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Andyboy 
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 Topic: 628CSi Auto
Posted: 11-November-2003 at 19:45 |
You might recall the black 628CSi I was wittering on about a month or so ago. Well, the owner who was ill died in hospital about a month ago and so this car needs a new home. Before the Mods remove this, this isn't a profit orientated sale, it's not my car.
But, it's a gloss (not Diamond) black 1980 W plate 628CSi Auto in very good condition with an MOT, on the button and ready to go. We just need a reasonable offer. I'm going to have a good look at it tomorrow so I'll be able to answer any questions honestly.
It's not the most desirable 6 Series, but it must be worth something to someone - preferably an enthusiast to take care of it. Anyone....? 
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Andyboy
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Posted: 13-November-2003 at 14:18 |
Well, I've had a good look around it. Bodywork is excellent, appears to have had new wings, arches are solid under the chrome bits and not the usual flaky mess, sills perfect and never welded. It's arrow straight down the sides - in all, the body is like that of a later G plate car. I would say it's a rust free car, not the usual bodged up old rubbish.
Chrome is very good. Engine sounds lovely and is very clean and dry, no leaks. It has a later Highline boot spoiler. Metric alloys with excellent tyres. Interior is leather (standard seats), original Blaupunkt radio. 80'000 miles and three owners. It seems to drive okay with some 'go' in it.
It's not a 635CSi, but a 635CSi in this condition would be �2 - 4000. A caring home is more important than the cash. 
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Horsetan
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Posted: 13-November-2003 at 21:59 |
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This is the same one which popped up in "Total BMW" some months ago....
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Andyboy
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Posted: 16-November-2003 at 21:53 |
Yep, one and the same. You should buy this one Horsey, it'll be very cheap......
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Horsetan
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Posted: 16-November-2003 at 23:00 |
 Andyboy wrote:
Yep, one and the same. You should buy this one Horsey, it'll be very cheap...... |
Er, thanks, Andyboy. I've already got my hands full with the 635CSi I've already got..... 
P.S.: I read your letter in the latest "Classic Cars" magazine, and I still don't agree with your crack about the NSU Ro80. Technology has moved on (and made the rotary reliable). The critics have not.
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STEVE328
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Posted: 16-November-2003 at 23:50 |
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If the Wankel engine was so bad,why did Mazda use it in the RX-7? We had an N reg in last month and it went like stink!!! Is the new RX-8 still a radial unit?
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1996 N Montreal blue 328i saloon 45k / 01 Y Yamaha YZF600R Thundercat.
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Andyboy
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Posted: 17-November-2003 at 00:10 |
The NSU RO80 was an interesting piece of useless junk. As a car, it completely failed to do what it was meant to do, i.e start and run for any reasonable period of time. It also drank fuel like an XJ12. It has been rightfully forgotten as a total engineering dead end which only one manufacturer (Mazda) has bothered to continue with, more out of tradition than engineering or financial sense although they have made it work for a long time now. I think Mazda sell about 3 RX8's a year.
People who fart about trying to make crap like the Ro80 work are like those who do likewise with Triumph Stag engines! A lifetime's work, and for what? 
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Horsetan
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Posted: 17-November-2003 at 00:11 |
Santos.L.Helper wrote:
If the Wankel engine was so bad,why did Mazda use it in the RX-7? We had an N reg in last month and it went like stink!!! Is the new RX-8 still a radial unit? |
The RX8 uses the latest version of the 13B rotary unit, called "RENESIS". This time the inlet and exhaust ports are both "side ports" rather than "one peripheral, one side".
If you like old rotaries, visit www.nsu-ro80.com
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