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16 hour flight delayed 1 hour while they off load some prick with no visa. Causes us to miss not one but two flights from Auckland to Wellington. Then our 3rd flight is over an hour late leaving. Weather's sh*t. Welcome home I guess haha.

It's just volume. And a weak NZ dollar.

Similar to what happened to mine. Though I mentioned race car. Didn't help me after that. Was many years ago though.

Pick up a new BMW in Munich. Rub shoulders with all the Russian crime bosses/politicians picking up their custom M5s.

They lasted a season in my old E30 race car. I was not impressed.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/24/bmw-city-scooters/ Can you get a DUI on one of these?

325's. I was looking two weeks back. Was over a dozen of them. Quite a few Motorsports too.

There is a ton of nice 08+ ones on there when I was looking. They seem to have flooded in.

Are 325i's not all 3ltr anyway?

Guy built a nice E30 Vert with Tesla and Volt gear. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa5kGfLlOUNlxuVF2RRTDig Looks quite fun.

It really was fridge like. But during the winter when the rich folk head to Naples to lounge in their 40 million dollar beach houses for a month, they like to be seen driving from the Airport in these monstrosities.

The junk here is true junk. New cars are often cheaper than NZ's second hand cars though. In the DMV area old Euros (more than 5 years old) are dirt cheap. I would say they are around 30% cheaper than the NZ equivalent. Newer M cars would be at least 50% cheaper. Its the old numbers game. There are just so many of them. And after the 3 year lease is up they get dumped on the market.

So I was wondering around a standard car dealership in Naples, Florida last night after a few drinks. Amongst the 30+ Bentley SUV's, 15 or more Rolls cars of various types and over 60 Jags of which nearly all were R's. I saw this for the first time in person... Also this great discount on a New R Wagon. Drop of $30K USD. You would however need to move out of the neighborhood with your filthy hood rat station wagon. Yuck be gone poor person....

Interesting you say that. Now that I am coming back to NZ. Cars in NZ are not cheap compared to the US. And Professional Maintenance is far far cheaper than here.

It is something I didn't realise until I lived in the US though. I started catching on when I had my E60 530d which had done 217,000kms and still drove and looked better than most that had done sub 100K. Though on this M3 with that many KM's no history of some of the import repairs is not good. Nothing a PPI from a BMW indi couldn't sort I guess.

Funny. 100K miles in the US is still considered low mileage. Kiwis: Cars done 100K Km's. Will probably blow up now. Better sell it. Whats everyone on TM listing theirs for? Advertise it for the same price...

Haha same here. And then I drove a GTR. They both need 50K thrown at them these days.

MkIV never had any X factor for me. Always thought it was a fat whale of a car.

Will take it. Sent you a message.

Must be getting old. I think it looks sh*t. Wheels are naff.

No I mean if they continue down that track. There is money in boring little econoboxes. It's what the majority want. But as we keep saying. Who cares. None of us will buy one. Most of us will stick with the old BMW's we grew up with. That's where the true fun and pain is.

It's when BMW shifts it's focus from prestige and sports cars/suvs to econo-boxes to chase the $$$ that I think will hurt it's image. It could slip into the VW category where they just make a ton of average vehicles for joe blogs. There should be two groups. BMW for Joe Blogs. M Division for the enthusiast. Oh wait haha.

I can't get past all the fake plastic panels and what seems like 416 different angles all over the car. I hardly see them on my travels. Gives me the feeling i'm not the only one who thinks they look cheap and nasty. Unless you were going to punish it on the track I would rather a Magane.

Very mediocre cheap feeling car. You won't be impressed by it.

Most of them sell for $4K or less. Even in good condition. I'm sure BAT are pumping up some of these sales. There is some real crap selling for big bucks on there.