M3/M4 Build Your Own M3 Coupe & Sedan up on BMWUSA!

[Merc1]

Coupe:

BMW North America


Sedan:

BMW North America


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[Merc1]

Base MSRP: $56,500
Interlagos Blue Metallic: $475
Beige Novillo Extended Leather:$1,100
Sycamore Anthracite Wood Trim: $0
Cold Weather Package: $750
Premium Package: $1,900
Technology Package: $3,250
Power rear sunshade: $350
Electronic Damping Control: $1000
Enhanced Premium Sound: $1,900
iPod and USB adapter: $400
Destination & Handling: $775

Mines comes out to: $68,400


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[Merc1]

I really like the Sparkling Graphite.

The best of the entire like though may be the coupe in Alpine White:

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[CorpusCallosum]

Using the BMW Australia configurator...

All up comes to a respectable AUS$ 165,000

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[Sunny]

Base MSRP: $56,500
Interlagos Blue Metallic: $475
Beige Novillo Extended Leather:$1,100
Sycamore Anthracite Wood Trim: $0
Cold Weather Package: $750
Premium Package: $1,900
Technology Package: $3,250
Power rear sunshade: $350
Electronic Damping Control: $1000
Enhanced Premium Sound: $1,900
iPod and USB adapter: $400
Destination & Handling: $775

Mines comes out to: $68,400


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No offence to Merc, but...

And people wonder why M3 has gone soft... customers keep ordering it with all kinds of comfort stuff. It is normal BMW is going to pick up on that. If I was getting one, I would just get the tech package and and Ipod adapter may be the 19" wheels and that is it.

 

[Zafiro]

Destination & Handling: $775 - what does this include?

 

[Merc1]

No offence to Merc, but...

And people wonder why M3 has gone soft... customers keep ordering it with all kinds of comfort stuff. It is normal BMW is going to pick up on that. If I was getting one, I would just get the tech package and and Ipod adapter may be the 19" wheels and that is it.

No offense taken.

Well believe it or not a BMW still has a luxury factor to it, even an Motorsport model. Any car of this price should have certain things IMO no matter how sporty, unless its a stripped down racer.

I don't think the M3 has gone "soft" per say, just more well rounded IMO. U.S. customers demand this type of stuff which is why the last stripped down M3 didn't fly here.

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[Merc1]

Destination & Handling: $775 - what does this include?

Shipping charges from port to dealer and then a dealer porter driving it down off the carrier and into the prep area.


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[Sunny]

No offense taken.

Well believe it or not a BMW still has a luxury factor to it, even an Motorsport model. Any car of this price should have certain things IMO no matter how sporty, unless its a stripped down racer.

I don't think the M3 has gone "soft" per say, just more well rounded IMO. U.S. customers demand this type of stuff which is why the last stripped down M3 didn't fly here.

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Yup, what you say holds for the majority of US customers. Hopefully BMW will bring the CSL state side this time around for the rest of us willing to sacrifice some luxury.

 

[Zafiro]

CLK Black Series is sold in US so bring on CSL as well. As long as there is a little market, do not hesitate. If you read various bmw boards, Americans want a CSL.

 

[Merc1]

CLK Black Series isn't stripped down though and it is only a 350 unit run which isn't "sold out" yet.

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[Zafiro]

CLK Black Series isn't stripped down though and it is only a 350 unit run which isn't "sold out" yet.

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Well its stripped out from a backseat and the chairs are real racing chairs, hardcore enuff for me. Its enough for me to call it a stripped car. Even with the slightest market bmw should sell a CSL in US. Its also a good imagebooster for their M3 (although the probably dont need a imagebooster ).

 

[Merc1]

Well..uh not quite. True we don't get the back seat, but we have the same AMG sport seats as the C63, not those lightweight, carbon fiber back things you all get over there. Those seats don't have airbags and thus can't be sold here. The CLK63 Black Series isn't a stripped car anywhere near what a M3 CSL or our M3 "Lightweight" as they called it way back when, was. The CLK63 Black still has all the regular CLK 63 Cabrio luxuries except for the back seat.

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[Merc1]

We don't get these seats:




We get these:




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[Zafiro]

We don't get these seats:




We get these:




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what the heck!?!?! I would not buy BS without Bucket seats You pay a lot for a CLK BS and you cant get bucket seats. Sure it got to be a free extra option?

 

[Merc1]

Nope those seats don't pass U.S. regulations.

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[Sunny]

You can't get the racing seats in GT3/RS either here in US. But you can get them in GT2 and now even in Cayman S (it is new for Cayman S I think - so may be the regulations that stopped these seats from being available here in the US changed).


On the other hand, you can't get the new racing seats BMW is offering for the 1er here either. And even for M3 the lower portion of the seats (not the backrest) for US cars are diff from the Euro spec (it is same as normal E92 with less aggressive bolstering).

 

[Zafiro]

I said it before but US is strange country

 

[CorpusCallosum]

Isn't it to do with the average width of most Americans backsides? They are the most overweight country in the World and subsequently there car seats need to be wider to accomodate there barge sized behinds...

Here is a better idea. Make them exercise so they can fit into there seats instead of changing the seats for them...

 

[Merc1]

Airbag regulations people, airbags.

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