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Hey all, just signed up! Finally convinced myself that I "need" a BMW M2. Look forward to learning and sharing! Also - when is the next meetup in Auckland?

The same way i did when i had a BMW, lots of degreaser

BMW had a hydrogen powered 7 series way back in 2000/1 when I was in Munich, it's quite amazing how little progress seems to have been made since then.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a.aspx?id=1501739773 1998 264KMs $5K no reserve Like this a lot

Used but in good condition. Has usual scratches and marks you get when these are used. Comes with one brand new Genuine gruppe M airfilter ($380 to buy) and one used but cleaned filter. These are over $3000 brand new, asking half price of a new one with one new filter! $1500

Nice ride. bump up!!!

That silver one looks like a good buy. Looks to.have the full bbs kit. And last owner for 20 years!! If it's been kept inside( it looks like it has) then it should be a good solid example. They done co.e up like that very often!!

I reckon it would be cool to buy 20m and vandalize your mates cars with it

Meh oil companies will work it out when it's viable for them. I bet it's no more difficult than making an oil platform, taking it 50km off the coast, sucking oil deep off the ocean floor, getting a huge oil tanker to take it back to a refinery for processing, then trucks or more tankers to transport it. They could just build their own small nuclear reactors for endless amounts of electricity to perform the procedures to extract hydrogen and bottle it. If they can produce it, distribute it and sell it when it's more cost effective than oil they will do it. Do you really think they will sit back and watch less sales of oil take place while consumers plug in their battery cars to the electrical grid. Somehow I doubt that. They would rather them buy hydrogen! Hydrogen is the only model that compares to diesel or petrol, giving constant output when being used (no performance or power drop like in battery cars as the battery goes lower and lower) and it would take a few minutes to fill up the gas tank, just like what people are used to today. The plug in and charge method is only going to suit a tiny tiny fraction of vehicle users out there, especially when rapid charge times are still at least 30 minutes and gives limited range.

From BOC gas, in large bottles, easy. Eventually, wait for gas stations to sell it like LPG. Done!

not quite yet , only fit cabby , but i do have some coupe ones arftermarket type

After 7 months in isolation, I decided to get the old girl out and stretch her legs. Did a round trip from Auckland to Thames and back, over nighting at Orere Thanks to @M M for helping to get her road worthy again

they are about $3 for 10m or so on Wish.com hardly an expencive exercise and can take it off easy enough if ya change your mind. SOmeone elses car they can do what they want

And it's usually on a non-M, and of course a 320i :\ I love the passion for the brand this shows, but the brand also in general represents refinement and performance.

Happy to see it in such a deserving engine bay Ray!! Glad I can play Santa and give this to you for all the help over the years! Merry Christmas!!

HELLM3 with it`s XMAS present. Thanks Tom.

I love it - was looking at a 2003 2.5SE Manual but missed out on it. Kinda glad I missed out now because the 3.0si is brilliant.

Welcome Phillip, great looking Z4. We really need to have another Naki meet up

Just finished one side of the car, springs are Tein, Koni shocks and M3 arms. Pretty straight forward but torquing the rear arms at the chassi point is a pain in the arse, no room to work. Tein springs have a 595 lb/inch rate which is higher than standard Msport 460 and M3 560. I used a 9mm spacer to raise the ride height a bit as I dont like it too low. I will post up a full review when I get the font done as well.

Would mainstream media print anything to the contray? Would 'researchers' who are likely in the govt pocket come up with different results that don't tow the official line on climate change? It would be more environmentally friendly to run my current 15 year old car for another 5-7 years which returns 8.5l/100km highway than to increase/encourage consumerism and drop $40-50k on an EV for a five year cycle. Just more wealthy, white western liberals telling us what we need to do as a way of virtue signalling to feed their false moral conscience when it comes to enviro/social issues. They will happily guilt trip the majority of the population on green issues while they have no dramas shitting into clean drinking water, using excessive amounts of water (three showers/day, two laundry cycles/day, watering their garden on their high six figure - seven figure quarter acre section), daily consumption of meat and dairy (demand for intensive farming), two or more late/new vehicles per household, jet setting on holiday every 6 mth - 1 year etc. These clowns are the epitome of hypocrisy and fail to put their money where their mouth is, but expects everyone else to tow their line.