My new F30 320d Sport

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He's right - the E90 is hardly a premium looking car, especially so in SE trim. It looks cheap (or rather, looks cheaper than it ought to).
 
Not a fan of the E9x platform, even though I have an E92 M3.

The non-Ms look bland I think. The new shape is an improvement in my opinion.
 
Kenai said:
He's right - the E90 is hardly a premium looking car, especially so in SE trim. It looks cheap (or rather, looks cheaper than it ought to).
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Nobody has them in SE trim anyway they are almost all Sport. They look really good in sport trim with good wheels too.
This on the other hand, I could easily be fooled into thinking it's an SE, it doesn't have deep sporty looking skirts and bumpers, doesn't have good looking wheels, doesn't have a sporty looking low-slung appearance.

It's a matter of opinion, but I'm going to have to disagree on this one.
 
Pug said:
Nope too costly an upgrade tbh, as with Xenons. Budgeted myself £1000 for upgrades, I'd have gone for 19s over nav tbh, I mostly know where I'm headed and plenty of options on my phone when I get lost.
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You know, this was my reasoning for giving my TomTom to my dad. Except the first time I needed to find my way was to locate a small town called Daviot in Aberdeenshire. After getting lost, I pulled out iPhone, opened Maps and was greeted with "Searching..." in the top left corner. Not a good start!

I like the F30 though, the front grew on me once I saw it in the flesh. Hopefully the 328i will depreciate like a stone and I'll pick one up in 2-3 years for half price...

The red stripe in the dash makes me think of this though...
 
Clarkey said:
Nobody has them in SE trim anyway they are almost all Sport. They look really good in sport trim with good wheels too.
This on the other hand, I could easily be fooled into thinking it's an SE, it doesn't have deep sporty looking skirts and bumpers, doesn't have good looking wheels, doesn't have a sporty looking low-slung appearance.

It's a matter of opinion, but I'm going to have to disagree on this one.
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This new model doesnt have the M-sport variant I believe, the sport trim as it stands is just a soft nomenclature for the Company car brigade, the proper model is yet to come.
 
Think I'll be waiting for the M Sport in a couple of months, possibly same engine though :)

Don't really blame you for no nav and xenons, as said for a company car it's probably not worth it.
 
Disco Boy said:
Recession white. Check.
Diesel. Check.
Big wheels. Check.
No leather. Check.
Lacking the best options. Check.

GJ.
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Come on, the car does look good in white, well I like it. :)

As for the rest, it's a company car and everything that you add to it gets taxed, so if this really is a tool required for the job then I'd personally be loathed to start adding and increasing my tax liability. It's exactly for this reason that I decided to opt out of the company car scheme at my work but for me the company car is a perk rather than a need so the decision to opt out for me was no brainer.
 
IAmATeaf said:
12Gb? Wonder how many rubbish tip sites in Africa they had to raid to get that? Or is it a 12Gb flash stick?
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Exactly, imagine rocking up to the Home Cinema forum and posting about a £2k media system consisting of a 12GB HD, a 10.2" screen and some software packages.
You'd be laughed off the forum :D

Yet, because it's in a car we should accept such ridiculous pricing :mad:
 
EndlessSky said:
I've spec'd the H&K speaker upgrade, Visibility pack, sports seats, sports steering wheel and aluminium trim. I've started with the SE spec, so no red lines for me :)
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Why didn't you go for the Sport model in the first place?

The price difference between an SE and Sport model is £1k. The sport options you've added to your SE come to £800 and you also wont get rear parking sensors, dual-zone climate control, an automatically dimming rear-view mirror, rain sensors and automatic headlight activation which come as standard on the Sport model.
 
SDK^ said:
Exactly, imagine rocking up to the Home Cinema forum and posting about a £2k media system consisting of a 12GB HD, a 10.2" screen and some software packages.
You'd be laughed off the forum :D

Yet, because it's in a car we should accept such ridiculous pricing :mad:
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You're not going to have a 2TB drive and a 50" plasma in a car though are you.
 
It's the ED version, which is based on the SE spec but does have all of the things you listed. I think it's the ES spec which doesn't have the items you list?

I'd have had the sport but stupid tax rules and all that...
 
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panthro said:
You're not going to have a 2TB drive and a 50" plasma in a car though are you.
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LOL :)
The price doesn't have to be so high though does it ;)

The screen is already in the car, yet the business Nav is £1.5k, just for some software which isn't that good anyway.
 
EndlessSky said:
It's the ED version, which is based on the SE spec but does have all of the things you listed. I think it's the ES spec which doesn't have the items you list?

I'd have had the sport but stupid tax rules and all that...
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Are you limited by how many CO2s it pushes out that strictly? :(
 
Believe it or not it makes enough of a difference to the monthly lease price as well as the tax for the Sport to be quite a bit more expensive. The tax isn't a huge amount more but our lease company, even though the list prices aren't hugely different, charge ~ £100 a month more for the sport. Annoying but not the end of the world, as it's still a bloody good car.
 
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