I love it, manual 540i's are like hens teeth, very, very rare and this is me speaking from trying to find one 12 years ago, 540i's were rare anyway, manual ones though ...I'd just laugh in all honesty if someone said they wanted one now and say good luck with that, now they will be all the rarer I'm sure. I bought a 540i Sport automatic in the end, it had some issues tbh but was mostly a nice car, awsome engine. I still love the E39's ...tbh I totally lost interest in newer cars after about 2015 or so, now I very much prefer older cars, the same cars we used to talk about and lust after on this forum 15-20 years ago, this was the era of peak car in my humble opinion and you sir are doing it right I would say
I do not have mine anymore fyi, I sold it in 2012 iirc, because I was starting to find myself in the sunk cost fallacy with it.
...are all the pixels in your dash working by chance ?
I haven't posted a car picture myself in ...I dunno, since 2015 probably, I think the Octavia vRS was the last car I showed here, I'll see if I can't get a half decent one again, seems like time.