Jesus, are these really worth this much?

[edo]

...or more comedy pricing from Hexagon?

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2012...



1990 BMW M3 Convertible 2.3 2dr

2 Doors, Manual, Saloon, Petrol, 79,500 miles, Macao Blue, Special Upholstery, GB Specification, Graduated Tinted Screen, Leather Upholstery, Metallic Paint, Metallic paint. £34,995

[DanDC5]

Can't imagine they're far away if they're aren't work £35k, certainly aren't many of them.

[Nedzilla]

A cup of coffee from Hexagon will set you back around £10k!!

[Carlton Banks]

I sold mine for £9k in 2005.

Should have bloody kept it!

[XJ40]

Someone somewhere has decided that E30 M3's should be megabucks, asking prices seem to have jumped up of late. A classic eighties model for sure but a four pot car like that isn't worth supercar money for me. There must be at least some demand though.

[HarryW]

I thought the 6 pot 325 M-Sport (proper ones not lookey likey) was the pick of and the rarest of the E30 rag tops.

[J4CKO]

"Worth" that much, or cost that much, two different things, E30 M3's have come of age having been just an old BMW for a long time, just seems a tad bizzarre that they go for that much relative to the E36 M3, you can get a decent E36 M3 cab for five grand, a minter for eight, is this really worth seven times as much ?

Must be relative rarity of the E30, and not many of them were cabriolets but then again all the buzz around them is the coupe anyway.

[rohrl]

They're rare but they're also neither fish nor fowl.

The E30 M3's USP is that as a homologation special it's a real driver's car. This is heavier and lots floppier and just a poser's car really.

[E30M3SE]

It's not woth that with those miles, £25K max imo, that's if it's rot free,

[aka_kerrly]

Wiki reckons that only 786 were made worldwide so not exactly loads to choose from.

[edo]

4star car £10k cheaper

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3923463.htm

[edo]

Munich Legends £45k! (only 21k miles mind)

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3185472.htm

[edo]

£59k!

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3765611.htm

"we can take our time to make sure we find a suitable home for this truly stunning example."

you'll need it.

[kambites]

They're worth whatever someone will pay for them and I suppose there's a fair few rich BMW fans out there.

[Frances The Mute]

E30 M3 values have consistently been talked up for a good few years now.

Arguably, rarer examples such as the sport evo, Cecotto etc will always tend to demand a premium, but the whole thing has blown wildly out of proportion in my view.

The prices being asked are specualtive and normally apply to low mileage/high provenance examples that only see car collections - which shows by the cars standing around for an age at the 'dealers'.
Usable examples have still seen a sizeable price increase, but are certainly more realistic in terms of what the prices should be as the difference between both examples is hugely disproportionate.

Nostalgia is big business (apparently) hence the nonsensical ticket prices.

[Rarefied Brains]

What is criminal is how little something like the 944S2 is worth in comparison

[Dog Star]

edo said:

Munich Legends £45k! (only 21k miles mind)

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3185472.htm

The thing is that even though it's a mint car, with the best will in the world that looks like 7 - 8K worth of car.

[s m]

Rarefied Brains said:

What is criminal is how little something like the 944S2 is worth in comparison

Just enjoy the fact you can get a lovely handling car for a tenth of the price - simple supply and demand

[R12HCO]

I really do not understand the lust for e30s (or their massive price-tag).

[falkster]

Rarefied Brains said:

What is criminal is how little something like the 944S2 is worth in comparison

But how many S2s were they compared to the M3?