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alex-e30
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:29 am

i see other e30's all the time, the problem is i never see them when i driving mine :( im always in my mates e36 :-x
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:16 am

i see quite alot of them local to me but most are tatty old things but i do see the odd nice one now and then.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:16 am

quite a few in swansea.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:30 am

I always see a few on the way into work in the morning, one or two that pop up occasionally round Newbury some quite nice ones too :)
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:17 am

There are a couple on the south side of York, one a scruffy iS.
Also a Touring at a garage in Selby, looks nice.
Probably see one each time I cross the Pennines, but I don't flash them. :)
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:00 am

gotabmw wrote:i used to have a classic mini and when ever another one went by used to flash and wave and they used to wave back as do most classic car drivers obviously e30 drivers are to posh
no... its because e30's aren't classic cars. To 99% of owners they're just a good cheap car. E30's are a long way off from the flashing and waving stage.

I see two every time I look out of my window. Mine, and my mates that he's dumped in my car park while he works on it.

other than that, not many, not that I really look tbh.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:12 am

i see about 3 perday and its always the same ones in manc. normally battered.

when i started with the zone i flashed every e30 i drove passed but stopped after one guy pulled over ready to kill me because he had done nothing wrong.

to lots of people its still a cheap car but you tend to know the enthusiasts :)
guess we are a long way off the flash and wave - plus people dont wanna see my bits.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:37 pm

Quite a few...In the next street from me there is a black 318i 4dr and in another road there is a white debadged 4cyl touring and a white 320 Baur

I also see plenty more around here and there...including an M3 cabrio.

I also know a few people who have them and use them every day...Including one E30 M3 with an E36 3.2 EVO motor
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:49 pm

i used too have the flashing and waving thing in my capri. i miss it in the E30
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 1:55 pm

i counted 8 in a hour long drive this morning - but there are loads here, almost as many E34's too
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 2:33 pm

no joke i see several each day very common in fife plus 5 of my best mates have them. everyone seems to be getting one around here. most are later ones G and H plates
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:14 pm

Today went to the town of Cognac, SW France, and saw the following E30s:
324 TD x 2
325i Touring x 1
lowered 4 door pre-facelift with M3 mirrors x 1

That's more in one day than I've seen in 3 years! :)
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:16 pm

Just see the one or two about reguarly and one of thise is the festering lump on my drive.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:21 pm

hardly ever, apparently there are a few around norwich, i saw a nice four pot tourer the other day being driven by an old lady.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:00 pm

Seen one touring today while working (van driver) it was parked up in Liverpool, L20 5** postcode looked black in colour and had tinted windows...

anyone on here?
Keeping it standard.... someone has too.

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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:14 pm

Still quite a few E30's 'round my way. I must see one or other (sometimes a couple) of them practically every day.
This is why I no longer drive an E30......

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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:14 pm

In the outskirts of SW london I see 1 - 5 a day easily. Mostly older folk. But sometimes I see some really nice ones. For Ben (bootyman) in Kingston the other day too.
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:23 pm

Ive just got one round the corner from me, dont know if hes on here, actually, his brother use to own an R34 gtr.
and Ive got a mint green e30 its owner always cruises passed my house everyday, judging by the sound of it its definetly a 6pot.

And thats it from this side of London, mind you i did see an e30 m3 at my end of Edgware Road. A great rarity :)
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:27 pm

the only one i know of in my area is my mates and he bought it off me. winkeye
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Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:26 pm

I saw 2 last week on holiday one was in Antiga and one was in Curacao...
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