BMW should re launch a limited edition e30 for fun! I would

[theflop]

If I worked for the BMW design team I would suggest building the follwing:
Limited edition of 1000

Use the original design for the m3 e30 which they must have scrunched up somewhere.
then squeeeeeeze in the new V8 m3 engine but leave off the traction control and any other rubbish.
Include some luxuries i.e climate control etc. So it is a brand new e30 but the original shape but with a monster engine under the bonnet.
It could go horribly wrong but also could go very right.
£62000 is what I would charge and every one would be sold before they could say voila!!
What do you recon?????

[appletree]

I agree, but maybe they could try and fit the M5 V10 in there???? do a proper job if they were going to all the effort.......

[whipsey]

sounds good i'm just gonna sell my house now

[E30Dale]

good idia but make it cheaper than £62000 !
so i can afford one

[theflop]

I think the v8 is pushing it but it would be comical if they put in the v10.

I think we should get a vote going and make them do it.

[march109]

Good idea but BMW who are in business to turn a profit, a limited run and extra costs associated with it would make even £62k price tag uneconomical for them to even consider it.

Now if you scaled down the engine and spec, found 5000+ people willing to put a firm order and deposits down and you might be able to twist their arms, but thats a big ask.

If your really serious why not purchase the intelectual rights to the e30 design and make them yourself in your shed, caterham did it with the lotus7.

[theflop]

Too true but I couldn't see it being too costly as they have all the equipment etc etc.
IWith the German efficiency it would be a doddle. I am going to write to them and suggest it. But maybe build a few more as you said.
They should have done this instead of making the new 1 series I mean what were the designers on???? No offense to any one who has a 1 series but why???

[march109]

Sorr but its not that easy have you heard of oppertunity cost?

it is the money you loose by doing one thing versus another - they build an awful lot of 1 series' regardless of if you like them or not, they appeal to the affluant and wanna be affluant older/younger person, they appeal to alot of people. The e30 does not have that sort of appeal any more.

If they stop using machines currently producing 1 series or 3 series or whatever then to manufacture the e30 the will surely loose money, it takes alot of time for a machine shop to set up something as complex as that and time is money.

Also the robot the factories use now are different to the production methods used even 5 years ago let alone 20 years ago. They will all need to be programmed and adapted to cope with this new work.

Realistically it would cost hundreds of millions of £, to even get off the ground.

You would be better off buying your V10, a sound e30 and if you must strip it to the chasis and bolt/weld on new body parts purchased from BMW, and getting the interior recovered with new cloth, and wam bam you got what you wanted in the first place.

Apart from the shell I think you can still buy everything new or reconditioned from BMW still, so theres your £62k, build it yourself.

Or find or start a private firm to manufacture new shells based on the e30 desgin and build them 'new' yourself.

[theflop]

You're right it wouldn't happen.
Nevermind eh. I would love to do it myself. Hopefully I'll come into some serious cash and do it.

[Kos]

what they sould do is build a 1 seris coupe with the the e90 320si engine (wtcc special), add a few carbon pannels on it and push the engine to 200bhp

i'll have one in imola red thanks

[theflop]

could be pretty class!!! What do these designers get paid for eh???????

[Rosc0PColtrane]

A new e30 probably wouldn't pass some tree hugging predestrian safety, save a whale test or something.

[theflop]

Good point. You can't be too careful these days

[fuzzy]

£62000 isnt exactly customer friendly. who'd spend that much on a 20 year old design with no comforts?. and with no driver aids it wouldnt be long before you would find them in the salvage yards allowing us financially challenged to salvage the engines for our original e30's.

[theflop]

Naah, for 62k it would be bargin. Some comforts just no traction to make it leathal and not for the faint hearted. When you think of how fast it would be it's bargin. It certainly would not be in my budget ,lol.
It is still better than a lot of ideas and rubbish these designers come up with..
is that your car with 282bhp????

[fuzzy]

is that your car with 282bhp????

yes it is, and soon to be stage 3 -330bhp

[theflop]

I bet thats a handful on the narroww roads!! A bit of a cruiser in the wet??!!

You've created a hog there, looks well in white with those black wheels. any videos of the beast?

[fuzzy]

I bet thats a handful on the narroww roads!! A bit of a cruiser in the wet??!!

You've created a hog there, looks well in white with those black wheels. any videos of the beast?

handles good in the dry but more of a spinner in the wet.
no videos as yet though.

[mrLEE30]

if you had 62 grand to spunk you could quite easliy build your own V10 E30 and be happy in the knowledge it would be one of a handful in the world.

[dobbie82]

Isnt car copyright shorter than music, literature etc? i.e like after 20 years after they stop being made anyone can produce a similar looking car?