There’s no shortage of variety with used BMWs. But the bargains? That’s a trickier path to tread – let CAR be your guide

The sky is overcast, and being somewhere on a single track road near the bottom of the Lake District’s Hardknott Pass at 11pm, that dark is reliably inky, unbothered by even the barest lumen of ambien

ASKING £9995 PRICE ENGINE 4146cc/V8/OHC POWER 218bhp@5200rpm TORQUE ...

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Year of manufacture 2002 Recorded mileage 18,000 Asking price £275,000 Vendor The Classic Motor Hub, Gloucestershire; 01242 384092; classicmotorhub.com WHEN IT WAS NEW Price £86,000 Max power 381bhp M

Year of manufacture 1978 Recorded mileage 47,150 Asking price £POA Vendor Michael Wise Cars, Christchurch, Dorset; 07836 622234; michaelwisecars.co.uk WHEN IT WAS NEW Price n/a Max power 290bhp Max to