DaveO

Awesome car!

If you guys/girls decide on somewhere out south auckland ways let me know :-)

Lovely, tasteful mods. Nice.

An enthusiast thankfully, his family have had a few M cars. His current car was/is a E34 M5, and his old man has an E60 M5. So now they have three generations in the family haha.

Only thing about that car which tempts me is some of its exhaust work (I bet it sounds amazing at high rpm), oh and the removed top speed limiter As for all the carbon everywhere, stickers, pink wheels, japanese boot etc. - not a fan at all. I wonder if the 60 bhp difference is even really noticeable at all

Yeah it sold on Friday who picked it up. Would have been the new owner as AFAIK mine was the only Anthracite E39 M5 in NZ. PS Happy birthday old man

Awesome.

Def buy the Type III's off me.. they look great!

Hahaha, was the first question I asked him. I think he's selling it for around 15 but will ask him more about it when he picks up the E39

Finally sold the E39 M5 - new owner taking her down to Wellington this weekend. I've been driving it around all week and leaving my E60 in the garage.... it's really enjoyable selecting which M5 to use each day... always puts a smile on my face in the morning. I'll really miss the E39 M5, I understand why some people say 'it's the last real m5'. It's the kind of car you can hop in and drive without even thinking, so easy day-to-day, and yet when you want to, it can fly. I'll miss the manual shifting most of all - and simply having a clutch. I wouldn't be surprised if one day I find myself back in an E39 M5 (even if it's just a weekend car or such)... Am looking forward to having just one car again though. Have been paying $100 a month + rego/wof etc costs for the E39 just to be sitting in the garage (not to mention losing around $100 a month of bank interest not having the cash in my savings). In other news: Bought some euro plates for the E60, went for [bMW 413] with the BMW logo (413 has no relevance but was the only BMWxxx plate available). I've also decided against a mechanical warranty for now. The cost and terms/conditions, and excess, and servicing rules and contracts were a bit too overwhelming for me, so fingers crossed nothing too major goes wrong. Having one last photoshoot for the E39 on Wednesday, will show pics :-)

Thanks :-) It feels like I spend half my life at the Takanini BP, damn thirsty cars! You might spot my E60 there next time. Come say hi.

SOLD for 26.5k - a bit less than I hoped for, but am super happy to be selling it to another enthusiast (who currently drives an e34 m5) I will miss this car :'(

Definitely one of the best looking E46 estates around! Nice one

My old E39 M5 averaged over the 6 months I had it at around 14 L / 100km. So not too far off your numbers. My friend Roo, with his E34 540i, gets similar or worse at times

Yeah man I remember! Nice, I wondered if you were on here. Your car looks awesome too.

First roadtrip in the E60 last week. WOW. This thing transforms into a beast when you hit the open roads. More power than ANYTHING on the roads (pretty much), and the grip levels are out of this world. 100kph - 200kph is literally insane. Yet to do any actual top speed runs, but can cruise along with no dramas, no stress comfortably at 160+ on the way to the coromandel. This is the first car I've ever owned which goes faster than my driving allows it to. Overtaking cars is hilarious. Press the M button, drop it into 3rd gear, and hold on! Fuel economy so far for 70L tank: ($160 to fill). 1st tank: 350km 2nd tank: 370km 3rd tank: 380km 4th tank: 360km Currently at 20.4 L / 100km Disgusting really. The E39 M5 was literally 25% better, and that thing was thirsty too. It feels like, if I drive it a bit less aggressively, or am on open roads the whole time, I could easily get 420km. Will try for this sometime soon.

Overpriced, perhaps. Although, as many people have mentioned, it is quite a specific target audience market. So maybe it's not overpriced and the right buyer just hasn't shown him/herself yet. I have had 3-4 offers from trademe for people offering $25k - $26k. So have the option to fall back to this. However I am not really in a crazy rush to sell it, and as have said earlier, would rather sell to an actual enthusiast or bimmersport member. I know when I bought the car 6 months ago for $27,000, that there were 3 or 4 people fighting over it (after being on trademe for only ONE day), and if I didn't take the day off work to go check the car, have it inspected, and buy it, it would have gone elsewhere. Since then I have put a full set of new tyres on the car ($1600), as well as replacing the 'angel-eyes' with white lighting instead of yellow, as well as a Jerry Clayton BMW service ($600ish). All I am looking to do is break even. Someone come and take the car away for $29,000...

Very nice! Love these in black. Love the cup holders. Strangely, what pissed me off most when I was looking at M3s is the lack of cup holders

Bump.

Haha yeah definitely needs a euro plate, trying to sort one out this week, I don't really like the HHS for some reason so am trying to find either a cheap personalised one, or a different non-personalized euro one. The old owner sorted out the current plate, I believe it was from Continental.

I enjoy leaves in my photos for some reason Lined up the only three BMWs I've owned so far for a photo on the weekend (my brother bought my blue one off me).

Awesome. I also considered the Lexus IS-F. But after seeing one in person, and discovering they only have 4 seats, and the rear leg/head room was really terrible, I was turned off. I love my BIG sedans I really need new euro number plates too...

Thanks Martin. I just hope that driving fairly normally most of the time will help it last longer. Brand new clutch/flywheel is a nice feeling so hopefully don't have to worry about that. I am still trying to track down a reasonably priced mechanical warranty, anyone have any ideas? I believe the 'primary cats' have been removed or such, to give it a tiny bit more growl/scream. Can't really notice/tell to be honest. Can't wait for the next bimmersport dyno day. Does anyone know how many kilowatts the E61 M5 estate got at the last one?