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05-28-2012, 12:03 AM | #23 |
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Wonderful write up and pics!
I got an IOU BMW 101 for lease of my M3, looking forward to cashing it in soon. Do you recommend the car overview? |
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awesome write up. congrats.
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05-28-2012, 01:53 AM | #25 |
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Awesome - lovely colour combo! My E90 was Jerez with Bamboo, so I am partial to this
So BMW Canada - take note! Not only do you charge $11k+ more for the same 'base' car, but you dont give the same 7% break for Euro delivery or even the option to collect the car from the US at this wonderful delivery facility! Sort it out and soon - Canadians should not have to put up with this shit! |
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05-28-2012, 06:11 AM | #26 |
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Nice post! Awesome car.
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2. There is no discount a la the European Delivery discount. The PCD is merely a pickup location alternative to dealership pickup, but with the unique opportunity to get a feel for your new car driving one of the PC's cars that's an identical model to your new car. Quote:
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Agreed on the value of the experience. What other premium brand offers such to its North American customers? And I echo your sentiment about the PC's level of organization. Quote:
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It would have been ideal to have a same tranny model, but the upside was the opportunity do experience the M3 DCT and on a road course too. If anything, that experience confirmed to me that going with the manual was the right choice for me. Quote:
In fairness to the gentleman that made the comment about ED-PCD, he had found the one month wait to again drive his car after driving it in Europe a painful experience; hence his comment about driving it home and thereby avoiding the agony of "withdrawal". Both options do make it enticing for one to buy two BMWs in order to savor both experiences. They don't make it easy, do they? Quote:
The car overview is essentially a tutorial and set up session. It may save you varying amounts of time dependent upon your level of familiarity with the car's iDrive. In my opinion, even as one that had already the owner's manual prior to taking delivery of the car, I found it beneficial and worthwhile. Quote:
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05-28-2012, 09:36 AM | #31 |
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100% will never do anything else other than Performance Center Delivery. I had such an awesome time. And Donnie! He's the man!
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05-28-2012, 10:13 AM | #32 |
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Picked up my 335 Sport the day after you and had the pleasure of working with Andy for most of the day. I echo your thoughts about what a great experience it was...I too strictly followed the break in guidelines (varying speeds often from 65-85) and averaged 35 MPG in comfort mode...unbelievable.
Anyone the least bit hesitant about taking the Performance School Delivery should go for it...it's a great experience from the time they pick you up at the airport in a new BMW till you get to drive your beauty home...and none of that lousy wait for our car after doing ED! |
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05-28-2012, 10:30 AM | #33 |
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Crazy question but can you do ED and send it to spartansberg for PCD pickup?
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05-28-2012, 12:19 PM | #36 |
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21.7 mpg! I haven't seen those numbers since my Ed followed by pcd, the memories. Enjoy it, you will become accustomed to 13-14mpg for the rest of its life. The only real criticism I have about my m3 is the gas mileage, it's atrocious.
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Wait for redelivery at PC was more like *two* months for me-- so, yes, no doubt-- that part is VERY tough! Even tougher is getting used to routinely cruising at speeds of 110 (peaking-- very briefly-- at 140 in my case) and yet feeling very safe due to the quality of the roads and drivers in Austria and Bavaria and then coming back to New York and feeling "unsafe at any speed"-- relatively speaking, of course! |
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05-28-2012, 12:50 PM | #39 |
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Great write up!
I can feel the anticipation, the excitement of delivery, and the satisfaction of ownership. Very cool! Two items within your compelling story really caught my attention. First, you've had a chance to drive a 'proper manual' (with a foot operated clutch and a gear selector lever) back to back with a dual clutch automated manual. What do you like about each one? Second, you wrote: The gentleman later asked to drive the M3 when I parked it after driving the road course. He did three laps, got out and said, “That car would kill me, but I already love it!” Was this your car or the delivery experience car? I don't think you took your own cars out on the track, but if you did I'd be most interested in the 'on track' differences you noticed between 6MT and DCT, including gear ratios. Cheers, and thanks for sharing! |
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The gentleman you reference drove the PC's M3 that was "mine" for that one day. My car didn't get on the track. The Performance Center's M3 (DCT) was driven only off-public roads while my new car was driven only on public roads within break in guidelines. That made it impossible to reach an apples to apples conclusion. Apart from that, having spent some time, but not hundreds of miles, in an M3 w/ DCT driving public roads where the car requires little effort to drive within legal limits, having some track time was welcome to explore the possibilities. Max speed attained was a 100+ mph which meant gears 1-4 were used with 2nd and 3rd being most used on the course. The shifts both up and down were fast though there were times when I was certain that the upshifts were faster than the downshifts; even when the automatic throttle blipping would not need room above redline. The paddle shifters are easy to use for the most part. When working the wheel through corner exit, it was simply easier to reach over with the right hand to flick the stick than put a finger on the right shifter paddle. As I mentioned in the OP, the gears may be better matches for other venues, but I expected, and could have used, more pull from 3rd gear which I found too tall/long and 2nd is too short for my liking but it certainly does enable tire smoking galore. For tracking purposes generally, it's probably safe too say that the DCT would offer almost anyone the greatest ease of driving and peace of mind as well as perhaps enabling a given driver faster laptimes. Whether that is what matters to everyone is another question altogether. I do wish that there had been an M3 with MT available to drive that day on the track, but it really didn't matter then nor now as I know that I made the right choice.
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By the way great write up.
Just found out we are getting the 550, and me and my father might do the pickup plan in the summer, I'll ask it sounds like a blast. Your car is beautiful from any angle! |
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Thank you for the excellent review. And congrats on your M3. Long live the manuals!
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