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KillHour posted:Goddamn, BMW. $4100 for xDrive on the M3/M4? What are you smoking? Bowls full of the finest coca leaf for those prices. They will sell tons of them.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:ok the dealer is never gonna give you poo poo like that for free, because why would the parts department give you something for free when the sales guy hosed up? I’ve gotten what five, six BMWs from the same dealer. First two from the OG dude and the rest from the guy who took over. This is over a 22 year period. No other local dealer here can compare. This is in SoCal, land of BMW dealers on every other street corner. Getting a great deal on a BMW is now easy for me given the relationship I’ve built with that dealer. I keep trying to look closer and nobody will play ball. I was at my local yesterday for the recall software update. Two M3s in the showroom. $15k dealer markup on each, and all the tacky added on accessories, too. gently caress that poo poo.
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Apr 23, 2021 03:59
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Blue On Blue posted:a few of the BMW dealers in my area have switched to 'no negotiation pricing' or some bullshit I’ve seen that as well. I’ve always shopped the deal I get from Greg to as many other dealers as possible, and only the CCA guy in Santa Barbara would come close. Yes, I could in theory save a few hundred bucks someplace but I haven’t figured out how to actually do that. The no haggle pricing only works when the entire brand adopts it. In other news, I went to my local indy coffee place and when I got out of the car someone getting into theirs next to me said “that sounds like a beast” and it’s the first nice thing someone said to me or my car in a long time. Im half way into the lease and at less than 10k miles. I need to go on some drives.
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Apr 23, 2021 04:58
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They can’t update the M2 because then it would be so much more betterer than the newfangled M4.
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Apr 30, 2021 05:36
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KillHour posted:Not when you find one sitting on the lot for 6 months and they offer you 30% off MSRP to please just someone take it already. this is the way I got my M5
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May 1, 2021 21:11
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Residency Evil posted:They're doing 30% off M5s!? It was sitting in the basement of the dealer from March to October. It had like 20 miles on it. I shopped the price around and I was laughed at or hung up on by pretty much every dealer in LA, OC, Riverside, and San Diego counties. One guy said he’d match but then did t have a car to sell. Oops.
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May 1, 2021 21:22
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Crunchy Black posted:Welcome 2 da Hockenheim club, brother. He needs the sunroof so he has a place for his gigantic erection every time he drives it
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Jun 1, 2021 04:02
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KillHour posted:G8x tech documents are out: Is it a mod if they “fall off” or get “lost”?
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Jun 8, 2021 05:11
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That portfolio will outperform everything but meme stocks, it’s a solid play.
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Jun 18, 2021 06:12
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rscott posted:https://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/d/avon-2012-bmw-alpina-b7-lwb/7339408672.html Didn’t Hoovie have one of these? And it was basically importable to repair or get parts for so it was literally junk?
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KillHour posted:Por que no los dos? I didn’t realize LOD pop-in was still a thing in modern racing car vidya gamez
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Residency Evil posted:Hrm, so for only $1200/month, I can force everyone else to look at that grill? Crunchy Black posted:Caddy Blackwing looks like a good trade before the M2 hits 10k miles... I’m late to this party but this is my M5C payment. But I’m also an idiot. Too bad the CT5V Blackwing will be gone by the time my least is up late next year.
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Aug 15, 2021 02:49
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KillHour posted:Not anymore. You used to be able to find ~8-10% off M5s through a broker but now it looks like they're at about 2% KillHour posted:Not anymore. You used to be able to find ~8-10% off M5s through a broker but now it looks like they're at about 2% Yeah, 22 months ago the world was different and I got a great deal on the M5. 14 months from now who knows what things will be like.
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Did the Ultimate Driving Event in LA today. The half day car handling clinic deal, M3/M4. Three different stations, hard braking practice (at different speeds, straight and turning), emergency lane change/obstacle avoidance, and a short autox course (this was with the M4, the others were M3s). Hot as balls, but a fun event. The braking practice was pretty easy, good to get used to the cars. I did that first. You always know that speed leads to longer braking times, but doing it back to back in a repeated way really hits it home. Did that first. The lance change thing was fun (I did it last, wish I did it before the autox). Started at 30 and ramped to 60/65 (if they let you). My first attempt at 60 I took out a whole line of cones, got some good coaching and absolutely nailed my last run at 65. Happens real fast speed, basically full throttle, lift off and turn the wheel as fast as you can around and back and hard on the brakes. The autoX, that was both fun and a learning experience. Two practice runs and two timed runs. Swap drivers between each. My first timed run (basically 1 3/4 laps) he didn’t remind me to hit the stop box until I was turning past it. Oops. Got good coaching through my second practice run. Third practice run put up the fourth fastest time of the day (I’m a big goon, the three fastest guys were all a foot shorter than me and less than half my mass, don’t judge). Then things got spicy. The other driver who I was swapping with came off her first time run. As she’s opening the door and talking to the coach, now I didn’t catch all of it but it was something like, “you know when you are masturbating and you are coming really hard and you just keep going and you don’t want it to stop, it was kind of like that I love this car, no really like when you are masturbating you know what I’m talking about right.” Yeah, 20 something platinum blond from Beverly Hills meets middle aged midwestern driving instructor. His brain just about fell out of his head. The M4s did have the carbon buckets with the crotch bump, so maybe it hit that nice gal in all the right places. So I go for my final lap, the instructor is beet red and was basically ‘you know what you did wrong last time, you got a half second in the first corner and full one in the second you can make up good luck’ and yeah, I ate some cone on that run. I pull back in and he said ‘I told you what to do, but you know you could just do that instead.’ But I definitely learned a lot about car handling and staying focused today.
