E30 M3 'Chavvy' according to C&SC

[BEERBOY123]

Well...

According to this month's Classic and Sports Car the E30 M3 has:

'A bit of a chavvy image now'

I'm incensed. They called the E30 'anonymous' a few months back too.

I think it's time to write a stern letter. If the M3 is 'chavvy' what does that make my iS!!!

[Brian28]

If the M3 is 'chavvy' what does that make my iS!!!

Aspiring to be chav

[Felix79]

sorry but the amount of turded e36's that had m3 kits on is pure wrongness. It's bloody hard to make a good replica e30 M3 and the value of them is far from chavy.

[Motorhole]

We shouldn't concern ourselves with the opinions of the tweed British Leyland enthusiast crowd...

...probably the same people who will dub the Austin Allegro as "edgy" and "sophisticated for it's time".

Fools!

[alexm3uk]

Yeah I'm a Chav at 35

[Rich_W]

meh.

I suspect someone on their staff fancies one and thinks that if he slags it off values will drop significantly.

DREAM ON!

[autoalex]

Hahaha...I'll let the guys know of your displeasure. They work at the end of my corridoor

[Simon13]

well what a bloody stupid comment, i thought these magazine types were educated

[Dezzy]

Hahaha...I'll let the guys know of your displeasure. They work at the end of my corridoor

Tell them from everyone at E30zone.net they can all ram it.

[BEERBOY123]

Autoalex, do you know Martin Buckley then?

Have a word with him, tell him to do a showdown along the lines of E30 325i or iS v contemporary Alfa/Audi etc.

And make sure the E30 is dog dick red...

[suchy]

haha and they're supposed to know what they're talking about

[staley_turbo]

I don't know any chavs that even know what one looks like let alone afford one!

[e30topless]

Most Chavs have to scrape to buy a £1000 saxo and a sovereign ring, an M3 starts at 8k for a rotten turd ...it's a no brainer !

[luxconvertible]

f'in retards probably the sort of smucks that own alfas an proper turds!! funny that, that u dont see any chavs driving them around!! maybe coz there goin up up an up in value!! derrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

[e30-EVN]

Dickheads! And on that basis, wtf do they know?!
Wait a sec.... The alegro is a much better allrounder than the chavy e30 m3! Didn't you guys know that? Lmfao

[luxconvertible]

The mg midget type of retards i reckon!!

[Rich_W]

I just tried their valuation thingy on their site

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp

Show £9,500
Average £4,000
Restoration £1,400

Nice.

[alexm3uk]

I will take 2 at average price please if you can find one or two

[Jim320i]

I just tried their valuation thingy on their site

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp

Show £9,500
Average £4,000
Restoration £1,400

Nice.

So I can buy an Average M3 & restore it for the total average of £5400?! Wow... And hes me thinking it was worth spending that kinda money on my 320 chromie...

Spanners.

[George]

I just tried their valuation thingy on their site

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp

Show £9,500
Average £4,000
Restoration £1,400

Just shows how far off the mark they are.

E36 has a much worse perceived image than the E36. Nothing says council more than a ropey smoking E36 320i on 18 inch budget rimz, chrome arches, chrome door handles and wikid body kit.

Incidentally, what was their reference point? Which cars were they comparing the E30 to?

[gooner1]

Nice to see lazy journalism is'nt confined to the Redtops.

[Felix79]

The e46 is now in the price range of your normal sovriegn wearing types.

This "publication" really needs to get much better researchers to look into things.

[Blitz]

I just tried their valuation thingy on their site

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp

Show £9,500
Average £4,000
Restoration £1,400

Nice.

That was in 2002 though.

[Felix79]

I just tried their valuation thingy on their site

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp

Show £9,500
Average £4,000
Restoration £1,400

Nice.

That was in 2002 though.

still no excuse for not updating their database. It's very bad web management and reflects badly on them as a company if their data is 9 years out of date.

[autoalex]

Autoalex, do you know Martin Buckley then?

Have a word with him, tell him to do a showdown along the lines of E30 325i or iS v contemporary Alfa/Audi etc.

And make sure the E30 is dog dick red...

