[KevinC]

About 10 years ago, BMW & MBZ were in a tight race for the sales crown for USA. BMW came up with a clever tactic - they got dealerships to buy these poverty-spec 320i's and put them into their loaner fleet. Each one counted as a sale. They wound up eeking out the title that year over Mercedes. My local dealership had literally about 30 of them in their loaner fleet - you could easily get a loaner any time of the day, with a bunch of them still available. After a year or so, they'd go to the used car lot, CPO'd, an easy sale to the badge seeker who couldn't afford a proper new BMW.

I stand by my earlier recommendation. Let the thing disappear. I wouldn't invest 1c into getting this turkey back on the road.