I am looking to purchase a low mileage manual e36 M3. Don't care about exterior/interior color. Must be manual, no story car, and "vader" seats. Please PM with info. Many many thanks!
Pre-Owned E36 M3 for sale Take your pick. Prepare to pay out the nose if you purchase from these guys, but hey, they dropped the price of the LTW by $25,000!
That's EAG for you though. Their prices are insanely high but people must be paying them. Although if you want a very specific or rare BMW, they're the ones to use.
I've been looking for a sub 50k mile stock 95 E36 M3 in either Avus or Daytona for about 4 years. Still looking...
Getting harder and harder to find. There is a guy in Queens NY that has a e36 M3 in Blue with less than 3k miles. The interior is brand new but he is asking 50k! Even though I own a Scud, the e36 M3 was always my dream car in high school and college as my buddy had one. Looking forward to getting one.
I just had a 1993 325is E36. One of the best cars I ever had, but also one of the worst. Got me into motorsports autocrossing it, looked great, fun fun car. However, when it went over the hill and started falling apart it REALLY starts falling apart. The interior, electronics (ECU), windows all just turn to trash quickly. Also one of the few cars that it is "normal" for you to hear the lifters clicking when it gets hot. I think the chassis and engines will stay relatively strong on them, but I think there are so few left because the others things getting trashy and ridiculous parts prices sent them to car lot early. E30's a more long term solid car, but for that reason E36's may be more collectible someday.
If you are looking at an e36 m3 you should consider an e46 ZHP. This car was benchmarked using the e36 m3 but modernized. The e46 is arguably the best 3 series and certainly the last analog 3 series made. Sure stuff breaks but it is pretty easy to work on and you are not paying for m3 replacement parts. The ZHP performance package has a higher output engine and handling additions. I owned both and I loved my dakar e36 but the e46 was just better. Look for 2004 and 2005 cars. 2006 is hard to find since that was a transition year for the 3. Rob is correct about parts failure on both models once a certain age hits. Not as much so with the e39 5 series - better parts I guess.
Funny, I was cursing myself this morning because I passed on a perfect 95 Cosmos what seems like ages ago. 1995 was obd 1? Theres an Avus one rolling around by me. Not sure on the details though. I'll ask when/if I see the owner. Avus is darker than Estoril, right?
The M3/4/5 is one of the best cars ever made in my opinion. It's damn near flawless. My only gripe is that the leather seems pretty crappy. But I think BMW leather across the board is pretty bad.
I have an 1998 BMW M3/4/5 in Avus Blu (it was a BMW Individual special order). It has about 27K miles on it now and is the shape you'd expect for that milage. It was tracked some, but everything (save a dual pickup fuel pump and some welded in sway bar reinforcements) can easily go back to stock. Engine is unmolested, as is the interior (except for a different steering wheel--although the stock wheel is careful packed away). I still love driving that car, even if there are more and more cars that eclipse one or more of its performance metrics.
