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jock156 said:
Chatting with Jingle about it he commented about garaging it. I don’t, nor have the room for a garage, so I guess it’s game over. Head 60 Heart 40:
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Looked at the E31 many times. Watched them when they were cheap, and watched them when they went mentally priced. Seem to have come to a decent 'classic car' price level now.
Absolutely beautiful looking car IMHO. A bona-fide classic now and would need to be treated as such. I think a garage would be a minimum requirement and deep pockets for use only very occasionally. The 850 is the 'one' to have IIRC.

I keep getting drawn back to this; even though it is utterly impractical. expensive, stupid and not part of the 'new plan' for me. Gorgeous!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202302094093020?advertising-location=at_cars&include-delivery-option=on&make=Jaguar&model=XKR&postcode=pe111xn&sort=relevance&year-from=2013&fromsra
 
The ‘one to have’ is the Alpina B12 Coupe 5.7 (the B12 designation was also used by the 7 series of the same vintage).

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Pondrew said:
jock156 said:
Chatting with Jingle about it he commented about garaging it. I don’t, nor have the room for a garage, so I guess it’s game over. Head 60 Heart 40:
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Looked at the E31 many times. Watched them when they were cheap, and watched them when they went mentally priced. Seem to have come to a decent 'classic car' price level now.
Absolutely beautiful looking car IMHO. A bona-fide classic now and would need to be treated as such. I think a garage would be a minimum requirement and deep pockets for use only very occasionally. The 850 is the 'one' to have IIRC.

I keep getting drawn back to this; even though it is utterly impractical. expensive, stupid and not part of the 'new plan' for me. Gorgeous!
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202302094093020?advertising-location=at_cars&include-delivery-option=on&make=Jaguar&model=XKR&postcode=pe111xn&sort=relevance&year-from=2013&fromsra
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We are looking at a beautiful car and you enter a piece of cr*p in the thread from a defunct company :poke:
 
pvr said:
We are looking at a beautiful car and you enter a piece of cr*p in the thread from a defunct company
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It's called class! You can't buy it. :D
 
mmm-five said:
The ‘one to have’ is the Alpina B12 Coupe 5.7
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Ah yes, but the 'one to have' is always the Alpina. Shame they are no longer going to be sprinkling their (very expensive) magic dust on anything from now on. :(
 
Pondrew said:
mmm-five said:
The ‘one to have’ is the Alpina B12 Coupe 5.7
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Ah yes, but the 'one to have' is always the Alpina. Shame they are no longer going to be sprinkling their (very expensive) magic dust on anything from now on. :(
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Alpina version of anything was out of the question for me, as insurance quotes were about 2x that of an ///M :headbang:

Wanted the e34 B10 Bi-Turbo, but ended up with the M5. I suppose it made my username easier to decode :P
 
The E31 is a jaw droppingly gorgeous car but it's likely to feel old hat as a daily driver these days. The design must go back to the very early 90s so it's going to have a whiff of 80s about it. After a Z4 it's a big jump backwards.

There's not much difference in terms of performance between V8 and V12 apparently. In the 90s BMW used to tune the bigger engines and gearing for economy over power, particularly in automatics so they'd probably be disappointing by today's standards. My old E36 325i was geared for 205mph in top so it did about 2000 rpm at 70mph. I read a review once of a 750i that said it was doing 1200rpm at 70.
 
If you can afford the running costs, go for it and enjoy.

You are a long time dead and as my wife keeps telling me, we are here for a good time not a long time.
 
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