E30 Zone

What is the best thing about owning your e30?

I think they are so easy to mod without going over the top.

The sound mechanicals and the fact the engines (usually) last forever.

The sound...



The way it goes round corners ain't too shabby either.

The people on here that keep it going with parts and advice

john

Price....
£250 to date

seriously though...

the way they look,

the way they drive,

the way they change a work commute into a journey you look forward to....

a never ending scope for mods,

cheap mods,

DIY,

time pass,

the investment (most are worth more than e36's already)

and so many more things....not forgetting....The Zone!!!

Mines nearly 20 years old and still is great to drive and feels so well built.

I drove my brothers car today straight after driving the E30 and it was a shock to the system that such a new car can be so badly built!

best thing for me
was it helped me find this wicked little community called the e30zone

got to be the solid built quality and the old skool looks!!
and the driving experience
i have drove newer cars but they just dont feel as good as a E30, there is just something about them

tylerma wrote:best thing for me
was it helped me find this wicked little community called the e30zone

Aww Malc you big softy

d6dph wrote:

tylerma wrote:best thing for me
was it helped me find this wicked little community called the e30zone

Aww Malc you big softy

tonybtonyb wrote:What is the best thing about owning your e30?

I think they are so easy to mod without going over the top.

They are so easy to work on and once you've change cam belt/tensioner/v.fan/ t.stat and maybe exhaust.the car just keep going.

the timeless 'style' of its looks

The fact that it's reasonably powerful

I love how it looks so awesome, I love the way the engine sounds, I love the way grown men(and sometimes women) come up to me just to say they like the car

I like the way it drives and will drive

mainly because its a BMW and its an old skool BMW
cheap parts
very cheap and easy to modify
cheap insurance
build quality
RWD
and the lurvly 6 pot sound

and distinctive smell inside.

i love the way they are finally achieving the classic status they deserve... and the sound of the straight 6..

and i like staring at all the euro/jap boxes on the road and laughing!!!!

I like the pointless Starskey and Hutch wheelspinning available on tap at any time without looking like a knob. A wheelspin in an e30 is acceptable, a wheelspin in a Picasso is knobbish.

I like it when your at the lights and a boy racer in his nova/corsa/jap crap pulls along side wanting a race from the lights.

You accept the challenge leave him for dead accelerating up to the speed limit going past a copper and the copper 95% of the time pulls the boy racer
and the time he pulls you is only to respect the car.

The sidewayz fun!

325i Sport: sound of the six
twisty roads
flying the car on a seaside road
the constant ability to take it round a track, and it do well for its cost
reliability, sixes never die (well i have one, but it wasnt mine)
getting a soft spot for those damn good looks
quality of the build, ease of working on, engines looking good (compared to many of the same era)
reliability of the gearbox/diff. am impressed with the abuse they put up with
the endless discussions of which engine to swap in, so many good options
as above, but for any amount of modding/race car talk

318iS turbo
i finally have a decent 4 cyl (m3s are expensive for what they are)
280hp...fun surprising brand new evo owners
torque...actually having to build a car around power instead of the other way round

i love e30s

i also love how non-pretentious they are, when people ask what car i have, i can say "one of those old bmw 3 series, i'm a bit of a fan. quite sad really" and i get no more questions, despite spending (when i was home) nearly half of all my spare time on them

god save the queen

The way they set off from standstill. You can't beat rear wheel traction off the line! The precise steering, balanced handling and brakes that have feel instead of massive over-servoing like modern cars. The way you can get the back out, and get it back again. The sound of that six from idle to redline and the way that the things are screwed together in a way that means you can fix it yourself, but rarely have to do more than servicing.

It just needs to be galvanised!

The SEX cylinder sound
The style
Quality of build
The old school look


Once youve welded your diff, its the perfect car for throwing that back end about

dimebag_from_hell wrote:Once youve welded your diff, its the perfect car for throwing that back end about

Why is that?

one nice thing about owning one is that you know it's only going to look er and er...

tonybtonyb wrote:What is the best thing about owning your e30?

I think they are so easy to mod without going over the top.

A few years ago i owned a jet black 323i 2 door and the only two things i changed was exhaust and 17"azev A's,one day i drove down to the west end and park the car just around the corner from the hippodrown.Then after about 5 mins a lovely girl said to me she loved the car.

best thing about e30 ownership.....

When I pull up next to an old fogey in a bog standard cotton wool'd e30 and he looks at my car, then looks at me like I just ate his children.

Knowing that you paid less than the boy with the 1.1 chicken paxo and got a far superior car

Enjoying walking towards her in the carpark, while she sits alluringly amongst all the shapeless, modern blobs of cars, and being mesmerized by those lovely twin lights.

The looks, that is the only comment I am qualified to make as mine is STILL just a driveway ornament.

The sound and the rarity........day in say out on the roads you see duplicateso f the same car.......very rare to see more than two E30's close by one another

The sound, handling, looks, easy maintenance, parts avaliabilty, knowing that my Wife and Daughter are safe in it, but most importantly : I can hear when she's coming home so I know to get off the "bloody zone" ( her words ) quickly before I'm caught again.

cutting out rust and welding it up again, love it me

Enjoying walking towards her in the carpark, while she sits alluringly amongst all the shapeless, modern blobs of cars, and being mesmerized by those lovely twin lights.

Couldn't have put it better- the sight of that handsome snout puts a smile on my face every time.
Aerodynamics? PAH! My missus hates modern cars as much as me and has already agreed in principle to me having a fleet of e30's at some stage!
Plus people saying "oh bmw, bet parts are really expensive" err no and the stealer still stocks just about every one for a 20 year old car!
The sound of that m40 typewriter is a real head turner too.

I agree with every single word that has been posted by everybody else but I will add a few more points.

The best things about E30 ownership for me are -

1. The fact that I'm never bored because there's always something to replace/renew/repair/re-paint/re-clean

2. The buzz I get everytime I drive it.

3. The attention the car attracts - lost count of the conversations I've had with complete strangers complimenting/asking about the car.


Taylor.