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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on April 12, 2004, 04:54:32 PM
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Hajo, here is the pics I promised you. Co-workers uncle is a ghost writer for several auto mags. Here's his latest story on the 6'er with a few pics he sent Marc from his drive way (He's the older of the two fellows) Personally, if I had $76,000 in disposible income, I'd get a P-car.(shrugs)
Ya like my Friday wheels? Cruised down Hollywood Boulevard in front of the Kodak Theater during the Janet Jackson event. $76,000 2004 BMW635Ci Convertible. Latest from Uncle Bob. I think you'll like this one...
2004 BMW645Ci 2-D Convertible
All automobiles are a complex compromise of opposing desires. Some get it mostly right, some get ruined trying to do it all. The 2004 BMW645Ci Convertible is an outstanding example of excellent functional compromise. Thereıs no hiding the fact that it is heavy, complicated and expensive. But what you get for your $76,000 is truely amazing. Heavy as in 4,200 pounds. Complicated as in computer electronic controlled engine breathing....no throttle....variable valve lift and intake geometry. Fully active computerized springs and shocks with active roll control without sway bars, and variable steering ratio. Plus traction control, ABS, and a 6-SPD manual control automatic transmission. But nothing feels as if directly connected....your every command seems to be a computer input request for speed and direction change that the Bimmer will then deliver only on itıs programmed terms. But deliver it does. It just goes, stops, and turns very accurately as if you were really doing it all yourself taking into consideration all the bad impediments such as lousy pavement, wet spots, etc. This driving experience might lull a so-so driver into thinking heıs Andretti, since this machine adjusts for all adverse conditions so well, leaving you with no driver technique required to motor madly like BMW owners love to do. With a fabulous sounding 325 HP V8 producing appropriate rap and burble, acceleration is abundant at any speed. Braking is fierce, almost too strong to modulate at crawl speeds. Once you see the advantage of the variable ratio steering, itıs so logical and a delight during tight manouvers. The 19 inch 35 profile Bridgestone Potenzas produce almost no pound and thump like lesser cars. With a ride far more luxury than one would think, given the roll-free accurate handling in the twisties, this gem is sort of luxo-racer. But the amazing part of the compromise is that it is a convertible that acts like a tight solid coupe. Rock steady steering wheel with virtually no cowl shake top down....not a creak or rattle on the worst choppy concrete whether the sport suspension mode is on or off. Top down 80 MPH makes very little wind even with all windows down. Back seat passengers (dwarfs only) can be protected by a vertical glass window that can be raised when the top is down. The whole top operation is an entire piece of showbiz with hydraulic cylinders and position switches cycling all the windows, the folding top, and various other flopping and shifting pieces. The result is a convertible that looks really good both top up and down with every detail smooth and closed. BMWıs controversial sculpted styling looks OK in white....sort of a very expensize scallopted potato. This is one BMW that those who want to drive hard and also be seen in the hottest Bimmer will crave.
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(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/BMW645Ci.7.jpg)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/BMW645Ci6.jpg)
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P-Car? Porsche? Which one for $75k? I thought the carreras were going for 100k now.
MiniD
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$68,600 base price for
(http://home.comcast.net/~ripsnort60/C2_Coupe.jpg)
Carrera coupe.
FYI: his punctuation and spelling is always atrocious, as is mine. So don't shoot the messenger.
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Wow that thing is gianormous. At least it's not as smurfy as the Z4 or the new 7 or 5. The wheels are just plain tacky. And curb rash magnets too. Whatever happened to the nice BBS wheels that BMW used to use? I liked it better when the Japanese were copying BMW, not the other way around.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Wow that thing is gianormous. At least it's not as smurfy as the Z4 or the new 7 or 5.
You forgot "IMO"
I think the Z4 is the best looking of the lot (4,6, and 7) Again though, with that kind of disposible income, I wouldn't buy stuff like this for style, but rather performance.
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Yeah, but if you wanted performance, you wouldn't get a Z4. You'd get an M3 or M5.
I think the Z4 looks like one of those Kobe Bryant basketball shoes.
