E30 Zone

Out and about yesterday and spotted this near enough mint example of a 528i wearing M-Tech badges.

The interior has sport seats (non-leather) and a Tech 1 wheel. She's done the equivelant of around 100,000 miles and hasn't a spot of rust or stone-chip (although I did find a small area needing paint correction, but I'm a fussy bugger).

Is this an Mid '80s E28 as I suspect? And also, would this be a genuine 'M' model in your opinion?

Enjoy the photos

greentouring wrote:Out and about yesterday and spotted this near enough mint example of a 528i wearing M-Tech badges.

The interior has sport seats (non-leather) and a Tech 1 wheel. She's done the equivelant of around 100,000 miles and hasn't a spot of rust or stone-chip (although I did find a small area needing paint correction, but I'm a fussy bugger).

Is this an Mid '80s E28 as I suspect? And also, would this be a genuine 'M' model in your opinion?

Enjoy the photos

Yes this is a mid 80's car and they never did a M in the 528i But they did do a M535i.

Looks pretty nice apart from the stripes.

No stone chips because he drives in reverse just like there army!

they never did a M in the 528i

+1
Released a MotorSport 528i here - sports seats, dog leg box, stripes, alloys, etc but this is a later model and some sort of mock up

Looks a nice bit of kit

I did an internet search and found no record of an M-badged 528i, thus the question ;)

What sort of price do you reckon something like this would fetch in the UK?

I personally don't like the rear spoiler much, although it is being made worse by the stripes somehow. The eyebrows are nasty too They did not do an ///M 528i, and I have never heard of a motorsport 528i although there were Schnitzer and Alpina 518i based cars. However the kit, seats etc were all options. It looks like it could be a 86/87 car, as for the value over here 528is are not the most expensive probably around 2-2.5K in this condition.

E28s don't fetch as much money as overpriced E30 sports !

I'm not a fan of spoilers at all, but I think the stripe leads the eye back to the spoiler very nicely.

Agreed on the eyebrows, and a chrome kidney grill would be required too.

Looks a lot like the one that's been parked up by the side of the road in Le Mans for a few years!

The whole rear end looks different.

looks pretty nice

Blitz wrote:The whole rear end looks different.

I was looking at that earlier, it looks almost like an M3 boot to a standard E30 boot if you know what I mean, the back face of the boot looks flatter and taller, it is an optical illusion due to the spoiler ?

You know what? I couldn't see it before, but that boot lid does look different. Look at the gap under the BMW roundel on both boot lids.............it's much bigger in the French car.

agreed - weird

greentouring wrote:You know what? I couldn't see it before, but that boot lid does look different. Look at the gap under the BMW roundel on both boot lids.............it's much bigger in the French car.

Again I think that's an illusion due to the stripes on Splondikes boot lid.

Get someone to chop both boots plain.

That rear end is defenity modified.

Assuming the 'AV' means its for sale, any idea about how much the owner is asking for it?

No idea, there was no one around to ask, but if s/h French car prices are anything to go by, it'll be very expensive.