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If its a new car in OZ with hail damage on 3 panels or more its a write-off.

All NZ new E46 M3's are registered as 4wd.

From what I can gather, there are currently 17 NZ new 3.2 Coupes, and a couple of imports. Older cars, say pre 2000's are harder to define due to the original data entry.

Photo of it on the Targa Tour: https://www.proshotz.com/p811735922

My Brother had the plate 4OOBHP (not 400BHP) on his Avus Blue E39 M5.

Im pretty sure that's the case. A friend of mine imported it for the owner. I think it might have done 1 Targa Tour.

Don't think its written off: https://www.turners.co.nz/Damaged-Vehicles/Damaged-Cars-for-Sale/bmw/3-series/18859747 A pretty rare car being manual and NZ new. WBAWB72090PW80009

And another one! https://www.turners.co.nz/Damaged-Vehicles/Damaged-Cars-for-Sale/bmw/i/18056270 WBY1Z42070V248164 What is with all these i3's getting written off?

Really? What country? NZ? Were they all LHD?

Wow, the above car is NZ new, but sat around for 4 years before it was registered.

https://www.manheim.co.nz/damaged-vehicles/000000000005421030/2015-bmw-i3-e-drive-hatch?referringPage=SearchResults WBY1Z22070V221003 https://www.manheim.co.nz/damaged-vehicles/000000000005421495/2017-bmw-i3-hatch?referringPage=SearchResults WBY1Z82020V550596

This is a different car to the last one.

Second time its been dereg'd. I guess it may have had a frontal the first time since it had orange indicators.

lbo99, have you had a look at any of the E46 M3's that have popped up for sale? This one seems nice: https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1833187514

Importing a car from the UK could be an issue with rust compliance, but once its here and been through compliance it should be fine. Only small things like MPH speedos can be a pain.