Cars We Drive! - Page 557

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Originally Posted by HRoi 

^ ditch the Grand Am and daily drive the m coupe. Life is too short

It's a down payment on a DB9, so I have to take some care with it. Anyway, my father's Grand Am has 270k+ miles on it, no problems, so I will run this one until it dies. I'd probably have to put Blizzak's on it to take it out in this crap anyway.

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Originally Posted by Blackhood 

I'm certain that they are outstanding cars, but the seemly unending love for M vehicles is a genuine anathema to me.

A genuine anathema, as if anathema was not strong enough; one of the worst words in the language, and a poor choice. What do you use for really horrible things?

I admit, that in four months in Washington D.C., having seen more than a hundred M3's in the first month, I was less impressed; but anathema is hard to stomache.

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Originally Posted by HRoi 

 

it's a relatively new thing but it's catching on. many automakers charge more for what is essentially the same amount of leather and the same man hours of work, i think (same amount of leather, same process, just a different color?), so that's one reason why it's not ubiquitous. also, car dealers are notoriously slow to change their ways so they stock their showrooms with the stuff that sold well traditionally.

regarding that particular color, i had contrast color black/coral red in my 135i and wanted to go with a similar shade in my M3. fox red looks quite a bit more orange than coral red, though. nothing wrong with it, and cheers if gnatty likes it, but that wasn't my cup of tea, so i went with boring all black

Somehow I missed that you had a 1-series.

I think that I have a particular love for contrast. I want a black suit with red stitching. When I was researching M Coupes, I found this spreadsheet someone had downloaded (I assume they made a ascript to ping BMW's website) that got the info on every M Coupe ever sold, which was only 2200 or so IIRC. By far, triple black was the most common; after that silver over double black, then Interlagos over double black; contrast interiors were so rare. I don't know; I love them. For a while I thought I'd buy a Jaguar XKR Portfolio edition that is blue over black inside. If they did it in the XKR coupe and not only the convertible I probably would have. I have black over a sort of taupe in my M -- not the best combo, certainly, but they do not offer enough colors.

~h

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