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The S65 was BMW's last great achievement. Best $25-30k you can spend on a sports car. Nothing else even comes close.
Very true. And you can still find low-mile e92 M3s in the high 40s / low 50s. Although even in the last 4-6 months, the selection has shrunk. I know several F8X guys who have come back.
Originally Posted by robmypro
E46 M3. Looks awesome and dirt cheap.
I loved my E46 (though not as much as either of my E92s). But the low mile examples in top condition are getting harder to find and they often sell for serious coin. I expect we'll start to see this with the E92s soon, too.
Sure sounds like a low-mileage E92 M3 may be a good option for you. I know it would be used.... but it would sure tick a lot of your boxes.
-Andrew
Good recommendation. Love my E92. Added some Bilstein Clubsports, M-performance exhaust and other goodies, and the car is a phenom on the street, and sounds WAY better than any turbo car.
Get a brand new SS 1LE, optioned exactly as you want. It'll cane the M2 all day long, has an N/A engine, a great transmission, and a smaller, leaner body than the last Camaro.
Love it so much I have two...lol
270,000 km DD/track car (with intact rear subframe :P)
Car is same age as my youngest...both learned to drive standard on it.
I found the M2 to be ordinary, horror story interior - very over rated. BMW have not produced a decent M car in a long time. Not a great deal of point tuning a M3/M4 when they can't get the power down in stock form.
Whats the difference between a golf ball and a BMW - the golf ball can be driven 200 yards (my negative sentiment is due to my immediate family, which has 40 years of history with BMW - so much so I have never owned one - clearly others like them )
Lexus have some great DD offerings - comfortable, bullet proof and as refined as you want them to be. At the end of the day it probably comes down to how you use your daily. There's plenty to choose from these days.
i dislike the BMWs uninspiring dash with too few gauges and that horrible i-drive controller crap, personally Im sick of cars designed to look futuristic inside by using screens of some kind, gimme five gauges and a radio
I found the M2 to be ordinary, horror story interior - very over rated. BMW have not produced a decent M car in a long time. Not a great deal of point tuning a M3/M4 when they can't get the power down in stock form.
Whats the difference between a golf ball and a BMW - the golf ball can be driven 200 yards (my negative sentiment is due to my immediate family, which has 40 years of history with BMW - so much so I have never owned one - clearly others like them )
Lexus have some great DD offerings - comfortable, bullet proof and as refined as you want them to be. At the end of the day it probably comes down to how you use your daily. There's plenty to choose from these days.
A base everything Carrera would be an ideal daily. We can agree on that.
The OP's price range is at least 40k lower though.
I bought an manual M2 a few months ago as a DD, and love it. It's fun to drive in a different way than the GT3...you can drive it on the street at legal-ish speeds and it's fun. the GT3 is so capable it needs to approach arrest me speeds to get a rise.
I didn't cross shop with the Camaro, so i don't have any input there. i don't think you can go wrong with either! Just get the one that appeals to you.
I agree with others about the interior, it's pretty mediocre. i would have gladly paid another $5k for an interior upgrade option!
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