The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)
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L100NYY said:
Damn, that looks the part, but would it be rude of me to suggest that it really doesn’t need the boot spoiler?
The tart in me likes the spoiler. Having said that, a trader chum has an early 3.4 996 in silver with the terracotta coloured leather (whatever that's called on Pork speak?) that is both slim hipped and without any spoiler-age and I'm rather taken by it. I'd have to flog the B10 though.......
Bloke in a 3 door Cosworth went past me 6/7 weeks ago with salt all over the road and wafting up as he went past me......
Bloke in a 3 door Cosworth went past me 6/7 weeks ago with salt all over the road and wafting up as he went past me......
stickylabels said:
The tart in me likes the spoiler. Having said that, a trader chum has an early 3.4 996 in silver with the terracotta coloured leather (whatever that's called on Pork speak?) that is both slim hipped and without any spoiler-age and I'm rather taken by it. I'd have to flog the B10 though.......
Bloke in a 3 door Cosworth went past me 6/7 weeks ago with salt all over the road and wafting up as he went past me..
WibbleBloke in a 3 door Cosworth went past me 6/7 weeks ago with salt all over the road and wafting up as he went past me..
There's an accident repair place near me just outside Wolverhampton that's always got 4 classic fast Fords in the "showroom", usually an XR2, an Escort RS Turbo, an original RS2000 and usually an RS500 as well.
No idea if they're for sale or if he just likes displaying them - always worth the detour to drive past though.
No idea if they're for sale or if he just likes displaying them - always worth the detour to drive past though.
L100NYY said:
Oh my goodness. Wow. Just WOW. That is maybe my perfect car!! L100NYY said:
Perfection, love that.MightyBadger said:
L100NYY said:
Perfection, love that.2 incomings last week.
X5 4.8is - 77k miles, crazy spec. What a great car this is - bonkers engine and exhaust note, goes like stink, unicorn spec (electric heated rear seats, pano roof, carplay, slide out boot, sun blinds, factory tow bar), everything works, no smoke, £6,800
E61 550i Sport manual - 142k miles, totally original, quieter, more refined, chassis and steering a real step up and the box makes the car. You will see 30 mpg on a run if you stick to the speed limits but why would you £8,100
What I wasn't expecting was that my wife and kids absolutely love the X5, so the 550i will probably go. But as I now have plenty of storage, no hurry on that
X5 4.8is - 77k miles, crazy spec. What a great car this is - bonkers engine and exhaust note, goes like stink, unicorn spec (electric heated rear seats, pano roof, carplay, slide out boot, sun blinds, factory tow bar), everything works, no smoke, £6,800
E61 550i Sport manual - 142k miles, totally original, quieter, more refined, chassis and steering a real step up and the box makes the car. You will see 30 mpg on a run if you stick to the speed limits but why would you £8,100
What I wasn't expecting was that my wife and kids absolutely love the X5, so the 550i will probably go. But as I now have plenty of storage, no hurry on that
L100NYY said:
Loving the X5 chap, is that ‘normal’ money for a 4.8?
Nope. That car, with a trader has a price tag of £12k + all day long. The 4.8iS has quite a cult following, being the first ///M in the X5 lineage - whether that's a good thing overall is a different story. But ///M really went to town on it and made a car, which has no right to be so much fun, while also being a SUV.
It really is a unicorn specification too. I am a 4.8iS beard, having owned one myself for 4yrs in the past... This car, literally is brochure photoshoot spec - it has options that you would only see in print normally, like electric rear seats, or DSP, sun protection glass all round etc... I think, new it would have been E60 M5 money with the options paid for...
Best of all - ULEZ exempt and being 55 reg, it goes in the £300 odd tax band, rather than in the stupid £700 that post 2006 cars get clobbered with...
andy43 said:
Finding cars specced like that is really cool. Must have been a BMW press car or dealer principals/‘demo’ back when it was new. Literally no actual buyer would go right through the options list like that 
You are right. Every now and then though, you stumble across something like our current X5 - a Chelsea based heart surgeon of Middle Eastern descent splurged £39k on options... Both my local BMW dealers admitted that they have never seen a car like it... The only option missing from the list is the third row seating... It is the most unreliable car that we have ever owned, despite the low mileage and umpteen BMW services, both under the original owner and me, and yet I cannot bring myself to sell it - it's like Trigger's broom at 88k miles now - new engine, new transfer box, new suspension front and rear kind of thing 
P.S. Barchetta, being the true altruist, assured me that he had me half in mind when he bought the 4.8iS - apparently I can always borrow it, when our X5 is broken down yet again...
Speaking of going mad with the options list, I spotted a 2018 BMW 540i tourer, one owner from new and 42k miles at BCA.
Original RRP apparently £48,690 and it has £22,405 of options. CAP clean is £21,550, it's quite an appealing though to buy it for less than someone paid for the options 6 years ago.
Interior is dogmess brown too
A lot of the time German cars will have £3k of options for stuff that really should have been standard.
Very nice car, £25k CAP retail but with those options I'd not be surprised to see it up for (and fetch) £35k once it gets retailed.
Original RRP apparently £48,690 and it has £22,405 of options. CAP clean is £21,550, it's quite an appealing though to buy it for less than someone paid for the options 6 years ago.
Interior is dogmess brown too
A lot of the time German cars will have £3k of options for stuff that really should have been standard.
Very nice car, £25k CAP retail but with those options I'd not be surprised to see it up for (and fetch) £35k once it gets retailed.
barchetta_boy said:
That is amazing! Massage seats, LEDs, literally everything you could want... what a car for £22k
I love a fully kitted out car, Jaguar were good in 2008 - 2012 with the X351 XJ and 1st gen XF because the Portfolio came with basically everything, but from 2012 onwards they started taking stuff out and by the time the 2nd gen XF came out they were as bad as the Germans and a lot of cars were really crap spec.It's very tedious trying to find a BMW or Mercedes that's not in crap base spec, or you see £5k of options and get interested and find out it's £3k on some stupid wheels and £2k on a "special" shade of grey but it's still got vinyl manually adjusted seats.
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