The £30k 2007 ///M Coupe !
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I tend to not believe mileages and go on cars condition. If you keep a vehicle for many years it's only £60 to knock the mileage back before MOT to a mileage just a little more than previous MOT and claim you haven't drove it and it's a toy. Now BMW have clued onto this and is now stored on key aswell
They quote slower than an M3 dur to gearing differences ?! WTF?! morons, that the worst advertising pitch I've ever seen.
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There were only about 600 apiece of MR & MCs shipped to the UK though, so similar rarity to the 1M.
As for Danny's point on mileage, there's also a tamper dot that appears on the instrument cluster next to the mileage if it's been 'amended'. And I believe - but don't know for sure - that the mileage is stored in 2 or 3 different places in car's systems.
As for Danny's point on mileage, there's also a tamper dot that appears on the instrument cluster next to the mileage if it's been 'amended'. And I believe - but don't know for sure - that the mileage is stored in 2 or 3 different places in car's systems.
PerryGunn said:Ah, for some reason, I thought it was closer to 1000 of eachBing said:
I guess the difference being that MC/ MRs weren't limited in numbers, they just didnt get high demand, the 1M was sought after and very limited in the UK.
That and the 1M was heavily lauded as a great driver's car and residuals have never dropped. Pretty much been £40-45k since new.
StevenH72 said:PerryGunn said:Ah, for some reason, I thought it was closer to 1000 of eachBing said:
I guess the difference being that MC/ MRs weren't limited in numbers, they just didnt get high demand, the 1M was sought after and very limited in the UK.
That and the 1M was heavily lauded as a great driver's car and residuals have never dropped. Pretty much been £40-45k since new.
That's true (about Z4M numbers) but BMW always intended them to be a very low volume car. The opening lines of the Autocar road test say (of the Z4MC) "If you like rare-groove, extreme machines you'll like the Z4 M Coupe. BMW GB is bringing in just 200 this year, making the chances of seeing another satisfyingly unlikely".
The thing that grates about the 1M is the hypocrisy of the journalists. It has a harsh, skittish ride and suffers lots of the issues of the Z4M's (damping, traction control intervention on bumpy roads etc) but it was always a darling of the media. My theory is it got an easier time of it because it was a cheap 4-seat M car, at a time when the rest of the M range had gone north of £50k and there was a market for people who could afford an E46M3 but couldn't afford the E92 or M5. Plus it had the longest, most hyped launch of any car ever (until Jag bought out the F-Type). There was loads of teaser photos, viral videos blah, blah, blah. It's not actually that special (non M engine for example) but was just cleverly marketed. BMW didn't make anything like that effort with the 4M's.
ChawenHalo said:
Agree. They go on about North American car horsepowers - who cares! According to Evo mag "Knowledge" the E46 M3 weighed 1495kg vs Z4M coupe 1420kg. Power to weight ratio therefore 230bhp/ton vs 242 bhp/ton. M3 0-60 quoted as 5.1, Z4M 5.0.
For the ragtops it gets better. 244 bhp/ton and 0-60 4.8s Z4MR vs 207 and 0-60 5.3 M3 Convertible.
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Its just a modern car which will depreciate as such
