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another comical spelling mistake. It's actually called The Swinger. why? because it's the love-child resulting from the swingers party that was furtively attended by a Commodore, Maserati, Audi, Dodge, Jaguar, Ford, Mazda, and a Kia!

A bit of an update since I've been using it a bit over the holidays. 1. It makes an excellent tow vehicle (towed a car trailer up to Auckland) 2. It pulls out sumps alright (Kinda doing burnouts in your driveway is a great way to meet all the neighbors it turns out) 3. It could do with an LSD (see marks left in second video) 4. It burns a lot of oil I ended up replacing the CCV unit and hose with new ones, however hasn't affected the oil smoke that comes out the back. So yep, my ill maintained engine isn't healthy, and uses oil. Who would have thought. Plan is to just leave it until it finally dies, and then put in another. Ended up going up to Auckland yesterday for a bit of a parts mission, grabbed an Mtech 2 kit from Ray, and also AC heater core, loom and pipes from an E30, and a compressor and lines from an M50. The E30 touring is definitely the most practical E30, as it can fit all of it's parts individually inside itself with ease. Waiting for summer to wrap up, and then start the long process of adding AC to the car.

Awesome car! When you sell though, good luck living in an e39 M5

Post E46, I'm not really into any of the new BMWs. Actually almost any new cars from the main makers.. I just like older cars now

Well I was looking at adding a little power to a M3 E46 2002 that belongs to my partner, and was informed by a mechanic in Penrose that he had done supercharging before for BMW's. He recommended the most common was ESS Tuning in the states. We agreed to bring in the kit http://esstuning.com/e46-m3-vt2-575-supercharger-system-gen-3/ and install it and tune it. It was algood but ran into issues with belt slipping and car shutting off. Back and forth , back and forth.. I gave up on mechanic for going around in circles of months, then tried Ray@ HELLBM who then checked hardware side, awesome guy and said all was sweet, and maybe go back to ESS for software revise from ESS. Ess stated that NO, we just needed to leave it and let the car learn all adaptions again since it was reset. So we did, reset all adaptions, and it kept shutting off for some reason at random times.. .. we didn't know what to do... weeks went by as the car sat in storage.... I went back to ESS again, and the same response. ESS told me that the car needs to relearn the driving again hence why it's shutting off could be days, weeks..... and I need to keep driving it in order for it to relearn again.... They assured me that they had done thousands of supercharged BMWs thoughout the world, so my partner kept driving it around and for a couple of weeks... It FINALLY came to, and ESS was right. The car just came right and it hasn't shut off since... wow... I never thought we would get over this issue.... THANKS ESS TUNING!..... Thanks also to HELLBM Ray... BUT Bottom line is that you must choose a mechanic that specializes in supercharging cars because had I known that not many people specialize in Supercharging BMWs I may have not gone down this track... I've now spent in excess of 20k on the supercharging and the tuning alone... to this day I still don't believe the full potential has been unleashed from this supercharged beast.. I'm now in contact with HYDE and he's been really super helpful in assisting me to attain cert for PSS10 Blistein Coilovers and Supercharger on the car, which the original mechanic said he would do, but had not!... grrrrrrr.....

Actually that thread is about the best "looking" BMW's so I think that changes things up altogether. IMHO almost nothing modern would be on the best "looking" list.

The Isetta is a cool car. Much better than all the 6 cylinder cars BMW built. The new Active Tourer is a really cool car too. *ducks*

Cheers mate, I'll take a look when I have time.

The one in my car (albeit a B30) that was filthy was the inlet cam sensor. The others were spotless, but this one was packed with gunk. I think the B32 has the cam sensor in the same place, and it is possible to get the sensor out without dismantling anything. I used a short allen key and lots of wiggling to get it out.

Is the McLaren F1 a contender for this list?

Up for sale is a good condition set of BBS Style 5's Comes with near new 205/40 Toyo tyres Genuine BMW BBS wheel - 2 piece $2500ono PM or 02102758141

Hey Dave do u still need a new OBC? I found one in my box of random stuff (see my for sale post). If u wana come round try it sometime and see how the pixels are happy for you to take it! - free Im just not sure if the pixel condition is any better but worth a shot I guess