I think people need to remember that this price is no longer the sum of the raw parts, it's buying in to an experience you can no longer get anywhere else (i mean the CSL specifically). There aren't many, and as it's a bit of an iconic model i wouldnt be surprised to see them fetching double that price in a few years. It's becoming a collectors item, sadly.
M3 CSL @ £70k
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stevo///m3 said:Machine monkey said:
I've "met" Nick, too. Fair enough bloke in my view, everyone has to earn a living and I suppose he does OK out of BMWs. When I met him it was to purchase my old M3 (he was at that time knocking out E46 M3s, RS4s and the odd CSL) - the E36 M3 I bought was a cracking car in its own right given age and all that and he had great wheels on it when I got there (Hartge classic 2s as they were at the time (IIRC) - it's in my sig pic below). He'd taken it as p/x on a CSL I think. Managed to leave him with the shoitest car he'll ever have seen, a ready-for-the-bin fiesta which I'd taken from my best mate as debt forgiveness when my mate bought a better car. I called him a couple of weeks after the purchase and he confirmed he'd already binned the Fiesta...
The only thing I'd say against him is that when we went to count out the cash, he had fecking massive lizards in a glass case in the room!! Not the biggest issue in the world but there was just that moment when I thought "If I try something funny here, I'm going to get eaten by the big lizards"
Stevo
I get what your saying he is more a friend to me than a guy i would do a deal with. So i have a different view point.
The lizards are lovely he has a little one that head bangs to rock music!! I dont think even the big ones could eat a human
From the eBay listing:85genius said:
> WILL HAVE 6 MONTHS TAX AS I AM TAXING IT THIS WEEKEND
He obviously hasn't caught up with the new VED regulations. (He's not alone. I've been thinking of getting an E93 and I'm amazed at how many ads still say "x months tax left".
> It was fully repaired and resprayed in pearl white back in 2011 before I had the car when it was involved in a minor accident so it was
> recorded as a cat d.
That's the kicker. There's no such thing as a cheap M3, and unless the repair and respray were done very, very well, I wouldn't go near this. And don't forget that the insurance on a Cat D M3 won't be easy to get, and selling it on may be problematic...
I've not driven other 'semi-auto' boxes but had the SMG in my E46 M3 convertible. Other than the fact it can fail and cost a lot of money to fix, I really liked it, I was still grabbing for a paddle for the first week or so when I got my Z4MC :-D
It takes a bit of time to learn how best to use SMG and how it works best for you. After being caught in the wrong gear too many times when slowing down I learned to use the paddleshift to drop the gears myself rather than letting SMG decide what gear I should be in when slowing down. And as for slow gearchanges, in the faster modes (S4/5/6) and pushing on, it's as fast or faster than manually shifting.
It takes a bit of time to learn how best to use SMG and how it works best for you. After being caught in the wrong gear too many times when slowing down I learned to use the paddleshift to drop the gears myself rather than letting SMG decide what gear I should be in when slowing down. And as for slow gearchanges, in the faster modes (S4/5/6) and pushing on, it's as fast or faster than manually shifting.
Exactly what I thought about the F10 M5 I was planning on buying last year too, great for having a blast in, but rubbish for everyday driving. It's supposed to be a car which is comfortable and easy to drive around town or crawl in traffic, which can be a monster at times, but it's just always too eager and jerky especially at low speed, almost impossible to smoothly pull away from lights etc... That's why I ended up getting my XFR which has a proper auto gearbox, it makes a much better everyday car IMO.Babw said:
MickAdams said:
Yeah agreed. I bought a 550i instead of the M5 down to the gearbox and the scarcely believable range or lack thereof.
CSL is a very cool car, the composite tech back during it's development was pretty groundbreaking at that moment for a car in it's price range. I do however remember going to a BMW dealership Rybrook Shrewsbury I think to pick up her new E46 M3 convertible and there was a CSL looking sorry for itself priced somewhere in the 40's; just for comparison the 46M fully loaded was in the mid 50's.