BMW M3 30 Jahre Edition
Want an M3 Competition but feel it doesn't have enough limited edition logos? Here's your car!
This car therefore marks three decades since the first E30 M3 customers received their cars. To all intents and purposes, it is an M3 Competition embellished with a few little limited edition accoutrements. Not a bad car, by any stretch, but 30 years could probably have been marked even better with a four-door GTS, in the style of the old M3 CRT. Just a thought...
All 500 of the 30 Years M3s available globally will be offered uniquely in Macao Blue, a colour that was originally a special option introduced on - you've guessed it - the E30 M3. A six-speed manual is standard with the seven-speed M DCT also available, and the performance is identical to an M3 Competition Pack.
But to prove this is a 30 Jahre Edition M3, not simply a Competition Pack M3, there are a few key distinguishing cosmetic features. See the carbon fibre interior strip wording, the illuminated door sills and the headrest embroidery (!). The outside is fairly restrained actually, the M3 apparently calming down a little now it's entered its 30s.
As mentioned there will be just 500 of these special M3s available, with 30 offered in the UK. Best be quick to get one then, and wealthy too: the 30 Jahre will cost £82,675 when it goes on sale in the summer, or £23,070 more than a standard M3 Competition. Yikes. And you thought the GTS looked a lot.
WTF!?
You also get a plaque on the dashboard with the number of your car out of the edition of 30.
WTF!?
19bhp power upgrade
0-62mph sprint drops to 4.0sec
Chassis: recalibrated springs, dampers, anti-roll bars
Updated driving modes, Active M Differential
20in M alloy wheels with 265/30 (f), 285/30 (r) tyres
Lightweight M sports seats, M-striped seatbelts
M sports exhaust, Shadow Line black gloss detailing
The engineers must weep when they see this kind of exercise
Competition Package 'seems legit'. Given the modifications and increase in performance it could be argued as good value over and above a standard M3.
This 30 Jahre Edition is £23k(!!) more than a Competition Package M3 for essentially a few trim pieces and according to this and this article, 'exclusive' Frozen Silver paint for UK cars.
Again...WTF!?
Struggling to comprehend it.
fk off BMW.
If only the BMW marketeers had paid attention to the other stories on Pistonheads.....
£82k for this would have caused a very different and much more welcome stir:
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-germancars/bmw-...
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