Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Cheers. The issue over here is that there's nothing old. I have no idea what they do with them and the bloke at the BMW dealership almost collapsed when I told him what I had and that I wanted an E39 M5.

So I thought fuck it, buy a newer Golf that the missus can drive easily and will still put a smile on my chevy chase.

Collapsed in a good or bad way?

If it's got to be newer don't hot hatch it, no manual e46s? Surely they've got cheap CSLs out there?