Been offered a choice of the following:
1. BMW M6 Convertable
2. BMW M5 Saloon
Luckily i'm not picking up the purchase, running (tyres,fuel, servicing) or insurance cost, anyone had any of the above, i'm tempeted by the M5 then again i also like the 535D SE touring, but that's in a lower class.
Any adivice welcome
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Will they get one for me as well (either one...I'm not fussy)
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Any adivice welcome
Yes. Stop showing off. (Didn't your Mum tell you not to?).
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Sorry my heart says M5 but have you considered a 535 bi turbo ?
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M5 unless you want to look like a footballer IMO.
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You lucky guy!!
Go for the convertible ------- I haven't had my 330ci 'vert long but already don't know how I lived without it.
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You'll regret the convertible when it's 30 degrees C outside and the sun's belting down on your forehead. I'd much rather be in my ice-cool aircon'd interior with say the sunshine roof's interior cover pulled back to see the sun without feeling its scorching rays.
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Been offered a choice of the following:1. BMW M6 Convertable 2. BMW M5 Saloon Luckily i'm not picking up the purchase, running (tyres,fuel, servicing) or insurance cost, anyone had any of the above, i'm tempeted by the M5 then again i also like the 535D SE touring, but that's in a lower class. Any adivice welcome
M6 definately!
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M5. Arguably the most capable all round car money can buy. Space, build quality, handling, practicality, useability, stacks of equipment, and outrageous amounts of power.
One of these is top of my list as my daily runabout with a lottery win. ;-)
Cheers
DP
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New job?
Birthday present?
Competition win?
On hire for two weeks in LA?
Getaway car?
M5 any day, or a 550i, or a 535 bi turbo (as PU says) I know someone with a 645i Conv and would prefer a 5 saloon ot touring.
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There's an M5 Touring coming....
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when I got home tonight, my missus said "how'd you want your egg? fried or boiled"? How depressingly dissimilar!
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If you had the option of spending the money, not just collecting one car, I'd have a 535d M Sport as a daily driver and a "poverty spec" 630 ci convertible (why would you want to go quick with the roof down?) for the golf club and the beach. Both work out about a grand more than an M6 convertible.
Given the £20k price premium over the M5 I might get the M6 if someone else were paying, but if I were taking my own lottery win along to the BMW showroom it'd be the M5 first one the list.
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Have you got to pay BiK, if so the 535d weighs in strongly.
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I was also going to say .............
............... that I find the convertibles collect dust and the hoover simply rips the gear lever out or the wheels off, I have had that problem with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang where as a saloon or estate can be wiped over with a wet cloth every few months and look as new after many years.
;-)
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Cheddar you are so funny !
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Cheddar you are so funny !
I know it is not the same league, it just reminded of a post here or elsewhere where someone was contemplating the choice of a Porsche or Ferrari and it turned or to be versions by Nikko or similar.
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Personally i'd have nothing with THAT badge!
i also think the 6 series is one of the most hideous looking cars (for the money) on the road, the back end of the convertable??? Looks like they ran out of ideas to finish it off
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Quite neither is pretty & I'd have neither, now if an S-Type R was on the list! In fact someone on Pistonheads went from the M5 to the R & was happier with the S-Type! I know someone who ordered an M5 when they first were announced & kept it for only a short while before getting a 997!
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Personally i'd have nothing with THAT badge! i also think the 6 series is one of the most hideous looking cars (for the money) on the road, the back end of the convertable??? Looks like they ran out of ideas to finish it off
MrMender, have to agree that the 6 series is not the pretty!! Having said that if the boot lid is open, it looks quite like a 911 from the side.
Anyway, intrigued to know why you would have nothing to do with "THAT badge"
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MrMender, have to agree that the 6 series is not the pretty!! Having said that if the boot lid is open, it looks quite like a 911 from the side. Anyway, intrigued to know why you would have nothing to do with "THAT badge"
Ok ok some of the top end beemers are suposedly incredible driving machines bla de bla bla
The lesser ones IMO are a triumph of marketing over substance
Come on is a 1.8 3 series worth 5 k more than a 1.8 mondeo
Don't get me going on the 1 series. Then when people get behind the wheel they think themselves sooooooo superior just because they have THAT badge!
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"people get behind the wheel they think themselves sooooooo superior just because they have THAT badge!"
Change that to some people and I'd agree with you.
Drive five year old 3 series against a five year old Mondeo back to back and you'll see the difference.
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Drive five year old 3 series against a five year old Mondeo back to back and you'll see the difference.
Intersting!
As for Mondeos and 3 Series of that genre it was about five years ago that Top Gear put 2 ltr saloons from all manufactures in volved in F1 on the track in the hands of the Stig and the Mondeo was nearly 2 secs quicker that the rest including the 3 Series, the Mondeo was a 2.0 145bhp Zetec and the 3 Series a 2.0 143bhp 318i.
My Mondeo is nearly five years old and has done 115k miles and still drives as new and is thoroughly entertaining on good roads, the chassis is still taught, the steering precise etc. Frankly keeping it is not a matter of not being able to afford a new car, rather it would cost me perhaps £15k plus the Mondeo to get a comparable new car and the Mondeo does at least 95% of what any comparable new car would do, as for a five year old 3 Series, well a lowish mileage 02/03 330d touring would appeal to me though I really dont beleive that a 115k 3 Series would have worn any better than the Mondeo and I am very pleased that I did not choose either a 320d or 318i SE that were on my list when I chose the Mondeo as a company car prior to buying it from the company, not least of which because they would have cost me a lot more to buy from the company at 21 months / 65k though would be worth little more now at 5 years / 115k.
Rather off track though when the OP is talking new M6's etc.
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Agreed Cheshire. My Benchmark is my old 330d (which is still in the family). The thing has well over a 100k now and drives as it did out of the box, in fact it feels a bit quicker, the interior has worn quite well and still cuts the mustard in the ergonomics dept. In fact it feels and smells as it should iykwim. I remember when I was looking to replace the company 530 I had that someone suggested a Mondeo TDdci !
M5 though - even more so now I think about it.
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Clearly your company car scheme far outstrips ours !
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Clearly your company car scheme far outstrips ours !
I like the comment "i also like the 535D SE touring, but that's in a lower class" - maybe he's trying to wind up PU :-)
When I was last in a company car scheme there was uproar when a senior (female) manager asked for a Polo, instead of the more usual 5 Series. Her colleagues were very concerned that it might set a precedent.
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No I'm classles - officially, I drive a Defender.
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M5.
I was watching a re-run of TG a couple of nights ago when they went to the Isle of Man with an M6, 911 and Aston V8, and they couldn't understand why the M6 was £20k more than an M5.
And an M6 cabrio is pure footballer's wives (that's NOT a compliment, by the way).
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