"E90M3" (e90m3)
08/08/2018 at 15:41 • Filed to: green cars
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"E90M3" (e90m3)
08/08/2018 at 15:41 • Filed to: green cars | 0
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I have two cars an E92 328i and an E90 M3, in Titanium Silver Metallic and Space Grey Metallic, respectively. Obvisoubly neither of these cars are green, why? Well, lets start with the M3 because that’s the easier one to explain.
When I was buying my M3 I knew I at least wanted an LCI model; without getting into too many details the LCI has a number of improvements over the 2008 model. Despite this, the color choices for both pre-LCI and LCI cars were almost identical with the one exception of Space Grey Metallic replacing Sparkling Graphite Metallic during the E90 LCI. Which means your choice of colors was limited to:
A green is not among the choices. Since I was still in college when E90 production ended, I wasn’t ever able to go to BMW and whisper “BMW Individual” to get an E90 M3 in any shade of green I wanted. Hence why I don’t have a green E90 M3.
Now the 3 series is a little trickier.
So you could get a shade of green on the E92 2007 and 2008:
Likewise, after the E90 LCI, in 2009, you could get a green, Tasman Green Metallic for 2009 and 2010:
However, after the E92 LCI, in 2011, green was removed from the options list.
Let’s go ahead and get Tasman Green out of the way. While a Tasman Green E92 may exist in theory, I don’t ever recall either seeing one in person or for sale. I’m sure they’re out there, but they have to be out there in minuscule numbers, so good luck finding one.
As far as Deep Green, I’ve seen some in person and some for sale, but you couldn’t get it after 2008 and I wasn’t putting up with CCC idrive to have a green car. Plus green wasn’t the most popular color, so the number of manual green E92s out there is, once again, very limited. Additionally, you couldn’t get an M-Sport until 2009, a year after you could get a Deep Green E92.
So basically, I couldn’t get a green E90 and I couldn’t find a Deep Green E92, so I’m driving boring color BMWs.
TheStiggyOne
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 15:57 |
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Cadillac CTS-V2 “Evolution Green”, 2011 only:
From this listing . Not exactly an eye-popping shade, that’s for sure....
Production infos:
Sedan - 14 / 2085 in 2011, 14 / 10765 overall
Coupe - 36 / 3224 in 2011 , 36 / 8567 overall
Wagon - 12 / 398 in 2011, 12 / 1767 overall
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E90M3
> TheStiggyOne
08/08/2018 at 15:59 |
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Not even sure I would classify that as a green myself. It looks really grey, maybe it’s just the photo though.
Shankems
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 16:01 |
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The one time I’ve had the opportunity to order green , I found that the green was so dark that is was black under anything less than the equatorial sun. Did not order.
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E90M3
> Shankems
08/08/2018 at 16:04 |
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What car?
TheRealBicycleBuck
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 16:06 |
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My green truck:
A solution for you :
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E90M3
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/08/2018 at 16:06 |
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Yeah, I’m good, not going to plasti dip my cars.
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TheRealBicycleBuck
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 16:16 |
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Ok. Here are some other options:
:)
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Shankems
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 16:57 |
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Chevy SS
CB
> E90M3
08/08/2018 at 19:08 |
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I love green cars, but I think I went too green.
e90.ty
> E90M3
10/23/2018 at 12:41 |
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I have a manual e90 in tasman green
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E90M3
> e90.ty
10/23/2018 at 12:43 |
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Looks fantastic. Unable to find one when I was looking. Plus I see yours is AWD, which is something I wouldn’t have wanted.
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e90.ty
> E90M3
10/24/2018 at 10:53 |
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yeah me as well, it was the only one I could find that was manual and tasman there are always tradeoffs. Also, put style 400m wheels off a m sport 435 replacing the oxidized 284's that came with it.