Decieved!!!

[Nick.Hay]

It always makes me laugh when I get guesses anywhere up to $45k(AUD)!!

But I love showing people how good a daily-driven 15 year old BMW can be!!

[tony2beemers]

It always makes me laugh when I get guesses anywhere up to $45k(AUD)!!

But I love showing people how good a daily-driven 15 year old BMW can be!!

Over here in the UK, there are quite a lot of the higher performance engine E34's available, at 'cheap as chips' prices. That's only because gas costs us three times as much as it does to fill up at the pump as you folks.
I've got the 520 but last year a guy I bought an E30 from (keeps the wife happy, the car not the guy) gave me a ride in his 535. What an enormous difference!!!
I'd have one tomorrow, no I'd have one today, if it was'nt for the rip off prices we pay at the pumps. Us Brits envy you guys.

[biondani]

Paid 1400ukp for mine in March 04, it's a 91 525i Sport. Probably spent about 2000 on it since (new clutch, new flywheel, new brake disks, new water pump etc etc etc) but still the most enjoyable car I have driven.

Ian

[kyleN20]

yeah, it dose suck how much gas cost for you boys over the lake, i bet i could get my car, or even a 540 for dirt, but then again, when i watch a show like top gear, and they say the price of cars over there, its always so much more then we pay here, whats the deal with that?

[tony2beemers]

yeah, it dose suck how much gas cost for you boys over the lake, i bet i could get my car, or even a 540 for dirt, but then again, when i watch a show like top gear, and they say the price of cars over there, its always so much more then we pay here, whats the deal with that?

I suppose buying a new auto in the UK is more expensive than the price of the same auto in the USA but second hand cars have come down a great deal lately. Especially if buying privately and not from a dealer. Take a look at the price of some of the E39's on UK's e bay see what you think.

I bought my E34 520SE with 54000 miles on the clock almost 5 years ago at a cost of £8,800 ($15,000 U.S.) from a dealer. Get this, the $hits would'nt even service it for me (it had only one light left). When i actually went to collect it, the 5 green diodes were displayed. The salesman told me that he only thought that the mechanic must have serviced it and so stamped the book as Inspection 11 having been completed. And would you believe it, I let him get away with it. Dunno why. Maybe it was because it was my first BMW.
These guys think they can take the pi$$.

I had it looked at by a mechanic who works for a well respected BMW agency. First thing he spotted was that the wiper arms were'nt original BMW parts, something cheap from an outfit called Champions. The guy got me a pair of proper ones and fitted them for £60 ($103).

I needed the radio code, the dealer never had it so i contacted the previous owner. I was amazed when he called to see me and presented me with a spare set of keys and told me the history of it. He is a chartered accountant and told me had owned it for 5 years. He had originally bought it off the dealership I had bought it from. he had traded it in for £5,500 ($9,468 U.S.)

He told me that the car was all orginal when he had traded it in. He was livid when he realised how much profit they had made on the auto, and this is why. He had paid them £30,000 ($51,600 U.S) for a new E39 and the mean bastards would'nt even supply him with a set of floor mats.

I would'nt buy a screw off that shower of $hite, who consider themselves the only place to buy a BMW from. I've had a few folk ask me for a reference since and i am pleased to say that i have completely put them off going near them.
By the way Jeremy Clarkeson, who used to host Top Gear (don't know that he does now) once got bollocked for describing the interior of BMW's as being likened to a German staff officers car. He's still not too kean on them. Dunno why most Brits like em.
Rant over.