04-25-2019, 10:15 AM | #1 |
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1998 M Roadster near me
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04-25-2019, 02:07 PM | #2 |
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Am I wrong or is that as really good price for that car ... that thing must be a lot of fun to drive.
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04-25-2019, 02:12 PM | #3 |
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Roadsters are cheaper than coupes, and S52s are WAY cheaper than S54s.
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04-25-2019, 03:38 PM | #4 |
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That is still a good price for the miles. Super fun little car. I just hear they fall apart right and left from the crappy build quality.
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04-25-2019, 03:41 PM | #5 |
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Clown shoe.
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04-25-2019, 07:45 PM | #6 |
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Hmmmm.... maybe my Dad didn't give me as good a deal as I thought. It does seem like that one is well priced.
We paid $8k for the one we got a couple weeks ago, 47k miles. So far, Cari really enjoys it.
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04-26-2019, 10:33 AM | #7 |
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With you, but... I'm not sure when this happened but there are all sorts of folk out there that regard this parts bin half-assed design as the ultimate in bmw collector-dom.
I guess they bring a fresh perspective if they haven't owned bmws for the last two decades like we have? |
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People like the MZ3, especially the S54, because it’s a really fun car to be in. It’s communicative. Also, unlike the 1M, it was fast in its day. (The 1M is a great driver’s car, but the objective performance wasn’t very good.)
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While I said "parts bin", that's not necessarily derogatory if they wrapped those parts in a body designed by a proper shop, as the 1M was. And, now that we are comparing tastes, I happen to like the e82. The z3 coupe in comparison seems to have been designed by an unhappy child told to put a roof on the z3 roadster (which itself was quite acceptable). |
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04-26-2019, 11:12 AM | #10 | |
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I also regard the E30 rear suspension as a net-positive. It’s part of what makes them so interesting to drive. And given that on 1998 tires, and with the S50B32 (which is meaningfully slower than the S54, as much as I like it), the Z3M was only 8 seconds slower around the Nurburgring, you could make a plausible argument that the 1M actually handles *worse* with its parts bin E9x M3 suspension.
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