I tend to do my deepest dives into a particular car by owning it. I can recite chapter and verse on Porsche, Corvette, Sunbeam Tiger, and many others, but my personal experience with BMW has been through owning just a single one: a six-speed 1997 540i I had about 15 years ago.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/events/5-reasons-why-bmw-ownership-is-irresistible/