What questions do you get most about your M3?

[phrozen06]

Originally Posted by bnombe

How do you answer?

I would say it's not automatic; it's a robotic manual. but I don't get a chance to do that becoz I went with a manual manual

One answer I gave was "The Odd and Even numbered gears are on opposite sides of the gearbox and he just had a blank look."

[X2Board]

Originally Posted by rjd598

No that's the most common question I get asked...thread is probably so off topic you didnt even think before you spoke

Originally Posted by Carl Lassiter

My guess is that he was kidding.

I was kidding

But I would have to say that is the same question I get asked the most. Followed by; can you floor it when you leave?

[NoM3ForMe]

I didn't know the ///M-division made minivans and SUV's!!!

[WarrantyTracker]

Originally Posted by itf joegun

Ok, what's your point? Here in Germany this is simply the price for it, if it is loaded. You guys can be glad to get those low prices in the US.

In case you want to check: http://www.bmw.de/de/de/general/conf...figurator.html

Joegun, my German is not good enough to understand everythign on the DE configuration pages, but I was wondering, is the price difference attributable to VAT? We don't have anything like VAT in the U.S.; there is only a state sales tax, quoted separately by each dealer, of about 3%.

In my experience doing ED, BMW makes the buyer sign an affidavit promising to take the car out of the country within a certain number of weeks. Otherwise, BMW would be on the hook for VAT that it had not collected.

[WarrantyTracker]

The questions I'm getting most from my spouse (she's a 325 E90 automatic driver): "Now, why did you pick this particular model?" And "But it's really just an automatic, right?"

Sigh. And she's a Top Gear watcher, too. Go figure.

[itf joegun]

Originally Posted by JBasham

Joegun, my German is not good enough to understand everythign on the DE configuration pages, but I was wondering, is the price difference attributable to VAT? We don't have anything like VAT in the U.S.; there is only a state sales tax, quoted separately by each dealer, of about 3%.

In my experience doing ED, BMW makes the buyer sign an affidavit promising to take the car out of the country within a certain number of weeks. Otherwise, BMW would be on the hook for VAT that it had not collected.

The prices of the configuration software are including 19% VAT which ist the current rate in Germany.

So 95k€ - 19% VAT = 77k€ = 98.5k USD.

Normally if you import a car from the US to Germany there are also +10% custom fees and +19% VAT. So with that I think we came to a range which matches the US prices...

[WarrantyTracker]

Thank you. But I have jacked this thread enough . . . .

[bnombe]

Finally someone asked me "is that the M3 with the twin turbo?"

That came up when a coworker whom I never talked car with before started talking to me about cars after having heard the new black bimmer on the lot is mine. He sounded fairly familiar with cars and bimmer... driving an older (he told me the MY but I forgot now) 318is and sounded like he knew what E46 is when I told him I had one (325i 5MT), etc.

I guess he just doesn't closely follow like we bimmerpost regulars do