M3 Touring latest
Discussion
catfood12 said:
Don't lose the faith fella. I'm now 3K miles up in mine and it's fab. This weekend it was the rugby club tour load lugger. 4 up and all our gear.
The vast majority of people have no idea what it is. To the general populace it's just a BMW estate car. It was left unmolested in a Haven caravan park all weekend, and managed to get all the kit in both ways, whilst providing effortless overtaking fun on country roads, and I had to be careful to stay out of licence compromising speeds on the motorways. All whilst being entertained by the very impressive Harmon Kardon audio system, and with a comfortably toasty warm ass on the super leather seats.
I'm well aware the 340i-X will do 90% of that. It's getting the last 10% that makes the difference.
Surprised how many there aren't on here after the months of chat..... Looking forward to another in seven weeks.
Thanks for the info mate.The vast majority of people have no idea what it is. To the general populace it's just a BMW estate car. It was left unmolested in a Haven caravan park all weekend, and managed to get all the kit in both ways, whilst providing effortless overtaking fun on country roads, and I had to be careful to stay out of licence compromising speeds on the motorways. All whilst being entertained by the very impressive Harmon Kardon audio system, and with a comfortably toasty warm ass on the super leather seats.
I'm well aware the 340i-X will do 90% of that. It's getting the last 10% that makes the difference.
Surprised how many there aren't on here after the months of chat..... Looking forward to another in seven weeks.
Looking forward to it.
Roll on W/C May 15
chimera40v8 said:
Obligatory tip run picture.
About 750 miles in to the run-in period now so have started to have a play with some of the setup options - the weather is also much better than when I picked the car up.
Comfort to sports suspension really makes a big difference to the feel on the twisty stuff. Add in sports steering and the whole car feels like it shrinks around you a bit. Very impressive in how it seems to reduce any remaining roll when you're hustling it along, but the ride doesn't get harsh or crashy. As much as the engine is the highlight so far, the ride comfort is very close behind.
Love that photo, buy a £90K car and load it with pallets. You sir, are a man after my own heart! About 750 miles in to the run-in period now so have started to have a play with some of the setup options - the weather is also much better than when I picked the car up.
Comfort to sports suspension really makes a big difference to the feel on the twisty stuff. Add in sports steering and the whole car feels like it shrinks around you a bit. Very impressive in how it seems to reduce any remaining roll when you're hustling it along, but the ride doesn't get harsh or crashy. As much as the engine is the highlight so far, the ride comfort is very close behind.
Picked mine up Friday after getting a dealer to take a deposit before it could be ordered (that was October 21 and we all knew it was coming!).
I’m incredibly lucky to have driven and owned some great cars but this has really surprised me. Don’t get me wrong I knew it would be good, I just didn’t expect it to be this good.
As a serial car changer I’m actually considering keeping this one. Never thought I would hear myself say that.
I’m incredibly lucky to have driven and owned some great cars but this has really surprised me. Don’t get me wrong I knew it would be good, I just didn’t expect it to be this good.
As a serial car changer I’m actually considering keeping this one. Never thought I would hear myself say that.
Tomanybikes said:
finmac said:
Tomanybikes said:
With 10% deposit on a £100k car it will be near £2k per month.
Two grand a month on a 3 Series - that is truly off the scale bonkers…. At least with a big monthly payment the pain is diluted.
Having said all that I am done with losing money on heavy metal - my Rangie will hopefully be the last of those type of purchases now that it is at 100,000 miles I am going to try and get another 100k out of it.
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
finmac said:
Tomanybikes said:
With 10% deposit on a £100k car it will be near £2k per month.
Two grand a month on a 3 Series - that is truly off the scale bonkers…. At least with a big monthly payment the pain is diluted.
Having said all that I am done with losing money on heavy metal - my Rangie will hopefully be the last of those type of purchases now that it is at 100,000 miles I am going to try and get another 100k out of it.
Of course you need the £100k in the first place and before any powerfully built Red Bull drinking types pipe up with “opportunity costs” this is just a simple back of fag packet non financial advice banter.
Tomanybikes said:
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
finmac said:
Tomanybikes said:
With 10% deposit on a £100k car it will be near £2k per month.
Two grand a month on a 3 Series - that is truly off the scale bonkers…. At least with a big monthly payment the pain is diluted.
Having said all that I am done with losing money on heavy metal - my Rangie will hopefully be the last of those type of purchases now that it is at 100,000 miles I am going to try and get another 100k out of it.
Of course you need the £100k in the first place and before any powerfully built Red Bull drinking types pipe up with “opportunity costs” this is just a simple back of fag packet non financial advice banter.
