M Coupes

[e30s52]

My friend sam has a M roadster. Its really fun to drive but I am too tall for it :(

[regnu]

I look at them here at work almost every day along with E46 M3's and E39 M5's as well as all my other favorite saved searches on AutoTrader.com. I see S52's going from the mid teens into the twenties and the S54's going from the mid twenties and up up up..

[TDE30]

A friend just sent me the link to this one last night, albeit, it's not an M Coupe:



...and here is a local friend's unbelievably nasty M Coupe...



I will definitely own a Coupe someday, I'm leaning towards a 2.8i considering it doesn't have any ///M-specific parts.

[5spoke]

A friend just sent me the link to this one last night, albeit, it's not an M Coupe:

wow... teh sex. :crazy:

[RickSloan]

i will own one, but for the price i have been toying with the idea of buying a z3 coupe non M and just working it up. Seems like a much more inexpensive way to go and get exactly what you want.

just a few more years and i will be doing this

[TDE30]

i will own one, but for the price i have been toying with the idea of buying a z3 coupe non M and just working it up. Seems like a much more inexpensive way to go and get exactly what you want.

just a few more years and i will be doing this

Yeah, I mean the 2.8i is factory rated at 193 bhp, the S52 is 240 bhp. A few bolt-ons would make those numbers line up. However, the brakes and the chassis stiffness in the ///M Coupe would be pretty noticeable.

The M coupe has a static structural stiffness of 16,400 Newton-meters per degree of twist, which is 2.6 times as twist-resistant as the roadster. BMW claims this makes the structural stiffness higher than any other model it has ever produced. Dynamic stiffness is rated at 29.2 Hz, the same as an E36 M3 coupe.

Still, for ~$10k, a Z3 Coupe makes a lot of sense.

[z31maniac]

mmmmmm i love those things. Much more tasteful than the new Z4 MCoupe

You could not possibly be more wrong. I dig them, but they don't hold a candle to this.

[Stephen]

^ Yeah they do. The Z4 has GORGEOUS lines overall, but here and there, there are a few of BMWs "flame surfacing" lines which seem a little unnecessary and look like sheetmetal creases. Sexy, but not any sexier than a Z3 coupe IMO

[z31maniac]

^ Yeah they do. The Z4 has GORGEOUS lines overall, but here and there are a few of BMWs flame surcaing lines which seem a little unnecsary and look like sheetmetal creases. Sexy, but not any sexier than a Z3 coupe IMO

Translate please.

[kronus]

The Z4's ass end looks very nice. I like the Z3's front more, though...

Both of them are beautiful cars, and I would not object to owning either.

[Stephen]

Translate please.

Fixed it ;)

[z31maniac]

Fixed it ;)

Ahhh, thank you.

But yes, either one would make a fantastic ride.

[Stephen]

My moms got a z3 3.0 (post buttlift) which is pretty damn fun. Havent driven a 4 though to compare it to. And its not a coupe :(

[The Luscious]

I've always wanted one, but I've read that they are notorius for
issues with the rear subframe. :(




-Dan

[Stephen]

I've always wanted one, but I've read that they are notorius for
issues with the rear subframe. :(




-Dan

Not all of them do, i forget the details, but for most of them the bushings just wear like e30s.

There's a big article on BF.c about it