all 6 cil single and double vanos BMW engines)

[VersanGetryx]

The secondary fan removal is a popular mod due to their potential to shatter and stick a fin into the engine block. Usually people install a lower threshold thermostat and it's enough to counteract the added heat, though maybe that didn't happen on this one. A full cooling refresh every 10 years or so on these is definitely recommended.

[RogerM]

The "hatchback" to Europeans is like like the "pick-up" to Americans.

[benjaminwinrow]

A relentless husky, who’d have guessed…
The car looks epic.

[FishFind]

I like how riches approach to fixing the car is just replace EVERYTHING!

[PatalJunior]

Fun fact, I went to their webiste looking for the headlight cleaning kit and their description is the following :
*As endorsed by Rich Rebuilds of YouTube, this high quality DIY kit can help make old yellow headlights clear again*

[wolfreicherter]

I actually really liked the couped hatchback version a lot more than the cabrio when it came out. Still do
Great to see someone working on it