A few years back, early in the last downturn, before prices started lifting you could pick up a wrapped in cotton wool 840 Sport with around 60k miles and fsh for about £11-13k in the UK and VRT wasn't outrageous. As many will know, John Roche in Gort does all of my car fettling and sometimes I would hang around the workshop chatting while he was doing a quick job. Talk often turns to "What would you think if I got...". One of those conversations was about such an e31. John is a down to earth man and I fully expected an expletive laden answer that could be summarized as "catch yourself on". He surprised me by reckoning that it wouldn't be the worst thing I could do, if bought carefully. He worked on plenty of them in the UK dealer network back in the day and reckoned that, although complex, they were a fairly solid choice. Make of that as you will.