When did you fall in love with BMW ///Mobiles?

Black M5 · 1st February 2002, 00:22

I was just wondering and this question popped in my mind. When did i first love the M ?

I was thinking and thinking...Scratching my head...pulling a couple of hair out ! This is one of those tricky ones i guess... I remember back when i was kid and seeing those beautiful e30 M3's in Germany. They were something different. I used to travel with my family every year to Germany and guess where we lived? Not far from a BMW dealer. What luck huh ?

I went and checked out their cars and of course the MMMMMMM3. Oh i fell in love with that car and was dying to get one. But of course i was too young and didn't have a licence

I finally got my hands on a M3 when i bought a 98' M3. It was nice and had plenty of power and turned heads but i didn't like the low ratio gearbox it had to make up for the loss of power of the Euro model. So in other words i didnt like it that much. Now its a totally different story with the M5. I love this car and am planning on keep it for a couple of more years. Its funny because my dad told me to sell it this summer when im done with my Masters and buy a new car when i go back to Bahrian. I refused and told him that i loved my M5 and its color combination. He said ok he would buy me a brand new M5 fully loaded in the same color combo. I still refused! He goes "i have never seen anyone refuse to replace his old car with a new one that is exactly the same in any every shape, color and form" !!!!!!! He doesn't know the full story does he ?

To answer the question....I would say the E30 M3..When did you fall in love with ///Mcars?

johann · 1st February 2002, 00:29

My first M love was the M635CSi. It was renewed when my uncle bought a E34 M5 Touring.

Cheers,
/Johan

FAST4DR · 1st February 2002, 00:31

I would have to say that the first bimmer I fell in love with was the E36 M3 when it came out. Wow. Then, in 98 when I purchased an E36 M3/4 I found out why. What a great all around car that was. Yes, it had its qwirks. Yes, BMW service leaves much to be desired. But none of that kept me from coming back. Actually, I think a P Car experience brought me back. LOL!

EBMCS03 · 1st February 2002, 00:40

First fell in love with the E36 M3... Then switched when the E39 M5 came out.

But I also find the E46 M3 very attractive... But not as much as the E39 of course. The E39 M5 has my heart!

Gustav · 1st February 2002, 00:48

Remembering when looking at my dad's BMW brochure when he shouldoorder his new BMW E28 518i

I noticed that the 5 series didn't have the turn signals along the 45 degree sharkfront as the 6 and 7 series had. I wanted that he should choose a 6 series. Hehe, no he chosed a 518i

I was 9 then. Then I had worked two summers at BMW and I remembering preparing the 3,6 litre E34 M5. Alot of 525i back then.

That's how it started. And this is how it developed

johann · 1st February 2002, 00:52

Maybe I misunderstod the question, the first BMW I fell in love with was a orange 2002 when I was 5 or 5. It belonged to a friend of my parents.

Cheers,
/Johan

alpywhite · 1st February 2002, 01:39

The touring-car-class E30 M3's of the 1980's!

Alps

MAVERICK · 1st February 2002, 03:16

I first fell head-over-heels in love with ///M cars when I read about the 400 bhp, 6-speed manual 4-door E39 M5 that could blow the doors off a 911 Carrera. Up till then, I was not impressed with BMW or ///M cars because the U.S. E36 M3 was not spectacular in terms of performance. Since the E39 M5, I have learned to love the rest of the illustrious ///M family in their various sizes and displacements.

MEnthusiast · 1st February 2002, 05:10

well, I always admired BMW for its "no-nonsense" approach to exterior and interior design and also to nearly everything else too. They didnt need 4 wheel steering because the suspension was already right. then BMW M took these things to a new level. Id say it was from driving the E36 M3 daily. I just felt like it was a natural extension of myself. Every BMW I have driven has been a pleasure to drive in one way or another and they all have a personality trait I would call "heart".

firstbmw · 1st February 2002, 06:13

I'm kinda like Maverick.....I'd never really paid attention to BMW, but a little over a year ago I saw an E39 M5 and thought it looked incredible. A couple of months later a friend bought a Z06 and I felt the "need for speed" bug again, but it's kind of hard to fit the wife and 2 kids in a vette. Then I remembered the sharp looking BMW. When I finally remembered the model I did some checking on it (that's when I found this board) and realized that was the car for me, 4 doors, looks great, runs like a stripped as* ape.........have been in love since