E46 M3 Silverstone v Standard Car

[B.J.W]

hi, I’m in the market for an E46 M3 manual - should have pushed the button years ago, but I had other itches to scratch. Values for good, full history cars with 70-80,000 miles appear to be around the £14,000 Mark. I’ve seen a Silverstone edition at a dealer for £15,999. It’s a stunning looking car, and I like the rarity factor with the fact that only 50 were built (half of which were manuals).

I’m interested in general opinion, is the consensus that they are worth a premium over and above an E46 M3? The car is to be enjoyed as a weekender, but as a long term purchase I do have an eye to longer term value increase as well. I guess a special edition (albeit trim and paint) will be worth a little bit more than an equivalent standard car.....

[Smuler]

The irony is that for prices to really increase, good examples need to be really scarce at which point you may well find that all colours have only a few good examples remaining and thus having an individual colour which would have stood out "from the crowd" some years ago is actually far less meaningful.

it's a nice colour , I hope you get it and it brings you many happy weekend

[B.J.W]

Smuler said:

The irony is that for prices to really increase, good examples need to be really scarce at which point you may well find that all colours have only a few good examples remaining and thus having an individual colour which would have stood out "from the crowd" some years ago is actually far less meaningful.

it's a nice colour , I hope you get it and it brings you many happy weekend

I’m still looking around at the moment - there are some nice cars around and my preferred is dark grey or black with red interior. I’ve seen the Silverstone car and I was interested in opinions from M3 owners. Thanks for yours

[Smuler]

My top two choices too , went for my fave , Carbon Black / Imola Red

Obviously , it's dictated by age of car but re: grey I had a slight preference for the steel grey over silver grey.

[Relli]

I'll PM you... not sure what I'm really allowed to get away with/say on here.

Nothing related to the Silverstone edition car though.

[Webdunk]

It was a dealer network special edition IIRC; not a BMW or BMW UK one. i.e. One of the bigger dealer networks specced up a set of cars and called it an 'edition'. There is therefore no inherent extra value IMHO.

[B.J.W]

I’ve made a purchase - call it fate....... I’ll post details up once the car is in my possession.

[Type R Tom]

Mine has a couple of issues so will never be worth loads but I've got a manual cab with extended champagne leather and light wood trim in midnight blue. I'm yet to see another on sale.

[Ahbefive]

It's not an actual special edition. Just a car specced up by a dealer. No additional value. Buy on condition.

[RammyMP]

Chap I work with has a Silverstone Edition, he reckons it's gone up in value by £2k in the past year. But he would wouldn't he!

[slipstream 1985]

14k for 70-80k miles? I had mine for sale at 12.5 and it didnt sell. Now gonna keep it another year.