RE: BMW 440i (F32) | Spotted

[Earthdweller]

MitchT said:

Couple of approved used Tanzanite Blue ones currently for sale with 11,000 miles and 12,540 miles. There was a Snapper Rocks Blue one with 8,500 miles for sale in January which I would have bought if it hadn't sold within a week when I was under doctor's orders not to drive for two weeks after an operation. I always wonder how people manage to do so few miles in a car that's so well suited to massive trips.

https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404178758488...
https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404168707769...

London based cars maybe?

Spent most of their lives parked either in the street or underground car parks

[rawenghey]

I had one of these, but with the ZF 8 speed auto for about 18 months and it was a good car. It wasn't an exciting car to be honest, but as a good looking, good driving, do it all car it was almost flawless. The F32 is one of the most visually appealing designs BMW have knocked out in years and the interior was a decent place to sit.

The B58 isn't a fireworks engine, but it's almost perfect as a daily driver. It would burble around at 1500rpm all day long, but if you opened it up it sounded really good and was a lot faster than most people realised. It would show up plenty of more overtly sporty machines - hot hatches wouldn't get near it on an open road. And to top it off it returned almost unbelievable economy figures. 40mpg all day long on a cruise and once on a rain soaked M4 motorway, and thus relegated to about 60mph, I averaged 47mpg. Insane. It made the diesels irrelevant.

I only chopped it in as I wanted a full on sports car, but for 20 grand it's a st load of car.

[MarkJS]

MitchT said:

Couple of approved used Tanzanite Blue ones currently for sale with 11,000 miles and 12,540 miles. There was a Snapper Rocks Blue one with 8,500 miles for sale in January which I would have bought if it hadn't sold within a week when I was under doctor's orders not to drive for two weeks after an operation. I always wonder how people manage to do so few miles in a car that's so well suited to massive trips.

https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404178758488...
https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404168707769...

If I had to choose, it would be the second one. Black Dakota is like elephant hide and 704M’s that aren’t bi-colour look weird to my eyes – although they could have just been refurbed and powder coated/painted which is even worse.

[rottenegg]

rawenghey said:

I had one of these, but with the ZF 8 speed auto for about 18 months and it was a good car. It wasn't an exciting car to be honest, but as a good looking, good driving, do it all car it was almost flawless. The F32 is one of the most visually appealing designs BMW have knocked out in years and the interior was a decent place to sit.

Yeah that's a fair assessment. Imo, the F3x platform is the Golf GTI of the saloon world. Yes there are more thrilling and sharper options out there, but it does everything competently enough to please the majority.

And it still has physical buttons for the HVAC and radio. Get em' whilst they last folks!

[cerb4.5lee]

MarkJS said:

MitchT said:

Couple of approved used Tanzanite Blue ones currently for sale with 11,000 miles and 12,540 miles. There was a Snapper Rocks Blue one with 8,500 miles for sale in January which I would have bought if it hadn't sold within a week when I was under doctor's orders not to drive for two weeks after an operation. I always wonder how people manage to do so few miles in a car that's so well suited to massive trips.

https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404178758488...
https://usedcars.bmw.co.uk/vehicle/202404168707769...

If I had to choose, it would be the second one. Black Dakota is like elephant hide and 704M’s that aren’t bi-colour look weird to my eyes – although they could have just been refurbed and powder coated/painted which is even worse.

I really like the second one with the white leather and the digital dials as well.

[MitchT]

I'd be all over that second one if the lower dashboard was trimmed to match the door cards. To me it always looks like they cheaped-out when they didn't bother speccing the lower dashboard to match. There's a good YouTube video from a dealer in the US of one with the matching dashboard. Massive improvement!

https://youtu.be/a54RXv8jZ90?si=O9sKbWds8LMqy78w&a...

[MarkJS]

MitchT said:

I'd be all over that second one if the lower dashboard was trimmed to match the door cards. To me it always looks like they cheaped-out when they didn't bother speccing the lower dashboard to match. There's a good YouTube video from a dealer in the US of one with the matching dashboard. Massive improvement!

https://youtu.be/a54RXv8jZ90?si=O9sKbWds8LMqy78w&a...

I’ve never seen a UK car with a dashboard in Opal White without the extended leather option which is what’s shown above. But, you do see Oyster leather with the same coloured plastic on the dashboard to match quite frequently which is minging IMO.

I’m happy without the colour on the dash as the leather itself really lifts the interior and the Merino is lovely (again IMO).

[HazzaT]

rottenegg said:

Yeah that's a fair assessment. Imo, the F3x platform is the Golf GTI of the saloon world. Yes there are more thrilling and sharper options out there, but it does everything competently enough to please the majority.

And it still has physical buttons for the HVAC and radio. Get em' whilst they last folks!

The steering and "loose" chassis let the F30 down for me, the standard damping is really bad which only compounds the lack of stiffness. It's soft but simultaneously really crashy, and there's very little front end grip so it's quite understeery

[hungry_hog]

I like the F30 and F32 (I owned a 335 touring), but the thing that let's them down a bit IMO is the Dakota leather. Very plasticy feeling to me.

When I look on Auto trader Merino leather for these cars is very rare whereas on M3/M4 it's standard

Let's down the interior for what was a 45k car when new

[MikeHo]

pb8g09 said:

Neighbour has one of these, it looks great. Much more subtle than the M4 but similar on-road performance. Love the interior colour too.

I’ve had both and on-road performance is definitely not similar!

The one in the pictures looks barely used … the left tailpipe is still shiny!