The thing that scares me is that I bought a 3yr old AMG E55, it was £100k new and still had some service pack on it when I got it. It had done 60.000 miles and I paid 23k for it and the trader I bought it from had a profit in the car.
I doubt the M3 will lose as much and might not do those miles but in a rocky economy…it might.
I was test riding a BMW 1000cc sports bike today, it was around 20k new, I could buy the demo for 16k but the sales guy mentioned that one customer had just come back to upgrade 6 months later and was offered 9k for his 20k bike against another new 25k+ bike. I was talking about buying a lower model as a stepping stone. I had heard him on the phone to the 9k customer too.
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
finmac said:
Tomanybikes said:
With 10% deposit on a £100k car it will be near £2k per month.
Two grand a month on a 3 Series - that is truly off the scale bonkers…. At least with a big monthly payment the pain is diluted.
Having said all that I am done with losing money on heavy metal - my Rangie will hopefully be the last of those type of purchases now that it is at 100,000 miles I am going to try and get another 100k out of it.
Of course you need the £100k in the first place and before any powerfully built Red Bull drinking types pipe up with “opportunity costs” this is just a simple back of fag packet non financial advice banter.
The thing that scares me is that I bought a 3yr old AMG E55, it was £100k new and still had some service pack on it when I got it. It had done 60.000 miles and I paid 23k for it and the trader I bought it from had a profit in the car.
I doubt the M3 will lose as much and might not do those miles but in a rocky economy…it might.
I was test riding a BMW 1000cc sports bike today, it was around 20k new, I could buy the demo for 16k but the sales guy mentioned that one customer had just come back to upgrade 6 months later and was offered 9k for his 20k bike against another new 25k+ bike. I was talking about buying a lower model as a stepping stone. I had heard him on the phone to the 9k customer too.
Tomanybikes said:
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
Caddyshack said:
Tomanybikes said:
finmac said:
Tomanybikes said:
With 10% deposit on a £100k car it will be near £2k per month.
Two grand a month on a 3 Series - that is truly off the scale bonkers…. At least with a big monthly payment the pain is diluted.
Having said all that I am done with losing money on heavy metal - my Rangie will hopefully be the last of those type of purchases now that it is at 100,000 miles I am going to try and get another 100k out of it.
Of course you need the £100k in the first place and before any powerfully built Red Bull drinking types pipe up with “opportunity costs” this is just a simple back of fag packet non financial advice banter.
The thing that scares me is that I bought a 3yr old AMG E55, it was £100k new and still had some service pack on it when I got it. It had done 60.000 miles and I paid 23k for it and the trader I bought it from had a profit in the car.
I doubt the M3 will lose as much and might not do those miles but in a rocky economy…it might.
I was test riding a BMW 1000cc sports bike today, it was around 20k new, I could buy the demo for 16k but the sales guy mentioned that one customer had just come back to upgrade 6 months later and was offered 9k for his 20k bike against another new 25k+ bike. I was talking about buying a lower model as a stepping stone. I had heard him on the phone to the 9k customer too.
Tomanybikes said:
Now that new unregistered M3 Tourings are available from BMW dealers are the overs over?
100%.Typical BMW.
Now near 40 for sale on autotrader and most with delivery mileage.
I was supposed to be getting 1 of the 3 my dealer was allocated this year; they called me last week after the dp had told me the week before they had no allocations yet offering me a customers car that's SOR.
Told them to ram that and my order.
Not because of the possibility of losing money on my order, but the way they dealer has acted.
Like every M product in the history of time, fantastic offers are coming soon on these.
What a missed opportunity.
Overs are over…
It appears quite a few order cancellations have happened but dealerships have still taken the cars rather than cancel them altogether assuming they’d be easy sells, but it appears that’s not the case.
I know JLR are doing this with any RR or RRS orders but it’s a different story in terms of demand vastly stripping supply for them.
It appears quite a few order cancellations have happened but dealerships have still taken the cars rather than cancel them altogether assuming they’d be easy sells, but it appears that’s not the case.
I know JLR are doing this with any RR or RRS orders but it’s a different story in terms of demand vastly stripping supply for them.
Bedlamater said:
Overs are over…
It appears quite a few order cancellations have happened but dealerships have still taken the cars rather than cancel them altogether assuming they’d be easy sells, but it appears that’s not the case.
I know JLR are doing this with any RR or RRS orders but it’s a different story in terms of demand vastly stripping supply for them.
Yup, no discounts still and the APR on PCP is laughable, but premium overs seem to have finished.It appears quite a few order cancellations have happened but dealerships have still taken the cars rather than cancel them altogether assuming they’d be easy sells, but it appears that’s not the case.
I know JLR are doing this with any RR or RRS orders but it’s a different story in terms of demand vastly stripping supply for them.
Gassing Station | M Power | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff