"E92M3" (E46M3)
09/26/2015 at 00:51 • Filed to: None
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"E92M3" (E46M3)
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I remember when I was a teen (1990’s), and my dad would say new cars are too complicated, had too much to go wrong, and were too much trouble to work on. I used to think he was just old fashioned, and not “with the times”. Older cars did nothing for me. I only cared about the latest and greatest.
After driving several new cars recently, I find myself not really liking any of them that much. I got to drive every ///M BMW currently makes, a new Cayenne GTS, and a few more less exciting vehicles. They are all missing something though. Sure some of them look great asthetically, but the driving experience is just not all there. They’re too big, they don’t communicate enough, they don’t sound good. Sure they have turbos, and they get to 60mph faster than supercars did a decade earlier, but they lack feel. Drive by wire is probably my biggest complaint. Almost all have a delay when you first press the throttle from a stop before anything happens.. I can’t feel the suspension load up. Out of all of them I liked the M235i the most, even though it has one of the worst interiors in the group. I miss my E46. I want to hear that NA engine climb the revs, know everything the suspension is doing, and feel that nimbleness again. I think I’d be perfectly happy with an E46 M3 or a 964 to drive for decades.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 00:57 |
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AMEN!
PowderHound
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 01:00 |
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I think I would refuse to buy anything newer than uhhhhhh 05? if I were in the market for a new to me car
Birddog
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 01:02 |
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We’re about the same age. Don’t worry, there’s a cure for this. One completely irrational purchase is all you need.
I prescribe one British Sports Car built before 1973.
RallyWrench
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 01:32 |
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Sounds like we’re about the same age. Our dads weren’t wrong, and now we’re at that point. Every generation reaches it. The E46 is a decent example, one of the last fairly undiluted “Driver’s cars” they made, built when we were younger, more impressionable. My shop services a lot of modern European machines, but my daily is 14 years older than I am for a reason. It’s stone simple, purely mechanical. The last thing I want to do at the end of the day is plug my own damn car in for diagnosis.
Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 01:53 |
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For me it’s the interiors. The plastics in a 30 year old Tercel felt better to me than the plastics in my work Tacoma. Was also recently driving a [not a Toyota car but name withheld to avoid ruffling feathers] and everything felt cheap as hell! Unsanded plastic edges, panels that don’t quite line up, rattling... This was a brand new car! I think they distract you with a bunch of useless options and the promise of safety so you don’t actually absorb how cost-cut the interior is on some models.
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E92M3
> Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo
09/26/2015 at 10:46 |
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Yes! They look decent when you first open the door, but once you’re inside you realize they are like those “no glue required”, snap together models they had when we were kids. They never looked as good as the picture in real life. If you have ever remove a piece, you’re guaranteed to break some of the plastic tabs, and it will never go back together the same. Leather isn’t the same quality as 10 years ago either. Sure these were test cars, and they had more people (of all sizes) getting in and out in a few weeks than most cars see in a year, but they were worn, scuffed, had finishes peeling off, etc. In 10 years they will look absolute shit inside.
DipodomysDeserti
> E92M3
09/26/2015 at 12:54 |
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Yep. My ‘84 325e had a more solid interior than my dads M235i, and it came with a real LSD which his did not.