Apex

Welcome. Nice car, love the E46 M3. I had a IS200 back in the day, back when there were only a few on the road and cost a bloody fortune, mine had the full TTE treatment including the supercharger, was actually active on the forum that predated the Altezza forum most of the members started. Agree. +1.

V8's sound nice and have a nice bit of kick to them, personally I think you need to own a V8 at least once in your life and with the way fuel prices are going now is as good a time as ever. I miss my V8 beemer once in a while, mostly on the motorway. 530i is a nice car though, will be more economical and has better steering. Bar the small capacity diesel's none of the E39's are very economical by modern standards so its much of a muchness. That does not make much sense to me, I would think the lighter car with the smaller engine would be more economical when cruising seeing they have the same rolling resistance. When you are at a certain speed you don't need a lot of power to maintain it.

I know where a manual 330i motorsport touring is. And a lady drives it. And she wont sell it to me

Looks like it still has a tape deck. A tape deck in 2005? Who was still buying all the tapes?

Its puts the lotion on the ignition or else it gets the hose.

For tax purposes I gifted mine to a trust years ago.

f**kers.

I find being severely hungover messes with something and makes me emotional watching most movies. Schindlers List gets me going, its powerful movies that get to me. You could buy a manual E60 M5 in the USA. That movie was ll sorts of bad, I just wondered why these rich gangsters would be driving shitty old E60 M5's and how they some how managed to keep with what was a F1 car.... even scarier the Hummer was keeping up with both. And then the runway scene!

I wish there were more European kits available, because most of the good kits come from Japan its 80% Japanese cars. Must have spent tens of thousands on them over the years, paints and tools alone were not cheap. Not a kit, but this RC car come in a million pieces and was fully mechanical, was even 4WD, built it when I was a kid, still have it somewhere, unfortunately it will most likely be the only E30 M3 I own in my life.

Good work, love kit sets. Have built many dust collectors over the years, was good at it when I was younger and had a larger attention span and time to do it, my last attempt was a basic GTR a five years ago. Have a mega Tamija 1/10th scale Datsun 240z to do one day when I have a few weeks spare.

Wheels look sh*t hot, shame about the slush box though! Manual conversion is a total transformation of the way the car drives.

So Pukekohe race track then? Haha

I never even knew a Mitsubishi Evolution was geared for those speeds, all I have driven have run out of puff around 200 and are not geared to do much more, they are geared for rally not the autobahn. Would love to see a old crappy 740 try and stop from 200kph, I have a feeling it would do it once and then catch fire.

Fantastic looking car, worth every dollar IMHO.

Haere mai. These are fantastic car, were the CS available with a proper manual or are they all SMG like the CSL.

Its just BMW's way of making the model distinguishable, car companies don't sell cars as a "facelift" that is something the media coined. To me LCI is better than "na mate its a late 2008 car so it has LED lights, revised bumpers and some new door cards"

I fully agree. On a motorway with multiple lanes, good weather and visibility, late at night with no traffic on the road it has been tempting to test out the top speed of my car. I drive at 200kph on public roads all the time though, some as wide as your driveway, 200kph on a motorway is nothing, its like a big wide smooth race track. Time and a place. The thought of you driving near 70kph through a residential where my family are scares me more than you giving your car a boot on the motorway.

Link to build thread? Would love a 4-Door E30 Facelift with a S14.

Oh so LCI is the facelift/ I only learned of this recently when looking at second hand E60's and someone pointed out a PDF outlining what changes the LCI brought on, I was quite amazed at how many small things they changed that most people wouldn't even notice, was interesting. See here... maybe not so interesting if you aren't't a geek http://5series.net/info/2008_LCI_Detailed_Changes.pdf

Love it!

Welcome. I'm sure you will find lots of advice and help with parts around here. What can I say, its a 20 year old car that was designed to last 5 so crap will need replacing.

Also. Its not lunch time.

What? LCI is like a minor face lift mid model year, often its small changes like lights, interior trim, entertainment software etc.

Cool car dude.

And with over night parts from Japan it will decimate all. Sorry, I have to make a F&F reference every time I see a Supra. Good luck with the sale.