Yas Marina Bue Metallic F80 M3 vs Santorini Blue E92 M3

[bernpep]

Originally Posted by bradone1

The new YMB F80 blows that e92 away in looks and color. Those gold wheels on the e92 have Got.To. Go. Horrible, looks like an old Toyota corolla peanut's wheels.

YMB =

[bernpep]

Originally Posted by Kurt_OH

Both mechanically and visually, BMW has erased much of the emotional appeal of the ///M cars with this generation. It's simply a "commodity" performance car. Still a good value, but no longer compelling otherwise.

You nailed it!

[ORIGIN M.]

Originally Posted by dfw335i

E92 bulge is where it's at. Is it me or do y'all also dislike the hood line in front that goes straight across? They made that line much shorter on the E92; a step backwards by stylists. It looks awful on the F80.

Safety laws have changed the designs of cars as we know them.

Like it or not.

///Matthew your car is lovely!

[Damasconian]

What's more predicable than a bunch of e92 owners ripping on the car that just replaced theirs?

Like the sun and the moon.

[IB M]

E92 owner here who also is a F8x fan. Designs evolve but all M3 cars are winners. YMB is ok but build my M4 in Interlagos Blue.

PS: E9x and F8x fans should stop mixing it up on here, everyone knows the E46 is the true M3

LOL.

[Enilder]

Originally Posted by IB M

E92 owner here who also is a F8x fan. Designs evolve but all M3 cars are winners. YMB is ok but build my M4 in Interlagos Blue.

PS: E9x and F8x fans should stop mixing it up on here, everyone knows the E46 is the true M3

LOL.

Do you own both E46 and E92? Nice!!!

[dardeca]

YMB is horrible!

[IB M]

Yep and thanks. They are different in many ways; both so much fun and interesting to drive back to back. M4 is getting great reviews; can't wait to drive it as well.

[Tallest]

What rims are those guys on the M3 E92? they are amazing and so beefy! And centers are convex on fronts. What are they? Cant be BBS LMs..

[///Matthew]

Originally Posted by Malbolge

What rims are those guys on the M3 E92? they are amazing and so beefy! And centers are convex on fronts. What are they? Cant be BBS LMs..

Haha thanks! They are BBS E88s.

[luvthestck]

YMB is as ugly as the new M4.The design cues of a german car are missing in this new iteration of 3/4 series.It looks more like a Japanese car than a German car.

[1MOREMOD]

Originally Posted by luvthestck

YMB is as ugly as the new M4.The design cues of a german car are missing in this new iteration of 3/4 series.It looks more like a Japanese car than a German car.

Has not grown on me yet. Little lexus rear end not sure what up front and hood line bugs me.

[mstmng]

Originally Posted by Powerbeast

Guess what color I'm ordering?

what happened to m5? no posts from ever since you have bought it...

[Alan l.]

Checking back in a year to see how many M3/M4 haters here end up with that car lol

Santorini blue rocks YMB by a mile. If i ordered a M3 SB would be very high on my list along with Imola Red.

Alan

[nonagon]

Santorini is indeed a better blue than YMB, but whoever thought YMB looks like the handicap blue needs to get their eyes (or monitor) checked.

Also, it's as if no one on this thread has seen the F80 before. IMO the F80 looks better (more grown up, classier, beefier, more modern, yet still aggressive) than the heavily modded E92 coupe which looks good but a bit dated and juvenile with all the aftermarket bits.

Why are people still talking about the hood line?

[dfw335i]

Originally Posted by red-sauerkraut

Safety laws have changed the designs of cars as we know them.

Like it or not.

///Matthew your car is lovely!

And yet, Porsche found a way to make put this line much lower and shorter as they did with the clamshell design of the hood on the Macan. And I think MB has done a better job of dealing with this hood line. The line straight across the hood takes very little design imagination or talent in my view. They can do better. Maybe in the next generation.

[bucket328]

I guess I'm the only one who thinks the E92 looks very very dated next to the F80. Every time I see one on the road now, the front end looks terribly dated. The E46 on the hand doesn't seem dated at all to me.

On looks alone the F8X is miles a head of the E9X

[b-thumper]

Originally Posted by IB M

E92 owner here who also is a F8x fan. Designs evolve but all M3 cars are winners. YMB is ok but build my M4 in Interlagos Blue.

PS: E9x and F8x fans should stop mixing it up on here, everyone knows the E46 is the true M3

LOL.

LOL, I still haven't been able to part with my IB E46 M3. The E92 is all about the V8 for me, but perhaps little weight loss would go a long way towards parting with the E46. My E46 weighs in just a hair under 3300lbs with full interior and a half a tank of fuel.

[bradone1]

Originally Posted by Damasconian

What's more predicable than a bunch of e92 owners ripping on the car that just replaced theirs?

Like the sun and the moon.

Boom

[BAL278]

Originally Posted by Longboarder

Wow that new M3 looks like crap next to your car.

I have to agree with this, I like your Santorini Blue