E30 Zone

As above. Thanks

hubble wrote:As above. Thanks

Not sure how many of them were Tech2, but a total of 4402 sports were imported (Tech1 & 2).

I've seen a lot around the London area. Not very rare, unless you see Ian's 332i Sport :winkeye:

Cabgirl wrote:I've seen a lot around the London area. Not very rare, unless you see Ian's 332i Sport :winkeye:

E30 325i sports not rare ? Hmmmm ok

Since I got rid of mine, I havent seen 1 and it was about a year ago when i sold up.........I do see millions of e30's but none of them sports, Infact ive seen quite a few E30 M3's in that time aswell.

Cabgirl wrote:I've seen a lot around the London area. Not very rare, unless you see Ian's 332i Sport :winkeye:

Starting to get thin on the ground now as rust has be catching up one many of them.

Not many nice ones left!

Someone did post up a while back a list of how many manual and auto sports were registered here each year they were available.

bss325i I do wish I hadnt just seen that ad for the N95 below your sig !
I bought on off a mate last week for £150......so not brand new

e36boy wrote:bss325i I do wish I hadnt just seen that ad for the N95 below your sig !
I bought on off a mate last week for £150......so not brand new

Such is life! I've had little intersest surprisingly.

These are from the FOI figures which GwynleyM10 posted up a while back - not cars imported, but cars still on the road at the time:

325 I SPORT Total - 917
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 35
1987 - 192
1988 - 52
1989 - 318
1990 - 245
1991 - 75


325 I SPORT AUTO - 139
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1987 - 24
1988 - 9
1989 - 62
1990 - 37
1991 - 6

Thanks Chris

Subtract one from the 1989 figure.

MARCH you have a PM

No PM recieved yet?!

Sorry Bloody inernet!

Chris-W wrote:These are from the FOI figures which GwynleyM10 posted up a while back - not cars imported, but cars still on the road at the time:

325 I SPORT Total - 917
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 35
1987 - 192
1988 - 52
1989 - 318
1990 - 245
1991 - 75


325 I SPORT AUTO - 139
1983 - 0
1984 - 0
1985 - 0
1986 - 1
1987 - 24
1988 - 9
1989 - 62
1990 - 37
1991 - 6

im shocked i thought there would be loads more sports on the road than that

no just lots of imitations

they were an expensive car when new, priced mine up this morning at £23,700 ish with the options it has.

not so many left now due to the rust and wayward rear ends/crap drivers but since the plastic kit doesnt rot a lot of models are dressed up as sports.

Those figures seem shockingly low

Mine is one of the finer '89 vintages still knocking around.

Not really it was an expensive car in its day, I wouldn't be surprised if there are 3 times that total in imitations running round in the UK, given the Mtech kit was a BMW option on all models, supplied standard on the sport and was available as well as copies after market. As has been said the metal will rot, the plastic parts will not.

I myself have written off one and own two, out of 917 manuals thats not bad. Soon as the Black one is MOT'd itwill be for sale for a reasonable price too. Or I may put it in storage for a time when I'm a bit more flush.

doughboy wrote:Those figures seem shockingly low

Mine is one of the finer '89 vintages still knocking around.

As is mine

I would have thought there were more than that

I dread to think how many 'genuine' sports are left on the roads...

march109 wrote:Not really it was an expensive car in its day, I wouldn't be surprised if there are 3 times that total in imitations running round in the UK, given the Mtech kit was a BMW option on all models, supplied standard on the sport and was available as well as copies after market. As has been said the metal will rot, the plastic parts will not.

I myself have written off one and own two, out of 917 manuals thats not bad. Soon as the Black one is MOT'd itwill be for sale for a reasonable price too. Or I may put it in storage for a time when I'm a bit more flush.

never knew the mtech kit was an optional extra i thought only sports had it

beardymat wrote:they were an expensive car when new, priced mine up this morning at £23,700 ish with the options it has.

not so many left now due to the rust and wayward rear ends/crap drivers but since the plastic kit doesnt rot a lot of models are dressed up as sports.

Hi Mat. yep they were expensive cars back in the day. Driven by those pin stripe brace wearing city boys....Like me LOL

Bring the the 80's that's what I say!

bmwsport wrote:
I dread to think how many 'genuine' sports are left on the roads...

You don't have to think, it's all in a list above!

So, 1056 left out of 4402.


Apart from the ones that have been scrapped or written off, the remainder are probably in Ireland.

Simon wrote:So, 1056 left out of 4402.


Apart from the ones that have been scrapped or written off, the remainder are probably in Ireland.

Your damn right and those are hanging on for dear life

I have an '89 Tech 2 here, in daily use

less than 25% of all sports left!

bss325i wrote:less than 25% of all sports left!

Well that's great news for us fellas

hubble wrote:

bss325i wrote:less than 25% of all sports left!

Well that's great news for us fellas

My 'investment' doesn't seem to bad now.

march109 wrote:

hubble wrote:

bss325i wrote:less than 25% of all sports left!

Well that's great news for us fellas

My 'investment' doesn't seem to bad now.

Mines going nowhere although i did recently have thoughts of selling.

bss325i wrote:Mines going nowhere although i did recently have thoughts of selling.

Your joking right??

bss325i wrote:

march109 wrote:

hubble wrote: Well that's great news for us fellas

My 'investment' doesn't seem to bad now.

Mines going nowhere although i did recently have thoughts of selling.

We all do, I have a daily driver so the redundent sport seems like a silly driveway ornament, just no MOT means its virtually un-saleable. Wether thats a good thing or bad thing depends on where my life goes from here. Got alot of changes coming up, new job, new flat, don't know if 3 cars is practical and maintainable in the current economic climate.

I'm considering a second car at the mo and looking to keep the sport in storage.

march109 wrote:

bss325i wrote:

march109 wrote: My 'investment' doesn't seem to bad now.

Mines going nowhere although i did recently have thoughts of selling.

We all do, I have a daily driver so the redundent sport seems like a silly driveway ornament, just no MOT means its virtually un-saleable. Wether thats a good thing or bad thing depends on where my life goes from here. Got alot of changes coming up, new job, new flat, don't know if 3 cars is practicle and maintainable in the current economic climate.

Mine will now be a garraged show queen/large ornament mothballed in the winter etc etc and i have wanted to do concours with a car once in my life which i know is a bit anal/homo but to have a car to that standard is nice imo and my sport has the potential to do this with.

Not for a good few years though.