The Official Bring A Trailer (BaT) Thread

[0-60motorsports]

I doubt title changes hands... something about the winner's prior bidding history is similarly ridiculous, or at least it seems that way to me.

I also don't expect title to change hands here... https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...z-cl65-amg-68/

It's all become absolute cinema.

maw

303k for that! HELL NO.

[maw1124]

I doubt title changes hands... something about the winner's prior bidding history is similarly ridiculous, or at least it seems that way to me.

I also don't expect title to change hands here... https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...z-cl65-amg-68/

It's all become absolute cinema.

maw

[oceansize]

Man that is a weird one, I'm definitely not paying $50k for this car under any circumstances. I kind of understand the thought process, but not on that car. Which is to say I would spend another 10 to 20k to get something with less mileage and in better overall condition.

[M3LSB.Gab]

Car goes for $50K! Shows what three motivated bidders can do. And then a Laguna over Laguna pops up: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-121/

even at 30k USD it would be overpaying. Underbody condition, weird carfax, accident, high mileage.

[0-60motorsports]

Car goes for $50K! Shows what three motivated bidders can do. And then a Laguna over Laguna pops up: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-121/

The Canadian Carfax is provided in the gallery below and shows the aforementioned damage, theft, and collision claims.

[simon_c]

$50K?? I guess premium mods can bring all the money. Crazy

[BlueBimmers]

Car goes for $50K! Shows what three motivated bidders can do. And then a Laguna over Laguna pops up: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-121/

[ChapterM3]

Surprised I'm the first to post this one - sounds like a good seller too, YOHB? https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-194/

That car seems to have lived outside in east coast winters and also near the ocean with that kind of rust underneath - my uncle's e60 had rust like that which lived by the ocean its entire life. That rust looks like something straight out of car mechanic simulator haha

[maw1124]

Surprised I'm the first to post this one - sounds like a good seller too, YOHB? https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-194/

Accident car, rusty AF... the rest is piggy makeup.

maw

[discoelk]

That rust is really gonna hurt the value even if it's mostly cosmetic. It's weird how clean the subframe plate areas look given all that corrosion.

[stephen]

Surprised I'm the first to post this one - sounds like a good seller too, YOHB? https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-194/

I'm curious what it'll end at. Awesome spec and tastefully modded but the rust gives me pause.

[BlueBimmers]

Surprised I'm the first to post this one - sounds like a good seller too, YOHB? https://bringatrailer.com/listing/20...-m3-coupe-194/

[maw1124]

There's an interesting fchat thread on that seller

My Wharton grad buddies would be appalled, but yeah...

maw

[stephen]

Still a baby... get it while critical parts are somewhat still available.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/2002-bmw-m3-convertible-169/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign =Model_Update

maw

EDIT... I've pretty much decided these seats are never going to be redone in factory material, and that's probably a good thing -- given the production numbers any "originality premium" is probably illusory. And I'm not sure I want more of that material, given my life with it so far.

There's an interesting fchat thread on that seller

[bavarian3]

I daily a Macan GTS these days with the PDK . . .. this was my first daily that wasn't a manual, ever. It was a sort of my version of getting practical, as my wife hated driving my 6MT 340i, and life meant I was needing a hitch and room in the back more and more often. In a way I was dreading it, but honestly, for a daily at this point in my life I don't miss the manual at all. Part of that is the PDK, it's really amazingly fun to rip through the gears with the paddles, throttle blips on downshifts and all that. I have a Cobb flash and an AWE exhaust, which help. But it's given me newfound respect for what a proper dual clutch paddle setup can feel like.

I also race E30s in lemons and champ car, those are obviously manuals. There are certainly times when navigating a corner in heavy traffic where also coordinating the heel/toe is the last thing I need to deal with! So I can see the perspective that less involvement in the shifting process means more mental time to focus on braking zones, turn-in, the line etc.

All that said, there was never any question my E46 would be a 6MT.

Some cars these days manual just doesn't feel as correct on. I ripped on a GT3RS at one of those Vegas track experience providers. The car was so insanely fast and grippy I feel like manual would have been out of place.

I haven't driven a G80, but even on an F80 M3 the manual felt slightly out of place for some reason. That rubbery ZF feel doesn't help, but they just have a ton of power.