The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)

[Stick Legs]

dscam said:

Lovely looking SV8 in these colours.

Ruined by the AI-generated bks of an ‘ad’…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256457667868?mkcid=16&a...

I love the SV8.

So much more ‘Jaggy’ than the XFR.

Would really like one, but don’t need one.

[GeniusOfLove]

Stick Legs said:

I love the SV8.

So much more ‘Jaggy’ than the XFR.

Would really like one, but don’t need one.

Agreed with that. My favorite car to get the 5.0 supercharged engine is the XJ Supersport, because aside from some tiny wing badges it's indistinguishable from the 270bhp soot chucker.

That green one is a £4k private sale car though, and even then I don't think it'd sell quickly. A 125k mile XFR is £4k trade now, an SV8 would be £3k trade.

Arse is really out of the market for old smokers like this.

Edited by GeniusOfLove on Tuesday 26th March 12:29

[Leins]

McGee_22 said:

Took the E38 out today and ended up next to another V12...

The E38 is getting better looking by the day. There was a time when I much preferred the E32, but now I’m not so sure

[Output Flange]

Leins said:

The E38 is getting better looking by the day. There was a time when I much preferred the E32, but now I’m not so sure

E32 for me, was what I decided earlier when stood next to a mate’s 750i.

I’d love to restomod one. All it really needs is a more modern drivetrain and it’d be a car for everything.

[L100NYY]

Afternoon chaps.

E32 or E38 Alpina are on my bucket list.

Oh and talking Alpina….

Wibble McThudington;

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/alpina/b10/19...

[GeniusOfLove]

Output Flange said:

Leins said:

The E38 is getting better looking by the day. There was a time when I much preferred the E32, but now I’m not so sure

E32 for me, was what I decided earlier when stood next to a mate’s 750i.

I’d love to restomod one. All it really needs is a more modern drivetrain and it’d be a car for everything.

You could get a 740i with the M60 V8, which is is reasonably modernish - 280bhp and 400NM - and the ZF5 is on just the right side of OK. The M60 is probably the least fault riddled V8 engine BMW ever made too (low bar) if you didn't put st fuel in it.

I had an E32 and think it was the last 7 series that had a strong USP, it was more like a German XJ40 than the Poundland S-Class it eventually went on to become, a process that I think started with the E38 and finished with the F01.

Edited by GeniusOfLove on Tuesday 26th March 15:29

[minimoog]

GeniusOfLove said:

and the ZF5 is on just the right side of OK.

Rather you than me. Sealed-for-life my arse and unobtainium OE or proper equivalent ATF.

[andy43]

L100NYY said:

Afternoon chaps.

E32 or E38 Alpina are on my bucket list.

Oh and talking Alpina….

Wibble McThudington;

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/alpina/b10/19...

Apparently avocado bathroom suites are also back in fashion. That’s proper 70s.

[NathanChadwick]

Output Flange said:

E32 for me, was what I decided earlier when stood next to a mate’s 750i.

I’d love to restomod one. All it really needs is a more modern drivetrain and it’d be a car for everything.

I too would prefer an E32. Preferably with cloth seats, the straight six and a manual box. Or the Alpina B11 3.5. I'm properly weird like that; revving an enormous barge out is almost like naughty fun. The kind of thing that's frowned upon, but oh so good.

[Cheburator mk2]

NathanChadwick said:

I too would prefer an E32. Preferably with cloth seats, the straight six and a manual box. Or the Alpina B11 3.5. I'm properly weird like that; revving an enormous barge out is almost like naughty fun. The kind of thing that's frowned upon, but oh so good.

You know that at least in Germany, you could get the E32 with the M60B40 and a 6-spd box? Most came with LSD too... Silly money now, while 15yrs ago you could pick them up for buttons...

[ATM]

THE 850

I checked

That is the reg

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1537201

[DeejRC]

Some people would call that brave. Others would hedge with, optimistic.
I’ll go with Ribena vomit.

[Chris Stott]

That colour… and that price

[biggbn]

Cheburator mk2 said:

NathanChadwick said:

I too would prefer an E32. Preferably with cloth seats, the straight six and a manual box. Or the Alpina B11 3.5. I'm properly weird like that; revving an enormous barge out is almost like naughty fun. The kind of thing that's frowned upon, but oh so good.

You know that at least in Germany, you could get the E32 with the M60B40 and a 6-spd box? Most came with LSD too... Silly money now, while 15yrs ago you could pick them up for buttons...

I had an e32 735iL with a manual box. Proper rare bit of kit, bought for pennies when you could do such things. Electric leather front and back, huge space, hoot to drive. Sold it to one of my doormen who ran it for years.

[L100NYY]

Chris Stott said:

That colour… and that price

Katie Price you mean

[biggbn]

ATM said:

THE 850

I checked

That is the reg

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1537201

I don't like these. But. If I had to have one. Love that colour!!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Chris Stott said:

That colour… and that price

I love the colour! The price, not so much.

[andy43]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Chris Stott said:

That colour… and that price

I love the colour! The price, not so much.

If he’d advertised it as soon as the Barbie movie came out he might have stood a chance…

[Leins]

I remember 10+ years ago this car seemed to take an age to sell for what I recall was £11k:



That front end really does shout “OUT OF MY WAY COMMON FOLK!”

[ferrisbueller]

8-Series prices have been ascending rapidly, but I'm not sure about that rapidly. That's going to be a museum piece.

That and the Alpina are two stark reminders of just how far astray BMW's styling has gone.