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      02-05-2025, 08:23 PM   #1
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27,000 mile annual mileage - drive E90 M3 or different strategy?

Hi, I'm on the verge of possibly relocating to Florida and taking on a project that will require me to travel and incur 27,000 miles annually on my car.

I'm bringing my daily E90 M3 6MT as well as my weekenders, Z4M Roadster and 911 Carrera 4S (991.1) 7MT.

My original plan was to just suck it up and drive the E90 until the engine blows (300,000+ miles?), and either replace the engine or the car itself. It currently has 73,160 miles on it.

Lately also wondering if there's a business case to get a used EV on a cheap monthly finance, like an Hyundai Ioniq 6 and pay FPL's $38 a month free charger install, free overnight charging and spare the E90 the mileage. I would have to pay extra on insurance for it too of course, but the monthly savings in fuel would be significant by my quick math.

I'm going to dive deeper into the math but I thought I'd talk to my fellow Bimmerposters, and beyond the E9x dedicated M3 forum, to see what they do. I know a lot of people look at the E9x as a weekender, and I appreciate that, but right now for better or worse its been my daily. I love driving it, its a fantastic all around car, serves its purpose as the ultimate family sedan that's also a manual sports car. I haven't been shy about putting miles on it up to now, but this is a lot of miles. Still, its meant to be driven (though fuel, oil and tire costs are certainly going to be not much fun).

Other ideas were to buy some cheap $10k commuter fuel sippers and continually buy and resell at the same price or similar if possible jumping from car to car. What would you guys do?
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