thegreatestben
Member
Hi all,
Just joined after spending the past few weeks reading quite a few posts from this forum. Lots of great knowledge available here.
I've just bought one of only a handful of NZ new delivered 3.0SI coupes. There's only 22 showing in our national database, for those who don't know NZ is a country that gets a lot of imports from various countries - for euro models it would be Japan and the UK.
I'm really happy with my purchase, it's an 06 build delivered in April 2007 car which is optioned as an M sport. Montego blue with black leather/brushed alloy interior. Matches our '06 E91 330D touring in matching colour/interior really nicely 8) I've also had a 130i M sport in Montego blue with light grey leather and 6spd manual. I've also owned a handful of other BMW's and many many other cars, mainly Toyota's.
After deciding to get a coupe, I narrowly missed out on buying another NZ new coupe (same car twice in 12 months). First time I didn't have the cash at hand and someone else swooped on it while I was trying to scrape the asking price together. Then that chap listed it as an auction about 2 weeks ago, I bid on it but someone wanted it much more than I could, with the car selling for nearly $5000 more than he'd paid for it. I was gutted as I knew my chances of finding another were slim...
Funnily enough my car popped up less than a week later at the other end of the North Island. My brother had spotted it listed for sale and after calling the owner I bought it on the spot. The owner was a really great guy and gave me all the history of the car he knew, he's owned it the past 4 years. I picked it up last week whilst up in Auckland for work, drove it back yesterday. 600km of getting to know the car was enjoyable!
My plan is to use it as a weekender, we've somehow turned into a 3 car, 1 motorbike family between my girlfriend, the dog and myself. I've found a couple of things I'll need to sort out on the car but it's largely very tidy with only 78,000km on the clock.
Just joined after spending the past few weeks reading quite a few posts from this forum. Lots of great knowledge available here.
I've just bought one of only a handful of NZ new delivered 3.0SI coupes. There's only 22 showing in our national database, for those who don't know NZ is a country that gets a lot of imports from various countries - for euro models it would be Japan and the UK.
I'm really happy with my purchase, it's an 06 build delivered in April 2007 car which is optioned as an M sport. Montego blue with black leather/brushed alloy interior. Matches our '06 E91 330D touring in matching colour/interior really nicely 8) I've also had a 130i M sport in Montego blue with light grey leather and 6spd manual. I've also owned a handful of other BMW's and many many other cars, mainly Toyota's.
After deciding to get a coupe, I narrowly missed out on buying another NZ new coupe (same car twice in 12 months). First time I didn't have the cash at hand and someone else swooped on it while I was trying to scrape the asking price together. Then that chap listed it as an auction about 2 weeks ago, I bid on it but someone wanted it much more than I could, with the car selling for nearly $5000 more than he'd paid for it. I was gutted as I knew my chances of finding another were slim...
Funnily enough my car popped up less than a week later at the other end of the North Island. My brother had spotted it listed for sale and after calling the owner I bought it on the spot. The owner was a really great guy and gave me all the history of the car he knew, he's owned it the past 4 years. I picked it up last week whilst up in Auckland for work, drove it back yesterday. 600km of getting to know the car was enjoyable!
My plan is to use it as a weekender, we've somehow turned into a 3 car, 1 motorbike family between my girlfriend, the dog and myself. I've found a couple of things I'll need to sort out on the car but it's largely very tidy with only 78,000km on the clock.
out of interest what would that be for you?
North West Surrey
