E46 M3 vs 330Ci Sport

but not about hairdressing.. oops.. sorry..

M BLUR wrote:  Perhaps we can move onto comparisons between the E30/E36 and E46 M3 or perhaps E36 v E46 2.8/3.0. However I fear these issues are too emotive for some

I think you are right. It will inevitably lead to people getting personal and slagging each others cars off. Isn't that what always happens when someone brings up the question E30 M3 or E36 M3...which is best? 

Isn't it just better to accept that we all have different tastes and all look for different things in our cars.

It was however very foolish to come on the forum and slag of the E30 M3. Talk about walking into the lions den with a lump of raw meat tied to your head!

bmwz3 wrote: PJSM3 wrote: A Z3? A fish out of water aesthetically and dynamically. Another pleb muttering through the wrong orifice!

Ouch! You've just caught me with your handbag.

Praktisk wrote: So we have gone from belittling 330ci sports, to insulting E30 M3's to humiliating Z3's .. great thread. Had hoped it would have run for longer but its suddenly plummeted. Whos going to pick it up again with some decent input?

It's sad indeed as the thread originally talked about the strengths of the 330ci vs the M3 with no humiliation involved and the very fortunate choice of choosing between 2 cars vs 1 E46 M3. I think there was lots of respect all-round for the various cars discussed until a few decided to cast this it into E30 derision which was only going to spark the reraction of the many E30 owners on this forum. Perhaps we can move onto comparisons between the E30/E36 and E46 M3 or perhaps E36 v E46 2.8/3.0. However I fear these issues are too emotive for some..

I will ask one of the mods to close the thread so we can continue the rational debate elsewhere. Apologies to the original author of this thread.

So we have gone from belittling 330ci sports, to insulting E30 M3's to humiliating Z3's .. great thread. Had hoped it would have run for longer but its suddenly plummeted.

Whos going to pick it up again with some decent input?

Ah it's nice to see the thread has descended into petty insults!

M8 - if it had been a Z3M you wouldn't have any hair left as it would have been ripped clean off your head by the forward thrust..

Handbags at dawn.. Let's stop there before I call in the Mods.

Familiarity has been unkind to the Z3 but anyone who say's it's ugly doesn't know good car design. Okay it's a bit of a retro pastiche but it works. Dynamically it has some shortcomings but the ZM was as good as many an M car and the MCoupe could teach the M3 a thing or 2. Closest thign BMW ever got to a reliable German TVR and nowt much wrong with that.

and let's not hear any more bad things about the E30 M3.

bmwz3 wrote: p.s. Whats all this raving about E30 M3 anyway ? It looks pretty crap to me ..aesthetically as exciting as Anne Widecombe !

What, eh??

You're in the wrong forum lad, time you got your coat.