Craigslist Find Thread

[VisorM3]

I'm open to almost any color but damn... that is truly horrible. I didn't even notice that thing.

haha yeah man I'm the same, I like mixed color combos but this is too much!

Haha wow, gotta say that's one I've never seen taking the crown away from phoenix with imola.

loll seriously


PS: phoenix with imola doesn't seem too bad lol

[jet_dogg]

Haha wow, gotta say that's one I've never seen taking the crown away from phoenix with imola.

[oceansize]

^^^ got distracted by that horrible spec next to it, imola red on lsb interior???

I'm open to almost any color but damn... that is truly horrible. I didn't even notice that thing.

[jet_dogg]

As someone who's seen the Techno Violet in person it actually looks gorgeous on the E46 and the interior is mint. I'm friends with the previous owner and he did a complete rebuild/reseal on the motor- all new gaskets, bearings, oil pump, oil filter housing, vanos bulletproofed, etc. It's damn near perfect. If I had $50k to spend on an E46 that wouldn't be my FIRST choice but its certainly in the top 5-- mileage be damned.

Shitty iPhone picture

This will be a new record if it sells for that but I'm sure it won't.

Ain't nobody paying new price for 123k mile m3 dems the fax.

[Inizes]

Superman spec

[VisorM3]

^^^ got distracted by that horrible spec next to it, imola red on lsb interior???

Techno Violet looks great but wow 123k miles, they are asking quite a lot for it, too much IMHO.

[MTiz]

As someone who's seen the Techno Violet in person it actually looks gorgeous on the E46 and the interior is mint. I'm friends with the previous owner and he did a complete rebuild/reseal on the motor- all new gaskets, bearings, oil pump, oil filter housing, vanos bulletproofed, etc. It's damn near perfect. If I had $50k to spend on an E46 that wouldn't be my FIRST choice but its certainly in the top 5-- mileage be damned.

Shitty iPhone picture

[jet_dogg]

jet_dogg different strokes I suppose. It's all preference based. But the desirability isn't always just based on rarity. Sometimes preferences just change over time. M texture was never liked or popular in period hence the low production numbers. But rarity aside I wouldn't change mine out for any other interior. I have a hard time believing people only want it because it's rare. Seems to me that It's simply more visually interesting, more modern (imo), and even more comfortable. I imagine many who have owned it feel similar.

An m texture car is valuable to me, simply because it's my favourite interior. I would struggle to own an m3 without it after having one tbh.

I'm not necessarily saying rare = desirable. M alcantara was dope, I wish I had ordered it but I don't feel terrible about it. I even considered cloth but in both instances only the inserts were as such and I hate leather bolsters only in a sports car (like tint lol).

[Thoglan]

M-texture is rare because it wasn’t on the order sheet. It was a hidden order option.

Not really. There's no such thing as a "hidden" option. It was a priority one option. Meaning it wasn't an option that the dealers could order. The reason for this was that the majority of early priority one orders specced full leather anyway, so it would probably be a loss for the dealers to order cars with f2at. Although it's true that dealers not being able to order it might have made it more rare, it was this way because it was already an unpopular option. And whether they could have ordered it or not probably wouldn't have changed the production numbers all that much.

The fact that it was a $1000 option (IIRC), leather was considered more premium at the time, and it was considered a bit ugly is what made it rare. It most certainly was on the order sheet lol, so long as the car was a customer ordered and sold car and not for a dealer inventory.

[Inizes]

jet_dogg different strokes I suppose. It's all preference based. But the desirability isn't always just based on rarity. Sometimes preferences just change over time. M texture was never liked or popular in period hence the low production numbers. But rarity aside I wouldn't change mine out for any other interior. I have a hard time believing people only want it because it's rare. Seems to me that It's simply more visually interesting, more modern (imo), and even more comfortable. I imagine many who have owned it feel similar.

An m texture car is valuable to me, simply because it's my favourite interior. I would struggle to own an m3 without it after having one tbh.

M-texture is rare because it wasn’t on the order sheet. It was a hidden order option.

[repoman89]

To each their own. I’d rock it on an E36 but it looks wrong on later cars to me for some reason. Maybe because it screams “90s”

[heinzboehmer]

Agreed, techno violet is awesome

[liam821]

blasphemous! TV looks fantastic on the e46

I gotta say, it's one of my favorite colors.

[fattycharged]

Maybe only 8 were made because it turns out that color actually looks terrible on the E46

blasphemous! TV looks fantastic on the e46

[Thoglan]

jet_dogg different strokes I suppose. It's all preference based. But the desirability isn't always just based on rarity. Sometimes preferences just change over time. M texture was never liked or popular in period hence the low production numbers. But rarity aside I wouldn't change mine out for any other interior. I have a hard time believing people only want it because it's rare. Seems to me that It's simply more visually interesting, more modern (imo), and even more comfortable. I imagine many who have owned it feel similar.

An m texture car is valuable to me, simply because it's my favourite interior. I would struggle to own an m3 without it after having one tbh.