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She's only gone and done it - Collection day

tweeky687 said:
sars said:
Nanu said:
Look a lot better on my Frozen Grey me thinks.
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I very nearly chose frozen grey, as it's a no cost option, but my instincts screamed black and I'm really pleased with the choice.
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I`m thinking about the black badges on mine
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I'm not sure you can purchase these from BMW, as they are not a specified option, rather a standard fitment for the Handschalter Pack. I can buy replacements by giving the VIN.
 
sars said:
Nanu said:
ori said:
Wonder how black badges would look on purple car. ;)
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Look a lot better on my Frozen Grey me thinks.
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I very nearly chose frozen grey, as it's a no cost option, but my instincts screamed black and I'm really pleased with the choice.
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A great choice nevertheless. I am sure it looks even better with you behind the wheel, top down on a country road giving it beans. :thumbsup:
 
[ref]Nanu[/ref], I came across a frozen grey M40i on the M5 on my way home, it is a lovely shade :thumbsup:
 
sars said:
[ref]Nanu[/ref], I came across a frozen grey M40i on the M5 on my way home, it is a lovely shade :thumbsup:
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One issue which may be the colour or coincidence but it seems to attract a lot of greenfly? Leave it on the drive for a couple of hours and there are always quite a few on the bonnet and its almost as bad a black to keep looking clean.
 
Nanu said:
One issue which may be the colour or coincidence but it seems to attract a lot of greenfly? Leave it on the drive for a couple of hours and there are always quite a few on the bonnet and its almost as bad a black to keep looking clean.
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I think it's just the weather, as I have noticed millions of greenfly around in the last couple of weeks.
Don't think there are many grey plants, so unlikely they are attracted to your car specifically. :D
 
I have a few grey plants, it may be a coincidence that they just happen to be on or close to my garden fence which is painted grey?
 
gorgeous car, congrats I'm going on two months with mine now.

I'm curious is the little "m" badging on the sides in front of the doors only on european cars? My US car doesn't have it.
 
[ref]Zvezdah1[/ref], not sure if it's just the US that doesn't have them on the side, a question for members in other countries say Australia or Canada
 
Zvezdah1 said:
I'm curious is the little "m" badging on the sides in front of the doors only on european cars? My US car doesn't have it.
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The US has it right, then, as no BMW should have 'M' badges unless it's a fully blown 'M' (with an S series engine). The G29 has a B series, so shouldn't have any 'M' badges.

I saw a an 'M' 440d the other day. I mean.....seriously? An M diesel? Marketing gone mad.

And we could go down the rabbit hole of Porsche and their pure electric 'Turbo' and 'turbo S' monikers. Makes a mockery of everything IMO.
 
Pondrew said:
Zvezdah1 said:
I'm curious is the little "m" badging on the sides in front of the doors only on european cars? My US car doesn't have it.
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The US has it right, then, as no BMW should have 'M' badges unless it's a fully blown 'M' (with an S series engine). The G29 has a B series, so shouldn't have any 'M' badges.

I saw a an 'M' 440d the other day. I mean.....seriously? An M diesel? Marketing gone mad.
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And I bet there were a few grumbles when in the second half of the 1970's someone said during a BMW boardmeeting, let's expand our Motorsport division and make a road car. If they had only kept doing what they were doing, what they were founded to do, we would not have had the M1 and then the M3. It's called progress.

And before you ask, I don't really care either way, The board of BMW AG ultimately decide what is and what isn't and I doubt they will lose any sleep over what we think.
 
sars said:
It's called progress.
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TBH I think it's called marketing and realising profit margins.
I don't care, either. I just don't like the 'dumbing down for profit' which goes on everywhere these days.

On another (more sociable) note, I would like to drive a manual B58. I can imagine it is quite good fun. :wink:
 
Pondrew said:
sars said:
It's called progress.
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TBH I think it's called marketing and realising profit margins.
I don't care, either. I just don't like the 'dumbing down for profit' which goes on everywhere these days.

On another (more sociable) note, I would like to drive a manual B58. I can imagine it is quite good fun. :wink:
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You’re both right, imho, if bmw didn’t make a healthy profit we wouldn’t have a Zed car, yet dumbing down a motorsport section of said company seems wrong doesn’t it. :)

But I’ll have to side with Sars here, without progress which equals profits all that would be on offer are boring slab sided A to B cars…. :driving:

Not that my opinion means shit obvs…. :lol:
 
And I miss the days of the days of the numbers on the back actually equating to engine size. Things change.
The m40i has a lot of motorsport stuff in it like suspension and brakes and parts of the engine too.

On a lighter note….people seem to really like the purple…..just a bugger to keep clean. The. Blue seemed to stay cleaner.
 
ori said:
And I miss the days of the days of the numbers on the back actually equating to engine size. Things change.
The m40i has a lot of motorsport stuff in it like suspension and brakes and parts of the engine too.

On a lighter note….people seem to really like the purple…..just a bugger to keep clean. The. Blue seemed to stay cleaner.
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I don’t…. :poke: :evil: :wink: :wink:
 
I quite like Thundernight, just not enough to buy one, the one on here with the sport plus pack and 799M alloys is lush.

Anyway I've been considering what Pondy, stated that it's just marketing. well isn't that what the M brand is. It's not like you can enter any variant of an M3 into race, do 20 laps of Silverstone and drive home again. It has been fettled with the road in mind, not motorsport, and they charge you a premium over the standard product for the privilege, if that isn't marketing I don't know what is.

And then there's Porsche, who have perfected this con to such a fine art that you'd spend twice as much on a GT3 and never track it :headbang:

As for the B58 manual, it is truly wonderful, I'd forgotten how many little pleasures there are with a manual transmission. Turning off a roundabout and holding the gear, savoring that grunt and howl as rpm rises. I confess to going over 6,000 rpm once or twice whilst trying to be careful for the first 1000 miles.

There are some drawback though, just like my first Z4, there is a resonance point under load around 2500 rpm that is slightly annoying when cruising on the motorway, it just happens to be at 70 mph! I do find the gearing unnecessarily low in sixth, about 2000 rpm and 70 would have been perfect.
 
john-e89 said:
Well you prefer coupes too so that cancels out anything rational Mr T….
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Probably does TBF - I don't think Toyota offer Thundernight paint on the G29 Coupe they badge as a Supra. :lol:
 
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