[Dannyrado]

Originally Posted by gIzzE

BIK tax is a fukin' joke, how can they charge the employee £854 a month for a car that costs £550 a month??!

Erm, to discourage us from buying M3s on the business maybe?? And to get us all into golf bluemotions and HDI citroens, works a treat really.

[gIzzE]

Not really though does it.

You just buy it yourself.

[TMP]

Missing DTC, 19"s and edc for me.

But still under 500 quid..mmm

[gIzzE]

Originally Posted by TMP

Missing DTC, 19"s and edc for me.

But still under 500 quid..mmm

You could ask about DCT, if leasing privately DCT is cheaper.

EDC I agree.

I would rather the 18s than the 19s, looks better and feels better imho.

[TMP]

Originally Posted by jimmylad

An M3 to me seems like a sideways move rather than a forward move ( I know many will disagree) but the next step up for me performance wise would have to be a 500bhp+ car.

Indeed, as Lex would say

[rogerxp]

Originally Posted by TMP

But still under 500 quid..mmm

It's a close run thing between the C1 and an M3 isn't it .

[TMP]

Originally Posted by rogerxp

It's a close run thing between the C1 and an M3 isn't it .

Actually it could well be a cooper S

[creepy coupe]

Originally Posted by pjs

Just been sent this in a flyer


2012 New BMW M3 4.0i V8 Coupe & Cabriolet

+ 18" M double spoke alloys
+ M body styling with M suspension
+ Xenons
+ Pro multi media navigation
+ Bluetooth
+ Leather upholstery
+ 2 years - 10,000 miles per annum
+ Coupe - 6 x 23 - £469.99 + Vat per month
+ Cabriolet - 6 x 23 - £539.99 + Vat per month
+ Business & Personal
+ Part exchange now available on all lease offers.



From Only £469.99 + Vat per month *Click Image To View Full Information*

By the time you added DCT, Competition pack and or EDC + 19's Your into £700+

[creepy coupe]

Originally Posted by gIzzE

Ignorance is bliss.






I am very ignorant to a lot of things by the way, don't take that the wrong way.


There is something about and M3 that only a handful of cars manage to offer.
That is the difference.

Just deciding at midnight in December, while it is wet and windy to go for a 2 hour to the coast and back, not something I would ever have done in the 335i, but something that seemed quite normal in the M3.
Until you have owned one you just can't understand then properly, it takes a few weeks of ownership to start to 'really' get an M3, it took me a year to start to realise that it was me bottling it well before the car did, and when I got that it turned it into a whole new animal.

I could enjoy the M3 up round the coast roads and not once break the speed limit, not something you can do in the 335i.
That for me is the real difference between them.

Couldn't have put it better myself

[M3-FAST]

Originally Posted by creepy coupe

By the time you added DCT, Competition pack and or EDC + 19's Your into £700+

agreed, it's very much like the Mercedes C63AMG deals - if your happy to jump into a stock car, then your grabbing a 'bargain'

If you want to start adding on essential extras then you will be back to 'normal' price.

[chrisbin]

Originally Posted by Dannyrado

Erm, to discourage us from buying M3s on the business maybe?? And to get us all into golf bluemotions and HDI citroens, works a treat really.

In which case they should be honest and call it a "green tax", because as giZZe says, it is no longer taxing the "benefit in kind"......