There's a 1 year old one with 11k miles at my local dealership. Ultimate & Carbon packs with extended leather. Yours for a very reasonable £78500. I mean, the world has gone mad.Too right! I paid exactly £39,999 for my new M3 in 2003 .... latest model with the extras boxes ticked.
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I know they're really popular in NZ and Aus. Most of the videos I watch on them are either in Japan, NZ or Aus.
How else are they supposed to pay for those enormous glass cathedrals that all dealerships have become.
You can't drive round the M60 without passing monument after monument, the church of Mercedes and BMW and Mini and Jaguar.
Lucky all our salaries have doubled in the last ten years right.
To be fair £40k 20 years ago is at least £60 now, probably more given recent events.
Also, think about the added technology and safety in a modern M3 compared to an E46, along with increased labour, marketing, production and R&D costs.
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It's good but I can tell you for a fact it isn't. A good friend has a concourse red Mak that's brand new. There's always a better car!
Was a great day out yesterday.
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What model are your alloys? I know they are Rays Engineering but not the model. They look so good.
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They're OG TE37s, 17x9 22. They came off an R32 GTR originally
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Don't you get tramlining with 9J?
What are they running 255's? I thought 235's 8J's was fat for my GT-Four!
What are they running 255's? I thought 235's 8J's was fat for my GT-Four!
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That’s a big drive there, if they all fit why not 
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That is a long wait for parts ! Wasn't the original issue water in the rear taking out a few control modules ? Did you manage to get that covered under the extended warranty ? I'd guess they'd advise they don't cover seals/water ingress and reject it.
Essentially, no, they shunned the warranty request, even though BMW America recognise the problem as a design flaw and have defect codes to place repair work against. https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10147023-9999.pdf
I did manage to get some goodwill out of them to reduce my costs (I paid for parts, not labor), but it was still a sizable bill once you factor in the service it also required, the two rear tyres and various other bits I had sorted whilst it was in.
On the plus side, it's currently mint, so there's that.
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Lots and lots of driving done this weekend,
More Mclarens viewed but none right for me, epic driving roads though around Peak and Lake districts this weekend:
Past 26,000 miles now in the 458, still love it!
All British car drive out today around the Lake District so of course the Lotus was perfect:
Cracking fun!
More Mclarens viewed but none right for me, epic driving roads though around Peak and Lake districts this weekend:
Past 26,000 miles now in the 458, still love it!
All British car drive out today around the Lake District so of course the Lotus was perfect:
Cracking fun!
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Lotus is the best looking car there, but the campervan is a close second 
The lotus suits Orange so damn well, its probably the only car id have in orange
The lotus suits Orange so damn well, its probably the only car id have in orange
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Put two of them in the garage then...
If only the garage wasn’t almost entirely full currently. The “joys” of inheriting a fully furnished house, most of our old house contents are currently in there. Once we’ve redecorated and emptied the garage, maybe, but even then, two would be a VERY tight fit, the length is also not huge, we used to keep an R53 mini in there back when they were new.