SE or Sport (Poll added)

[adam81]

the sport is overall winner

but don't let that cloud your decision, you are buying the car for yourself, go with your gut feeling

I will be honest with you Taz i was more going towards the SE but this has made me think.

The cost of change is actually slightly more on the SE believe it or not by £500 and there not budging on that. Either way im picking a car this week !

Thanks for your input guys

 

[Z4 Beemer]

Good grief! :? Just saw the updated poll figures and the Sport is miles ahead! I was one of the SE voters. The one thing that would swing it for me is the low mileage. Do you have any photos of them? Good luck in deciding!

 

[RX-78]

Another consideration for SE if you are using it as your everyday car is the comfort & hight. I use mine as every day car and have to drive it to visit my clients - often in pot hole heaven & across many speed bumps. 17" wheels should be more comfy and you might risk scraping the under side in 15mm lowered sport (ok, thats not much I suppose but I scraped a bit of my front bumper coming out of our awkward car park when it was snowing - I'd hate to think of the damage had I had Sports).

But agree with the above - Z4 will never be a completely sensible choice daily car, so go with your heart

p.s. I might buy Prius as economical run around - its price must be dropping right now!

 

[Sticks]

Does the SE def have 17's? I'd normally go for lower mileage but that would swing it for me, I'd want 18s. If I was buying mine again I'd certainly try the sports seats - SE's aren't supportive enough imo, but the sport ones are v narrow - and I do like xenons. BT is a plus too.

Did you mention colour? It has to be black for me, but some colours are more popular, so better resale.

That hasn't helped, has it? :? Good luck.

 

[MrGringo]

Having an SE, I would say that the things that annoy me most about it that I didn't know to look for when I bought it are:

Wheels - 16" star-spokes had to go.

Suspension makes the car sit a bit higher than the Sport looking a bit less aggressive - however this is probably good for speed bumps.

Interior trim - I have painted silver plastic trim, whereas sport models get the brushed alu trim as standard which IMO looks much nicer.

Anthracite Seats - although they are always comfy and warm and don't need the seat warmers like the leather's do. The bi-colour leathers always look amazing when photo's show up on here.

No Cruise
No Bluetooth - hard to retrofit so haven't done it
No M-Sport S/W
No Multi-function S/W
No Xenon lights