I don't know Martin but have seen him on occasion. I'm more familiar with the editor and staff writers. Incidentally, one of the guy's cars is a beautiful 2002

[gooner1]

Autoalex, do you know Martin Buckley then?

Have a word with him, tell him to do a showdown along the lines of E30 325i or iS v contemporary Alfa/Audi etc.

And make sure the E30 is dog dick red...

I don't know Martin but have seen him on occasion. I'm more familiar with the editor and staff writers. Incidentally, one of the guy's cars is a beautiful 2002

Tell him i'll give him

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/pric ... esults.asp


Average £4,000

for it.

[ivqii]

Anyone got a show condtion M3 for sale?

I am prepared to pay top C&SC money for the right car

Cash waiting

[pac1982]

Unfortunately chaps any old BMW is chavvy, it’s my only gripe with owning my E30.

There are lots of chavs out there that can afford an E30 M3 seeing as a lot of chavs make their money from selling crack, cocaine and heroin which from what I hear are all well paid jobs.

Fact is everybody who’s everybody recognises the BMW badge as being one of the following Cool, Fast, Quality, Bling etc etc all of which your common garden chav aspires to and seeing as decent BMW’s can be had for penny’s these days the chavs are snapping em up. For those few lucky chavs who have sold enough bags of crack that month they may well venture in to E30 M3 territory.

Look at Burberry started off as an expensive quality brand that only the rich and famous used to wear and now its more at home in your local council estate chip shop

[kieran325]

I don't know many drug dealers running around in E30 M3's, not my way anyway.

The big dealers who live the life of luxury might have a M3 parked up in the garage but them fella's can afford the best and won't parade around selling wraps for £ enter your own price !

Does it really matter what they say ??

Most drivers hate the BMW driver so who cares.

[George]

Unfortunately chaps any old BMW is chavvy, it’s my only gripe with owning my E30.

There are lots of chavs out there that can afford an E30 M3 seeing as a lot of chavs make their money from selling crack, cocaine and heroin which from what I hear are all well paid jobs.

I'm not sure about that. Ime the E30 M3 is not the car of choice for drug dealers. I think you're confusing it with this:

[pac1982]

Unfortunately chaps any old BMW is chavvy, it’s my only gripe with owning my E30.

There are lots of chavs out there that can afford an E30 M3 seeing as a lot of chavs make their money from selling crack, cocaine and heroin which from what I hear are all well paid jobs.

I'm not sure about that. Ime the E30 M3 is not the car of choice for drug dealers. I think you're confusing it with this:

either way if that is the car choice of chavvy drug dealer it blows the argument of an E30 M3 being to expensive for em out of the water.

Just look at some of the members on this froum the E30 is a bit chavvy fact.

Wont stop me from liking em though each to there own and all that

[HenryM3]

I 've always wanted to be a "chav" and now at 58 I've finally achieved my dream. Thank you C&SC

[beemerbird]

Anyone got a show condtion M3 for sale?

I am prepared to pay top C&SC money for the right car

Cash waiting

Some folk seem to have missed the fact that the valuations were given in a 2002 copy of the magazine. I imagine that if they were to value them now, you'd be looking at a few shekels more. . . .

[pacerpete]

I 've always wanted to be a "chav" and now at 58 I've finally achieved my dream. Thank you C&SC

I'm not going to argue with you !

[Jhonno]

Unfortunately chaps any old BMW is chavvy, it’s my only gripe with owning my E30.

There are lots of chavs out there that can afford an E30 M3 seeing as a lot of chavs make their money from selling crack, cocaine and heroin which from what I hear are all well paid jobs.

Fact is everybody who’s everybody recognises the BMW badge as being one of the following Cool, Fast, Quality, Bling etc etc all of which your common garden chav aspires to and seeing as decent BMW’s can be had for penny’s these days the chavs are snapping em up. For those few lucky chavs who have sold enough bags of crack that month they may well venture in to E30 M3 territory.

What a load of bollocks..

They might be able to afford one, but the M3 doesn't have the image they want..

They are all tooling about in E46 M3 Convertibles, and stupid 4x4's with bling rims