The E30 Prices Are TOO DAMN HIGH!!

[Il Duce]

Oh man, yea I got my old schwarz car from a dealer in Long Beach for $3k with 110k miles in 2005.

Imagine what we'll be saying about e30 prices ten years from now....

[Northern]

hahaha the date got me as well, I came into the thread at the first unread post and saw links to Fredricton Kijiji and tried clicking these links from a decade ago lol

[McGyver]

I read the first post and totally agreed prices are too high. Although I thought it was weird because $3k seems like a good price and miatas / 944s are well over that. Then I read the date, lol.

I really want to get a little track car, and was kind of looking at an NA miata. For the same price though, I could get a 986 Boxter and possibly a Boxter S.

[It's Soda Not Pop]

I'd buy that 325ix all day long at $12,500. no rust, clean, 5 speed. even 10 years ago they cost about the same in that condition.

I bought my E30 in 2002 for like $7,000. people back then probably thought it was too much as well. But I also haven't had a car payment to deal with.

Yeah the no car payment is nice.

[nando]

I am bumping this ancient thread because it is hilarious looking back on ourselves in 2012 ranting about E30 prices, and now they have gone up a whole order of magnitude since then. Today, regular E30s are being listed for what E30 M3 prices were in 2012. I am seeing E30s now being listed for upwards $18,000.

Here is the example. Granted, this thing is pretty sweet though. But $18,000??? https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/h...520473570.html

Here is another example: https://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/c...509126521.html

I'd buy that 325ix all day long at $12,500. no rust, clean, 5 speed. even 10 years ago they cost about the same in that condition.

I bought my E30 in 2002 for like $7,000. people back then probably thought it was too much as well. But I also haven't had a car payment to deal with.

[It's Soda Not Pop]

In 2015 when I bought my 88 I spent $3500. At the time I thought that I was over paying slightly. My brother told me not to buy it. Look at the market now. But this is kind of true of a lot of cheap enthusiast cars. So many cars 10 years ago or so were very affordable. Now a lot of them are out of my reach for now.

[ube91]

I am bumping this ancient thread because it is hilarious looking back on ourselves in 2012 ranting about E30 prices, and now they have gone up a whole order of magnitude since then. Today, regular E30s are being listed for what E30 M3 prices were in 2012. I am seeing E30s now being listed for upwards $18,000.

Here is the example. Granted, this thing is pretty sweet though. But $18,000??? https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/h...520473570.html

Here is another example: https://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/c...509126521.html

Makes me think about the 2002 market. Most of the ones I've seen in the four figure range are shells or failed project cars. My E30 was a failed project, and I got it to look semi-decent, but not Barret-Jackson level.

[iamsam]

I am bumping this ancient thread because it is hilarious looking back on ourselves in 2012 ranting about E30 prices, and now they have gone up a whole order of magnitude since then. Today, regular E30s are being listed for what E30 M3 prices were in 2012. I am seeing E30s now being listed for upwards $18,000.

Here is the example. Granted, this thing is pretty sweet though. But $18,000??? https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/h...520473570.html

Here is another example: https://chicago.craigslist.org/wcl/c...509126521.html

[Vspec]

Couple of euro's on this side of the border, many makes their way from the mutherland to Nova Scotia.

Euro IX: http://fredericton.kijiji.ca/c-cars-...AdIdZ397469422

DB 88': http://fredericton.kijiji.ca/c-cars-...AdIdZ396717083

Rust is indeed a possibility ...

[Stanley Rockafella]

Lol rent is terrible in SF.

I've heard it's actually cheaper to buy as opposed to rent. Is this true?

[reelizmpro]

^^^weren't you selling your car at one point?

[golde30]

any interest in selling the zender valance? prob pay rent for a few months...

Lol rent is terrible in SF. I'll sell my zender if it pays half my rent...$600+shipping.

[Ayman]

How about this clean 325iS?

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv...148946170.html

that car belongs to the owner of Ventura Motorsports, I'm sure you've seen the ads on Craigslist. Clean car, drove it. Well worth the 5,500 compared to the other pieces of shit on craigslist. I wouldn't pay that much but I would pay something close to asking price.

[GillesBigCowboy]

About a year ago, I looked at a 1990 325is 5sp calypso with bad brakes, dirty all over, unstable idle, bald tires, over worn shift linkage, unknown timing belt change interval, and ratty interior. Seller was asking $2200 dollars. I offered him $700, and patted myself on the back for not buying that car... Now I am kicking myself because maybe he would have taken 1500...
Problem is that I fall in love with every e30 I see, especially any rust free late model 325is.

[Dsun]

Hahahaha.

I am not bragging. I have owned my e30 since most of you kids were watching power rangers. I can assure you I'm not rich, on the flip side I been unemployed for months. The cool thing is I been selling off my parts hoarding on CL and it's been paying my rent for last couple months! So hooray for e30 inflation!

any interest in selling the zender valance? prob pay rent for a few months...