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Lime Rock Grey F80 M3 CS outside Moore Wilson's this afternoon 😍

The market will decide but fully agree @Michael. - be lucky to get 100k, won’t be easy / cheap to return to stock and BMW won’t be keen to honour the warranty (given remap) if something goes bang…

The Akrapovic exhaust doesn't bother me but the air suspension and ugly ass wheels can FRO. Also M5's are meant to be driven but hard pass on one treated like that

truly outstanding commitment. i think you must have balls of steel to run an N62 as your 'reliable' engine.

@simplysimon impressive thread resurrection. If you enter your VIN into RealOEM it should tell you what the gearbox is

manual LHD one would fetch good money in Europe / US one imagines...

@E30 325i Rag-Top please tell me they've given you an iX to use 😂

@adro's E46 in Newtown...looking good!

E28 in Hataitai

Ooooh that's nice. Lachssilber is maybe the best E30 colour and I like how stealthy it is, no flared arches...

@Harper this is the definition of OEM+. Seats look great, hard to go past for a weekend car.

Facelift is definitely the way to go (ZF 8 speed vs a 6 speed in the PFL). How short would your round town journeys be? Might start to run into difficulties with never getting up to temp/carbon build up and the economy isn't going to be amazing either. The diesels are nicer to drive due to the torque though. My N57-engined car (same as 40d) takes 13-18km to get to temp (mix of round town and motorway running)

What did the dealer quote you out of interest @fred_? Given the online integration of the newer models it could be more cost effective to get the car 'converted' to NZ model then use online map updates

The above plus you're likely to kill your Xdrive transfer case.

no E63 wagons on TM and usually they're mid 60's for S212 generation. C63 is too small, sounds great though.

I can't help but find this strangely appealing. Rationally it makes very little sense and I should probably hold out for an Alpina touring. I doubt the Mercedes V8 is any more reliable than the N63 in the F10. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/mercedes-benz/e-550/listing/3281819939

it appears the V8's have banded together to kick out the odd one out... lovely looking car, sure it'll sell quick

I wouldn’t rule out based on km but condition rules with cars of this age, 120k hot running way better than 75k round town. I saw that 2011 one, looks quite nice and has a towbar but would want to check it’s running Index 11 coils or there goes your 2k maintenance fund

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/325i/listing/3278720378 looks reasonable too - on a full set of Bridgestones (albeit the RE050s are not great, but at least implies the owner hasn't skimped on maintenance) and has a BMW workshop plate surround. Look for blue (OEM) coolant rather than green. Probably 1 yr / 15k km is the sweet spot. One without any idrive is probably fine too, fit a Grom / Dension unit for Bluetooth.

Welcome @MaiaB! Good choice, E91 with a 6 cylinder is very much the sweet spot. Don't bother with a 4cyl, engines are nothing but trouble and not even much more economical than the 6. The pre-facelift ones (2005-2008) have the N52B25 which is a bit more robust than the N53 in the facelifted ones (which have trouble with coils / injectors / NOX sensor). Worth checking if waterpump / thermostat have been done on the N52.

Very nice @JonRP. Alpina Blue and Alpina Green are such special colours. The Japan spec bootlid and front plate mount are the only thing that I would change if it were mine but appreciate you may wish to preserve the originality. Cloth sport seats are cool. I must confess I've been looking at the touring versions of these but as they're all UK market cars they'll probably all be rusty by now (unlike this one I assume) https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2003-bmw-alpina-e39-b10-v8s-touring

I bet the North Koreans are driving one of these...

@Jacko Alpina don't make the iX 🤔

Clearly a foreign mission with taste...they've replaced it with an X6 🤮

Here you go @leichtbau... https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/335d/listing/3281156985?bof=Ioua1f5s (OK it's not an Edition model but otherwise looks pretty well specced, chrome line window trim is 'interesting' though and it needs the raised roof rails replaced with the flush mount ones) wbaux72000a494144-bimmer.work.pdf