E30 Zone

why dont BMW make van ? they make bikes but not vans. Merc makes vans but not bikes ? Why

devalues the brand.....oh wait...the mini

Exactly right.

Merc have the whole trucks and thing going on too. This is exactly one of the reasons BMW's brand is so valuable and envied.

And also why they still have crazy parts prices for old cars - prestige.

If parents could divorce their children, bmw should divorce the mini.

or leave it on someones door step lmao

get yourself a touring and plate over the rear side windows.job done.

Hmm, can't reveal too much, but there may be an E30 one appearing soon on the Zone

grantfk10 wrote:Hmm, can't reveal too much, but there may be an E30 one appearing soon on the Zone

Did someone buy that black one that was on ebay??

Not that I know of, but I heard recently that my old lagoon green touring was being "converted"

SSSHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

BMW did make a van, I knew they did,and here it is built in the early '30's....

It was the BMW 3/15 PS Type DA 2

nice find jesus!!

Nice bbs Rims!!!

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:Nice bbs Rims!!!

2.5's...you can tell by the wide arches

looks like its got eccentric e30 m3 wishbone mounts on the rear- as wheels are sitting forward in the arch

It's also got a lot of side venting,I wonder what kind of monster turbo is lurking behind them

if BMW made vans. they would be the best vans in the world

Jesus325iTouring wrote:BMW did make a van, I knew they did,and here it is built in the early '30's....

It was the BMW 3/15 PS Type DA 2

See it has the very early storm single wiper conversion.

This may well be old news (as I´m a beemer newbie) but this page seems to be fairly official BMW......

http://bmw.carclub.ru/clubs/BMW/news/27008.html

Nice...

nice but that to me is a bmw pickup

Imagine an M van.lol.

I wish BMW made vans. I'm making do with 176 bhp T5 VW transporters until they do!

Fingers crossed

Well its not a stupid question but let me say it like these, in some countrys where car tax is hig like Norway, Denmark, Finland etc you can get the X5 as a van. That means you can get it with out the rear seats like the LR Freelander SWB. But first of all, its all about money. They need to open a department who develop Vans and that is not cheap when you need to hire 3000 people and set up a new factory so we are talking billions of Euros for BMW to do that....

From the old days, some of these could you see in the Oslo traffic in the 80s as a van with out rear side windows.

same in ireland loads of x5 vans cause of realy low tax and vrt

they closed that loophole in the UK - there was a mad dash for double cab pickups being registered as vans but now they count as cars again.

im a van

What, a clio van?

better than an astra van with seats in the back

Rosc0PColtrane wrote:Nice bbs Rims!!!

ho,ho,ho,made me laugh

irish320i wrote:same in ireland loads of x5 vans cause of realy low tax and vrt

A mate has one, loves it to bits.

I can remember a few years back a dealer was asked why didn't they do a commercial version of the X5 and the reply was: We dont want to go down that road.

The most appalling example of this so far i've seen was a Cayenne commercial. That must make 911 owners cringe...

Look at this, it's a VW!

a factory built e30 m3 pick up, designed for the US market but never made production

http://www.kwyjibo.com/ispeed/mday98/mday000.jpg

http://www.kwyjibo.com/kwyjibo/ispeed/m ... day004.jpg

that thing is too cool. they so should of put that into production. but u suppose it would of had a very narrow market.

I want that, truck its sooooo

old_skool_2002 wrote:I wish BMW made vans. I'm making do with 176 bhp T5 VW transporters until they do!

Fingers crossed

O/T but 176bhp! that is alot in a high van! i've only got the baby T28 100bhp one and you soon know your high up when you get going quick in across wind!