Apex

Silver or black is fine, bright colours, not so fine. Unless your brakes are substantially large you shouldn’t show them off, would be like a porn star with a 2†tool of the trade painted Day Glow Orange.. Wrong. We need say ten rules, im sure one or two of them will offend but it’s all in good fun.

Were you a member of the V republic? They were sent to everyone that is..Bloody good of them!

In the interest of the public let’s make a few simple rules about what looks good and what doesn’t, also could be helpfull for those who dont want a attention from the Police. Inspired by King Karl. Rule #1) unless you have big impressive brakes don’t paint them bright colours, especially if you’re running three up rim size. Painted drums are ok, shows you have a sense of humour.

So cool, Tourings go great on the track!

I dont know, buy some and find out.

I have 235 on an 8" wide rim, so with 9" wide I would want 245.

Much better!!! Looks good and you can go fast over bumpy stuff now, the touring’s can handle quite well, so adjustable, have shocked a few tail-gaters with mine through the twisties.

Wow, I want your interior in my imaginary E34. You should really do a proper photo shoot on it Simon. Good luck Mr E34.

Brave man if you are the one to be wed, your f**ked if you do or don’t go really. So 100 BMW's plus other classes, where do you all pit? Might have to come and have a look for myself, there were a few E30 testing at Pukekohe last Saturday when I was going around. A white F/L E30 coupe was the quickest I come by.

They look awesome. Given I didn’t have the control part of my brain in tack (read missus) I would buy the car, fit an EVO lip and paint it in my preferred colour, the interior, engine/mechanical work and wheels are amazing and it needs little to be a total package. Good luck with the sale, I hope you are offered what it’s worth and if not I hope you decide to keep it, I have been down the path of spending way too much on a car and having to sell and the regret still bugs me when I see one of my old cars.

Those guards look like they have been working out, are they wider than stock? they look like the later model width is all.

V have been working on the shots for a while and wanted to be the brand to introduce the shots to the NZ market but as it happens the other brands got in early! Have been handing out a few of these shots at club meets the last few weeks and people seem to like them, they have about two cans of V worth of caffeine and what not in each shot and a whack of sugar, good for a boost of energy when needed, I can recommend against more than two a day. The guy with the rocket pack came from America and he actually does fly, he went up quite high and then they cut it (just like the monster truck add) it costs about 2k for every short flight he makes. The cone on the sky tower was obviously not a real cone as it would have had to have been 6m high to be visible.

Ah sweet it was an 06 F1 225 team then. 24k is what it went for, a guy on Fast frogs was bidding on it upto 20 then watched it climb to 24, a guy in the south island brought it. He said it was a 225RS. That’s not a bad price depending on KM’s, someone got a bargain, bang for you buck. Oh, and there is a big difference between the F1 and regular 225RS’s, a big difference.

I heard they had one but no one knew the spec, so I didn’t know what car they were talking about. I was told it went for 24k. 2003-2005 RS225 $20-25k 2006-2009 facelift RS225 $25-35k depending on year and millage. 2006 Megane 225 Team F1 $25-30k (only ten in NZ) 2007-2009 Megane Team F1 R26 $30-45k. Do you know what it was??

Id rock a Corvette Z06... Id rock out with my out in a ZR1.

The RS225 is good, they have leather and a much softer suspension tune compared to the Team F1 cars and are a real bargain second hand. Build quality is very average and parts and servicing will cost you an arm and a leg, being rare in NZ New Genuine parts and dealer repair jobs are the only option, and even then your dealer will struggle, basic servicing and maintenance is relatively friendly. IMO You would have to be a driving enthusiast to justify one as bar the brilliant dynamics and ergonomics they fail in comparison to the mainstream products, if I was buying for my wife and kids VW would get my money. I actually assumed the MPS 3 had an LSD like the old MPS 3, will pick up a copy. They are all soft compared to the Megane. Was reading NZ autocar and the R26 is still the quickest hatch even after all these years.

Average Consumption: 8.9 with a lead foot. 7.7 is acheavable over a tank if your doing mostly motorway/open road trips. At the race track: 11.5, did 60 laps and had half a tank left. Are you looking at a R26? Some good end of line deals going at the moment. Had no tyres left though, new Pirelli’s going on this week, went for the P-Zero Nero, will give a report on them if anyone is interested, the Dunlop’s that were on it will be hard to beet.

LSD works well, lots of traction out of corners now, just need some new tyres to tack advantage of it, car was slipping hard at Pukekohe. Under steer… 450HP HSV. Easy pray 190hp Clio. Not so easy pray. Took a bit to get past this little thing, one of the fastest road cars there. Love it at trackdays, people always come up and ask him what it it and why its so fast.

I buy a car for the way it drives not for what people think or how it looks, they are down the list, without a drive a car is worth nothing to me, people on forums like these are filled with fan boys that will have driven very few cars and actually believe the car or brand they are driving is the pinnacle of motoring and are completely closed minded to any other options. From a performance and driver enjoyment point of view I can tell you that the E65 is the best drive in its respective category, we drove five or six of the E65 last year as well as the Lexus LS430 and Mercedes W220 S430 and the 745i came out trumps, lots of go for a big car and designer interior to match the quality feel. Maintenance, running costs and part failure costs could be catastrophic though. As Crockett sais and Looking at what you want, a luxury cruiser with high quality and low maintenance costs you cannot go past the Lexus GS300, I am a massive fan of these cars, and they are well worth a drive.

+23 Dog and Lemon guide is useless, takes worst case scenario of all cars, a Toyota can go years without even basic maintenance so it will come always up trumps.. One school holidays I went through one with a highlighter and found at least three errors on each page, the guy knows nothing about cars, he actually gets entire models mixed up and then generalises a whole decade of cars.

Bottle-Cap it to suite the stock suspension and brakes, would be awesome.

Done. Voted when I sore it the other day. Please vote for Apex's 320i Touring in the Contemp section and Riely's V8 Powered E30 and heaths Pergoteee 205 GTI in Modified. Thanks. PS: Bring ya Isetta to thr next Bimmersport meet and we will all vote for you Epic little cars, nearly as rare as E30 but not quire Haha.

745i is where its at, dynamic as well as comfortable. why two topics on a the whale car? Just go out and drive one buddy... I'll come

Thats a cool photo. More! Maybe a random photo thread. Will resize with I-Photo

The car was over $250-300k new. New parts dont depreciate. Expect a 10k bill here and there.