Sold my lotus Exige S a month or so ago to pay for an impending house extension.

If I've got any money left once the extension is done (which is unlikely!) I'll need a new toy, already crawling the walls driving my Saab 9-5 daily beater! I loved the exige, most fun car I've had and I never once got bored of it in 2 and a bit years ownership. I'm tempted to get another but.....................

as I'm getting old now (32, lol) thought it was about time I tried a grown up car. I've had 5 different scoobs, couple of skyline GTR's and the exige. Borrowed a friends E46 M3 recently and was quite impressed, not hugely quick but enought to have some fun and lots of toys. Can pick up a decent one for maybe £10k now or I could do a bit of finance and go for the current model, would be limited to £25-30k tops so an early 07 -08 reg.

I'm hankering after the current shape M3 as love the thought of a V8, have considered RS4 also but really want something RWD.

So after lots of waffle, has one of the great scoobynet masses owned an E90/92 M3? If so, what did you think? All I know is I only want a manual car and preferably the 3 door with carbon roof as it looks cool

 

I bought a 2008 Arctic White 6spd M3 Coupe with the carbon roof and fox red leather interior just over 4 weeks ago

Refined untill you get to 6000 rpm, then its a hoot! The noise is great!

Slightly clunky gearbox as expected, lovely interior, fab looks.

Definately worth a test drive!

One of the last V8 BMW's you'll be able to buy

Cheers

Dan

 

Hi Dan

exactly the spec I'd like, white, red leather and manual, you swine Mind if I ask how much you paid? Would also consider black or grey but white is

How you finding the car, anything you don't like? Assume tax is high band £400+ per annum.

Would like a set of the Competition Pack alloys as well but I rather suspect they will be silly money to buy from BMW.

Agreed with everything going turbo charged this will be the last N/A powered M car.

On a side note, friend has ordered a new M1 in white, going to pick it up in 6 weeks with him, can't wait!

 

White with the black roof is easily the most popular...making it the easiest to sell on
$49k, living in Vancouver so no car tax
But the insurance is $$$ especially when my 16 year old daughter wanted to learn in it (She's had to make do with a Hyundai Santa Fe to learn in instead)

It could do with a tad more torque Supercharger next year will sort that!
Will ship it down to these guys http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=476285

Nothing bad to report yet! Got it with an extended warranty and its CPO...

Cheers

Dan

 

To old for an Exige?

I've got at least *cough* 10 *cough* years on you and if mine hadn't have been written off I'd still have it.

To old, indeed.....mutter mutter.....

 

Stick one of these on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIG8sedWf_Q

 

I have the E90 M3 as my daily drive(dec/09 on 59 plate).....great car to drive slow/fast in but compare to my P1 its abit boring , has all the worthwhile options EDC, DCT 7speed box , comfort access, voice control , extended leather, carbon fibre interior trim etc etc , see my garage for pics .
you be better off with the 09 model year as these have harddrive satnavs so you can store music files on the drive .

beware that the v8 drink alot of petrol ( I average 16-18 mpg around town).....great if you can afford the petrol

 

On one of the forums there was a guy posted he'd had his E92 M3 stolen and apparently they are pi$$ easy to steal without having the car keys

Fab car seem lacking in torque for a 4.0LTR V8 at 295ft lbs?

 

Great cars! handle well in the dry poo in the wet.Had one back in 08 was a great car!!

 

RS4 only has 20lb/ft more, yet the M3 is considerably quicker once moving..
They are a revy V8 at the end of the day and not a lazy V8 like in a lot of the Yank mobiles.. The C63 is a torque monster for a V8, but it is a 6.2 so hardly on the same level..

 

Bear in mind the RS4 is 4 wheel drive, hence higher drive-train losses and the M3 pulling away from a roll

 

these look to be in around the 25k mark now. Geting very affordable. But looking at the drop on the e46 m3, they have a ways to go yet. I fancy a white one with red leather then they are low enough. Then all i need is the e30 and ill have the set

 

Cheers for the comments guys.

The Eismann exhaust sounds awesome, I've heard a full race version on an M5 which was incredible. But at £1800 on the M3 I simply couldn't justify the expense. I thought £400 for my old Blitz Nur Spec was too expensive, lol

Might have to get an E46 M3 as a stop gap until my extension is done and I know how much money I have left to play with.

 

Have you thought about a 335i. I was looking at a E46 M3 and the e92 335's seamed a much better buy.

 

but its not a "M" though is it ...............

 

True, but I was so disappointed after driving a e46 m3. I find the 335i quicker in the real world, miles better dct gearbox, probably more efficient, nicer interior and it's not the old model.

I do sometimes wish I'd bought a 57 reg E92 M3 but I bottled it.

 

335i with DCT decent example still minimum of mid £20k's tho. I know as been looking myself. If you have one what mpg do you get? Still amazes me that BMW have a 3.0 TT in a lower road tax band than my 2.0 n/a CTR and less than half the price of the current 2.5 STi......

 

I have an DCT M3 , in Estoril blue , started of boring silverstone blue !
Engine is great , DCT gearbox is amazing , handles well , drinks fuel like its going out of fashion lol

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during




afterwards

 

I love the silverstone blue, but love what you've done there.

P1 - I average anywhere between 20 and 35 mpg on the inboard computer. I had 2 weeks travelling 10 miles a day to work and it only managed 21 mpg as it barely warmed up. On a good drive at 70 - 90 mph I easy get over 30mpg. It's around town it's not good.

 

I only ever had best 16.7 mpg from new !!!(its on 8950miles today and had its brake service done@£116 ) have to say very "cheap" car to maintain if you do every low mileage due to CBS servicing, only cost me around £400ish in servicing in 18 months of motoring.

 

[QUOTE=Ian Godney;10225522]I have an DCT M3 , in Estoril blue , started of boring silverstone blue !
Engine is great , DCT gearbox is amazing , handles well , drinks fuel like its going out of fashion lol

not sold yrs yet Ian ?

 

[QUOTE=bighead;10226492]No changed my mind and took it off the Market , getting tempted by the GT-R at the moment so might be back up for sale

 

[QUOTE=Ian Godney;10226675]Great car though , but I think its really is wrong time to sell in current climate (but then the GT-R is even a harder car to sell ...so you might gets a bargain)

 

Would a remap not improve the fuel economy?

 

A friend has an e92 m3 and can't believe how good the mpg is in my 335i. I keep telling him what do you expect with another 100+ bhp

 

its not the 100+ bhp, its because one's a highly tuned N/A engine and the other is a twin turbo engine which can produce similar bhp but in a smaller engine size.... why do you think the Next generation M3s are twin turbo

 

doubt it on a N/A car

 

Thats interesting bighead the comment you made its abit boring compare your P1! I was considering chopping my P1 in mint condition for an E46 not the E90 that you got which is alot better than an E46! Better think again

 

[QUOTE=bighead;10226682]
Yeah I see cars are struggling to sell , I'm not be too bothered if mine doesn't sell as I love the car , just got a itch to scratch that is the GT-R

would be good to find someone with a GT-R who's looking to free up some cash and will do a swap with mine , i'll keep my eye on what's about

 

Mid £20k's will get you an E90 M3 also.