BMW is hard at work reminding us that it still makes its M3: hard on the rear bumper of the M3 Limited Edition 500 announced at the beginning of March comes this, the M3 Frozen Silver Edition.
Designed to help mark 40 years of BMW M GmbH, the Frozen Silver is the first BMW to feature the new matt-look paint.
That's combined with matt black alloy wheels, Dark Chrome exhaust, side gills and kidney surrounds, and Jet Black bonnet intakes. Inside, there's Black Novillo leather with contrast stitching and Palladium leather armrests and inserts. The steering wheel is covered in Alcantara, while there's more than the odd sprinkling of carbon fibre.
The 420hp V8 is unchanged, but the car - of which just 100 will be made - does get suspension lowered by 10mm, the M DCT twin-clutch transmission as standard and a revised DSC system.
All in all, BMW reckons the Frozen Silver Edition adds £9K-worth of extras for a £4k price hike - putting the car at £58,720 on the road. Interestingly, BMW is keen to point out that such limited-edition shenanigans are not down to sales of the M3 slowing up as it reaches the end of its life: UK dealers shifted 789 M3 coupes in 2011, 10 per cent up on 2010.
"All in all, BMW reckons the Frozen Silver Edition adds £9K-worth of extras for a £4k price hike - putting the car at £58,720 on the road. Interestingly, BMW is keen to point out that such limited-edition shenanigans are not down to sales of the M3 slowing up as it reaches the end of its life."
They're not desperate to sell cars by painting them in funny colours (see Porsche Cayman S) - but they ARE desperate to keep their cars in the press and that's what this is doing...
Porsche don't need to do this - they just wait for Evo to do a group test (except they recently stopped faking the pics and just saying "911 wins" didn't they??)
Can you think of a better car brand new for that money??? Look at the performance of it! A 420BHP naturally aspirated V8?!??! What more do you want from a car? And it covers all bases. Civilised enough to be used as a day to day road car, but equally at home on the track. Would keep pace with with a lot of cars that cost 30k or 40k more.
Designed to help mark 40 years of BMW M GmbH, the Frozen Silver is the first BMW to feature the new matt-look paint.
come on PH do at least a little research, that is complete bullst.
there final edition of the last M5 came in frozen grey, i know as two of my customers bought one & the M3 has been available in this colour for ages as well.
do you just copy & paste press releases these days?
come on PH do at least a little research, that is complete bullst.
there final edition of the last M5 came in frozen grey, i know as two of my customers bought one & the M3 has been available in this colour for ages as well.
do you just copy & paste press releases these days?
Porsche don't need to do this - they just wait for Evo to do a group test (except they recently stopped faking the pics and just saying "911 wins" didn't they??)
Ooh, have I missed Evo's fall from grace?
El Shafto said:
Can you think of a better car brand new for that money??? Look at the performance of it! A 420BHP naturally aspirated V8?!??! What more do you want from a car? And it covers all bases. Civilised enough to be used as a day to day road car, but equally at home on the track. Would keep pace with with a lot of cars that cost 30k or 40k more.
A proper American V8 in it. I'm always left underwhelmed by the sound of these and the V8 Mercs, strangely enough I always thought the older straight 6 M3's sounded quite nice.
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