Correct choice. For the budget, certainly, and kerwhite striking!

You bloody great misleader about your track experience

Am looking for a black grill: which did you get?

Don't suppose you'll swap wheels ...
(my bright chrome ones gotta go back to black)

edit: needs 'M3 DNB'
or 'M3 4 DNB'? might be less £££

 

I’ve seen very few cars on 18’s, most are spec’ed with 19’s, so I specifically wanted 18’s just to be different. Should also help the ride/handling and save me a few £££ when the time comes for new rubber.

It's an MY 2010 car with DCT and EDC. Dealer ordered the grills, cost about £70.

I'm more used to this type of gearbox now, Kathryn having the DSG in the Titty. The box in the M is so much smoother though.

 

Great choice, very capable. Especially for you and your touring escapades, when's the next one?

 

Love it.

Want one.

My local dealer is trying to shift one just like that at the moment and are offering a good deal one. I kept well away from it when I popped in yesterday as I really should be thinking about downgrading not upgrading

 

Agree about the 18s, had them on me tin top and they do help with the ride. You can explore the EDC when you master the DCT on track! I like the mean look too, lots of black, emphasises the look. White will scrub up nicely Touring in hot climes - and for us that's anywhere east of Dover - the roof was often up for comfort anyway. Really it's a lot of car for the money and £10k-£20k under the equivalent AM and Porsche offerings. Not that Stuttgart do a V8

 

Seems a good choice if you got on with your ZM
Look forward to hearing how yo get on with it!

 

I feel a nw meet coming on

 

the best colour

 

Glad you approve

No Euro trips planned this year. To be honest I've pretty much done all I want to do and am now more then happy enjoying "other areas of Britain , We are heading up to Skye for the weekend in Oct, so looking forward to that. Think that will be our 6th trip north of the border this year.

I did love the MR but felt I needed to try other stuff before I was too old/skint to enjoy them.

What I was happy about yesterday was the fuel conumption (not many people say that about the M3). Just driving around, enjoying the new car experience, I got nearly 28mpg in 140 miles. I know this is gonna drop when I start enjoying the car properly but, it's nice to know you can get "reasonable" mpg when driving normally.

I remember when I got the S2000 there was talk of the lack of torque from the high revving engine (max power at 8300rpm). They said the same about the 3.2 straight six in the MR (max power at 7900rpm). It’s the same story with the M3 (max power at 8300rpm), but I guess it’s all relative. I do love the split personality of this type of engine; happy to tootle one minute and, become a racer the next.

As with the engine in the MR, the last of the naturally aspirated, properly engineered, straight sixes, the V8 in the M3 is another impressive piece of engineering I wanted to experience, before we see turbos take over the world.

 

Tidy... Nice colour too. These are a bit of a sleeper i think, maybe less so woth the carbon roof