What bmw would you buy.........?

[oakey]

For £1500-£2000?
I'm open to anything really. I dont want anything too practical and boring but I dont want anything completely impractical either.
Needs to be quick, ie no slower than a 325i e30.
I'm open to anything.
I'm quite tempted by a 5 or 7 series. But I wont rule out an e30.

[capri_rob]

I would get an E36 328i Coupe - for £2k you should get one which has been looked after and not councilled.

A 5 or 7 Series for that sort of money will almost certainly be a high mileage thirsty money pit.

[oakey]

I would get an E36 328i Coupe - for £2k you should get one which has been looked after and not councilled.

A 5 or 7 Series for that sort of money will almost certainly be a high mileage thirsty money pit.

Oh yeah and I dont want an e36

Bare in mind I dont want the car to keep, just something for the rest of the winter as a fun runabout.

[StuBeeDoo]

E36 328i.
4-door or Touring if you want practicallity or 2-door if you want the sporty look and can live without easy access to the back seats.

[fuzzy]

an e34 540?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-540I-RARE-6-S ... 240%3A1318

[oakey]

Actually I could live with an e36 touring

[capri_rob]

I would get an E36 328i Coupe - for £2k you should get one which has been looked after and not councilled.

A 5 or 7 Series for that sort of money will almost certainly be a high mileage thirsty money pit.

Oh yeah and I dont want an e36

Bare in mind I dont want the car to keep, just something for the rest of the winter as a fun runabout.

In that case and with that budget I would buy the best E34 535i Sport you can find

[e36boy]

^^Im with Capri_Rob^^

[StuBeeDoo]

Oh yeah and I dont want an e36

D'OH!!
You posted that the same time as I posted my suggestion.

[Simon13]

theres a e34 535se in total bmw for £800

540?

[Jon_Bmw]

A lazy 540 auto would be good as a winter run about. Not great on fuel though. I think a manual 540i is likely to be my next BMW, then LPG it. The hard bit: Finding a manual e39 or late e34 touring in a dark colour.

[fuzzy]

a 540 wouldnt be so bad with fuel prices dropping the way they are.

[Blitz]

E28 535i?

[oakey]

A 540i would be great. I could live with the fuel costs but not any major repairs.
Could I get a decent one for that price?
Ive spotted a very very nice looking 740i for 995- would that be a bad move?

I spotted this e30 aswell
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C64398

[bss325i]

E28 535i?

+1, took the words right out of my mouth!

More fun and quicker than a E34 535i.

[bmwsport]

Wow that e30 looks like it could be a bargain Oakey, looks a minter

[Rodderz]

Yeah E28 535i but without the body kit..which has to be one of the all time worst!

[sati]

BMW E31 850CI in black and manual only if had £5-20k laying around

the sound of an 5.6 v12 380hp@5,300rpm

[fuzzy]

BMW 850CI in black only if had £15-20k laying around

not really in his £1500-£2000 budget...

[sati]

850ci 5.6 v12 for £2k ?

or maybe the 850csi version

saw on ebay at £15K and it sold.

[B7]

I'd go for an e34. No questions about it. e39 too risky at that sort of money but you'd get a peach on an e34.

[GrindCulture]

Needs to be quick, ie no slower than a 325i e30.

E30 318iS

I'd love an E39 540i. My stepdad had a 530i for a while and it was lovely (although I never drove it, I was only about 15...)

[Morat]

E39 540 manual is pretty much the same economy as an E30 325 in normal speed driving but is more extreme at the two ends of the spectrum. When you really go for it you can drink fuel at a truly amazing rate - I burnt half a tank in 20 minutes on country roads and beat the TomTom arrival time by 40 minutes

If you use the cruise control and stick under 80 on the motorway you'll get about 400 miles from the (70 litre) tank but you have to try hard to get that economy.

Jon, keep looking. They only built 70 RHD 540i tourings in manual during the entire run, and there's definitely one written off

[iil325i]

get a E36 328i sport, you can get a 96 for under 2k. then sell it when your done easy get your money back
you prob not like it to start with but there fun after you have played with it for a bit

[zimmer-320i]

z3m, if not maybe a e21 with a decent bmw engine convo to make it a rocket

[Jhonno]

328i touring..

e28 of any kind

[Alex]

728i sport or an e36 alpina b6 there more 4-5k tbh

[AlexBaur325]

635?

[Simon13]

morat they only built 35 rhd manual e34 540i tourings! they're rare in any guise!

[Jon_Bmw]

morat they only built 35 rhd manual e34 540i tourings! they're rare in any guise!

Morat is talking about e39's. I know this is I gave him a car when some chump ran straight into the back of his e39 manual 540 touring. The schlagg was on the phone as well.

There was a manual e34 calypso red man touring for sale about 8 months ago for £750 with a bit of a dent in the rear 1/4. Shit, I should have bought it.

[fozzymandeus]

I'm thinking of spending about this kind of money on an E38 right now, so that'd be my suggestion! I've found a few 735s for sale at this kind of cash, and they don't seem to be old knackers either.

Only problem is if they do go wrong it'll cost.

[zaust]

500 - 600 on a 325 e30 and the rest on making it right.

or it would have to be a e28 m535i.


Btw there is a manual 540 e34 saloon for sale on 5 forum at the mo.

[stevotheevo]

perfect smoker

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BMW-635-CSI-HIGHL ... 240%3A1318

[AlexBaur325]

good call....the highlines are sweeeet

[Rosc0PColtrane]

Either a e36 touring or a e30 touring, or e34 535i sport. Most likely the e34