"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin)
10/05/2015 at 23:55 • Filed to: None
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"Carbon Fiber Sasquatch" (turbopumpkin)
10/05/2015 at 23:55 • Filed to: None | 3
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The lease special offer on a new BMW 320i forces you to stay under $35,400. I dare any one of you to build a car with any sort of options to stay under that number.
I live in Ohio, so all I really wanted was heated seats and the sport package with a manual. For added extravagance, I optioned folding rear seats for the trunk. Yeah, $36,970. Ridiculous, what’s the point of even having the special then?
coqui70
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:06 |
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Delete the sport package ... keep the heated seats and split rear seats, manual transmission:
MrDakka
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:14 |
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Can’t you just put those hand warmer things in your butt pockets so you have heated seats everywhere?
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MrDakka
> coqui70
10/06/2015 at 00:17 |
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I’m pretty sure the performance stripes gives you more benefits than the sport package
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Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> coqui70
10/06/2015 at 00:19 |
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Yup, two options for under $1000, that’s all you get lol
MLGCarGuy
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:21 |
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$295 over, but you get more smiles per gallon.
PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:22 |
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you know for $35,400 you can buy a
very
nice 2008 335i, AND an E36 M3, and still have money left over for mods
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Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
10/06/2015 at 00:29 |
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Oh yeah, definitely. Or a FoST or FiST with lots of money left over.
I just can’t understand their logic with the lease offer if you can’t have more than two options! By the time you get it optioned to be worth having, you might as well get the 328i
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Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> MLGCarGuy
10/06/2015 at 00:31 |
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Oh yeah, the better car for sure and the lease offers aren’t absurd either. You get to go to $37,900 for a 228i
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PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:46 |
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eh. brand snobs. it’s the ultimate badge-snob machine.
BMW used to be great, but not so anymore. AMG, RS, and V have surpassed them,
Oh how the mighty have fallen
ianmkerr
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 00:50 |
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the 3 series is nice but I think the 320i is kind of pointless. Only 180 hp at 35000$ before anything. There are plenty of cars with turbo 4s that have way more power and cost less. Golf r comes to mind. If I recall it goes under 90mph in the quarter mile. That’s super slow especially when 6 cylinder accord goes 101 through the quarter in a car and driver test. A used 10 cylinder m5 is less expensive and so much faster. plus it has that dumb looking tiny single exhaust pipe to one side of the car. The mazda 3 has dual exhausts to each side and starts under 20000$
Tareim - V8 powered
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 03:53 |
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can you not negotiate with a dealer to knock off some money down to the special lease price with the spec you want?
LongbowMkII
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 07:34 |
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Subaru WRX STi. Weeeee!
Van Man, rocks the Man Van
> MLGCarGuy
10/06/2015 at 07:43 |
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Glad they finally fixed the manual transmission glitch.
nermal
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 11:36 |
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The lease specials are loss leaders. No different than whatever doorbuster sales retailers have for the day after Thanksgiving for “limited quantities”.
DerW220
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/06/2015 at 12:01 |
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Base F30s are pieces of shit. No thanks. They’re worth $10k at the most to me.
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DerW220
> PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power
10/06/2015 at 12:03 |
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Yep, they have screwed up. Pre-2007 designed BMW is best.
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Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
> ianmkerr
10/07/2015 at 22:23 |
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Oh I know it’s almost exclusively for brand snobs but I do personally like the idea of the Jalopnik special BMW and I just would like heated seats for here in Ohio on my next car.
I was just floored at how difficult they make it to get a decently trimmed 320i, kinda defeats the whole purpose of considering them if a Focus ST or GTI is beating it in almost every category lol
Nick George
> Carbon Fiber Sasquatch
10/19/2015 at 22:32 |
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I bought my F30 328i CPO, about 1 year old, for $32k . It has M-Sport, tech, a sunroof, and nothing else. I’ve put about $10k in mods, including most of the M Performance offerings and Dinantronics Stage 1, and am still only about $42k into it. For what it’s worth, I’m still way under the base price of an equivalent 335i and am having way more fun with it. If anybody asks me, I always recommend CPO, as it’s the best of both worlds.
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