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And smurfy is always subjective. "IMO" would be redundant.
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ever seen what that car looks like in profile with the trunk open? :D
ill see if i can find the pics tomorrow
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Yeah, but if you wanted performance, you wouldn't get a Z4. You'd get an M3 or M5.
I think the Z4 looks like one of those Kobe Bryant basketball shoes.
:rofl True...true..
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Originally posted by Nilsen
ever seen what that car looks like in profile with the trunk open? :D
ill see if i can find the pics tomorrow
No I haven;t, but I'd like a "no bangle butt" option on all the newer 5-6-7 series.
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Oddly enough I'm sorta starting to like the new 5 series... Still hare the 4,6 and 7 but the 5 is growing on me...
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I'm with funked. This doesn't look like a BMW.
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Inspected a 6 series up close and personal. Perhaps the ugliest car BMW has ever made, IMO... yes, worse than the new 7.
Looks like Ill be sticking to E46s for awhile...
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Head-Designer of that car (+some other BMW's) is already having other position inside of the BMW.
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Crap Ripsnort...
i cant find images atm. I saw it on a tv show the other day, and that beemer looks like a 911 with the trunk open if you view it in profile....maybe GS saw "autofil"
guess you will have to see it in real life but its amazing....like a copy of the porche
imagine the trunk open.....looks like the 911's spoiler when its up..ahh guess you need to see it to get my point :)
(http://www.dinside.no/km_bilde/8/107818.jpg)
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Originally posted by Staga
Head-Designer of that car (+some other BMW's) is already having other position inside of the BMW.
Janitor?
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Not enough to give the designer a new job..... i would think someone else would also have to aprove the final design... I mean...someone else within BMW must have seen the car before it went into mass production.
Anyways..the new design is prolly just unusual and you may or may not like it when you have gotten used to it.
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Ripsnort....thanks for posting the pics.
6 Series looks great to me...course that's mo.
I didn't buy that new Z4.......drove it...nice handling but little if any performance boost over my Z3. Upon further review, my Z3 is a better looking car then the Z4...of course again that's just MO.
What I did see while driving by though....in the lot was a just recently arrive M5! A larger clone of the Z3. Did not have the time as of yet to stop in and get the particulars. But it definately has piqued my intrest. Don't think it's a 2004......looks like a 2000.
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Originally posted by Hajo
Ripsnort....thanks for posting the pics.
6 Series looks great to me...course that's mo.
I didn't buy that new Z4.......drove it...nice handling but little if any performance boost over my Z3. Upon further review, my Z3 is a better looking car then the Z4...of course again that's just MO.
What I did see while driving by though....in the lot was a just recently arrive M5! A larger clone of the Z3. Did not have the time as of yet to stop in and get the particulars. But it definately has piqued my intrest. Don't think it's a 2004......looks like a 2000.
You can't go wrong with an older 5 series (540i) or M5, Hajo. I'd definately go that route.
Thats what I'm going to have my wife test drive next spring. We were planning on doing a EU for a 5'er, but the style has fallen out of grace with her. She likes the older 5'ers, so we'll test drive the 540's and M5's. She loves her current Explorer and its been dependable, so who knows, she may even change her mind in spring 2005.
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What's an EU?
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Here's some pictures of the new M5, I'm starting to like the new 5 series since I saw a few in person...
http://www.bmwm5.com/articles/tenerife/tenerife.htm
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Ooops, sorry, ED...European Delivery, knocks about $3000 off the price, thus paying for a European vacation while you take delivery. They give you 30 days worth of free insurance to boot while your driving your new car in Europe. Then when you return home, you just drop the car off at one of 11 ports that you have optioned for shipment back home.
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(http://www.bmwm5.com/articles/tenerife/m5e608003.jpg)
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Oh yea I know that program, Mercedes does it too think...
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
What's an EU?
It's when you travel to Europe to have a BMW and end with a Peugeot cause someone got confused when boarding the car in the boat :)
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Erectile Dysfunction?
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Erectile Dysfunction?
Duh... thats why we buy these cars. Where have you been?