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KillHour posted:Have you done performance driving before or was this your first time? I’ve not done this specific event before. Did an early version of the BMW event at Thermal before the facility was complete. Ultimate drive a few times, with different configurations of events. A few Porsche events and a corvette one at Fonatana speedway (that one was excellent! C7 launch event.) doesn’t take much for me to go burn up someone else’s gas and tires. Totally owning my being a dork today, but figured someone might enjoy the write up.
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Sep 22, 2021 05:30
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KillHour posted:You should do an HPDE and get on track. It's worth it. I asked about the upcoming track day at Laguna Seca and the BMW people there kind of poo poo talked it. I might sign up for the two day thermal event, or head back to Porsche since it’s less of a drive. Any specific recommendations other than the big commercial ones?
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Sep 22, 2021 05:54
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Cojawfee posted:"Here are the instructions, the factory says it takes one hour." Before engine assembly and marriage, sure.
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Oct 11, 2021 06:02
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Anyone have info/pics from the M track day at Laguna Seca today? Sounds like an autox M2 driver had a problem and buried the pedal through the guard shack?
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Nov 7, 2021 04:13
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Bape Culture posted:I will come and burn down any new m car for absolutely no charge My M5 is way behind on lease miles. Come on down for a driiiive (SoCal)
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Bape Culture posted:I’m sick of bmw. Someone buy me a gt3 That’s a funny way to spell Taycan GTS Sport Turismo
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thealphabetsez posted:It’s almost as though they are BMW’s Cayenne… I’d look at Porsche’s version of the Q7/X7 And then the Taycan Sport Turismo or whatever the wagon version is called these days
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Jan 14, 2022 05:51
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rscott posted:The E82 interior is fine as long as you never put anyone in the back seat, I'm 6'4 I have no problems but my seat is like 3" from the rear bench, like I can't think it's less roomy than a Miata Miata’s are after all famous for their rear seat leg room. I am also 6’4”. I have kids and my 5er makes me wonder if I go back to an X5 or get an X7 or gasp shock iX. Of course I want the i4 but I know it’s too small back there.
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I, uhh, was invited to preorder an i7. And I’m like seriously considering it.
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Bad news: the new 7er is too long for my plebeian garage. Good news: I found out the iX m60 is going to exist soon ish. The XM is tempting but no thanks. I’m done with BMW v8s.
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A lowered Cullinan? I like where this is going.
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I like the i4. It I fear it has an even smaller back seat than my 5er. The i7 is too big for my garage and so the loving stupid siren song of the iXM60 is now singing at me. Like I want an allocation. gently caress.
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If y’all want to argue or rage, point it my way. The iX M60 I ordered in what, September?, finally is in the system and has a production slot in week 8. Its me, I’m part of the problem. It might even arrive before they insist on my overextended lease car back….
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The previous gen ACC from BMW was not great, especially the lane keeping bit. The newer stuff is really good, and the graphics that show what the system sees is basically a copycat of the Tesla style view. Kia/Hyundai/Genesis LKAS is still better, but now by a slim margin. The hands off traffic assist is great if you live in a place with traffic as well. Again, newer gen much improved over the older one.
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As much as part of me will miss the M5, I’m stupidly happy with the iX M60. Definitely heavy but it really does feel like the future of BMW and I really like it. And hands down the best car audio system I’ve ever heard. And I had a brother who spent a decade doing custom car stereos back when such a thing was fashionable. The stuff like ‘My Modes’ that sound super cheesy on paper are actually kind of fun. Relax mode turns on seat massaging and soothing colors and noises and when you step on the throttle it sounds like a choir of angels singing. It is entirely surreal. To try once. Then never touch it again probably. Yes, I’m contradicting myself on the internet. Sue me. Weird to wrap my head around the fact that stop and go traffic is more efficient than SoCal highway speeds, and at least the sort of self driving stuff is great in traffic. I’m also lucky enough that my local utility paid for my 48amp home charger, and install. And there are other groups giving out rebates so I’ll literally make hundreds of dollars just for getting a home L2 charger. Charging at home so far is a revelation. And the whole preconditioning thing is great. Tell the car when you want to be ready to leave and the battery and cabin are at the temp you want, ready to unplug and hit the road. Range so far is a zero concern. Not sure if I’ll take it for a week in Big Bear full of people and stuff, for a car with an ‘official’ rating of <300 miles it looks like reality is 330-350. As for driving. It’s different, coming from an M5. But it’s nice. Hard to decouple the driving part from the rest of the experience since it is so totally quiet and comfortable. It feels heavy, and the brake pedal feel takes some getting used to, and it certainly does not stop like the M5. But being able to slam 5 people’s heads into the headrest at any speed in a literal instant will never not be fun. Feels planted and connected to the road while the air ride smooths everything out. Whereas the M5 was like, “you want 9/10s on this freeway cloverleaf, good luck trying to find it before you soil yourself, boy racer” and iX is like “woah woah, let’s not try to rewrite newtonian physics when changing directions or stopping, but rewrite the rules of time and space in a forward direction as you wish but know that my safety systems cannot react faster than you can rear end the car in front of you”. Happy to answer questions or feel free to offer a diagnosis as to what kind of psychosis I have based on all these words. But yes, I’m the eye dee ten tee who turned their M5 into an iX.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:which M5 did you have because i am too lazy to go look through your post history 2019 comp. Was strangely optioned and had sat in the basement of the dealer for six months and I got a stupid good deal on it with a really bad (high) residual on the lease.
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