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£6500 budget,
Easy to park,
Cheap to run over 6-12 months,
Reasonably economical,
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£6500+/-20%

Must be able to get a bike ON or IN it.
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FAIL !! 😀 😀 😀

It fits my brief….just…I can get the Mojo in the boot and it was MUCH less than £8000!

Its not the first car I'd have thought of for a disabled person, where does the wheelchair fit?

Long bonnet; Easy to park….not necessarily happy bedfellows. Looks nice though.

Do you both enjoy hair dressing?

next to the hair straighteners.

EDIT Beaten to it 🙁

😆

Thats nice, i'd have also thought they would have cost more!

I'd have personally bought a Porsche 911

You still a poor student then????

aP – Member
Its not the first car I'd have thought of for a disabled person, where does the wheelchair fit?

It's sunday evening at the university, anyone with a pass can be disabled 🙂

Pity about it being the same colour as the road, and the same as 90% of the other cars on it…..

I had a similar brief and came back with this.

I wish I'd seen this thread earlier. 😥 However if I'd come back with the beemer it would have cost me my testicles.

will1 – Member
You still a poor student then????

Nope, I am officially unemployed…..until the 6th 😥

Nice BMW!

PeterPoddy – Member
Pity about it being the same colour as the road, and the same as 90% of the other cars on it…..

ahh, but therein lies the genius behind it!: It'll require less washing (hence cheap to run) and it'll offend no one when I come to sell it in 6 months 🙂

Colour – correct
Wheels – correct
Engine – correct

Bike carrying ability – incorrect.

75% is still a pass though – nice one!

nice, good work!

see you've embraced the BMW driver stereotype by parking in disable spaces, good show

how many miles has it got to be less than 8k?? it looks cool i like it!

Blindness. That must be it.

Pahhh, everyone knows convertibles are perfect bike carriers.

Who's got those pics of me leaving Swinley in the Midget after the wettest Gorrick ever?

I would have personally bought an MX5 cheaper to buy and more fun to drive.

It will easily take a bike on it or in it as well.

Boba Fatt – Member
see you've embraced the BMW driver stereotype by parking in disable spaces, good show

🙄 😕 Once again – Sunday, University, No one in the car park.

cycleworlduk – Member
how many miles has it got to be less than 8k?? it looks cool i like it!

61k miles! 😀 nothing for the BMW M54 straight six, my mates E46 has 189K miles on the clock.

But the hardtop cost extra….:-(

Images reproduced with no permission, sue me! :p

If I chopped wifey's Micra in for the BMW she'd be over the moon.

FunkyDunc – Member
I would have personally bought an MX5 cheaper to buy and more fun to drive.

Not cheaper, a 2004/2005 2.0L MX5 is as much if not more than I paid for this. I assure you, I looked

More fun? Maybe if the Z4 were in 2.2L guise, but it aint. 😉

So does that mean to many an MX5 is more desirable than a Z4?

tiger_roach – Member
So does that mean to many an MX5 is more desirable than a Z4?

Quite possibly, or simply that people don't realise that you can get a Z4 for similar money. There're are lot less Z4s about than MX5s

Daffy – you could get an M3 GTR and still get loads of flack on here.

Basically, many will have a pop at any "nice" car – usually because they drive a beaten up old 306/Focus/insert name of average family runabout.

It's a decent car – enjoy it!

^ correct. Good looking motor.

I remember seeing one when they first came out. I slowed down long enough for my wife to say "You're not having one".

That is a rather large number of photographs to take of a car.

Nice. A guy I know gas recently, very reluctantly chopped his in for a 3 series. He had an X5 previously, got the Z4, then about 2 months later his missis got pregnant! He was overjoyed and gutted too lol

So – how many people from here have been on AutoTrader in the last hour!

Nice car – I'd have one if I didn't have to cart loads of camping gear, kids, dog, rubbish to tip, etc., etc!! So I'll have to stick with the standard STW Octavia estate for now!

MM – all that will easily fit in a 335i/335d Touring… 😆

nice car, always liked the z4.

always quite fancied a z1 too but their prices have risen over the last few years and are now out my price range for a 2nd car.

Basically, many will have a pop at any "nice" car – usually because they drive a beaten up old 306/Focus/insert name of average family runabout.

That's really NOT TRUE at all!

It's you who has the chip on your shoulder mate, really 🙂

Mol – did I say they usually drive a newish Prius or Passat? No I didn't. Did I have a green eyed pop at Daffy's missus new car? No I didn't.

Now be a good lad and pop back under your rock… 😆

Still not true tho!

Thing is, there's nice cars and there's flash cars. Largely a matter of opinion though, with a few exceptions. I think many people think you are a c0ck if you buy a car that screams 'look at me I'm so cool yeah!'. Same reason people think you are a w4nker if you buy a Prius..

People are just thick, when you get down to it 🙁

MM – all that will easily fit in a 335i/335d Touring…

Aye – but then I'd worry about shitting it up!

The best thing about my Skoda is its 10+ years old and I couldn't give a monkeys about the interior!

I keep badgering my wife to swap her fiesta for something more sporty but she refuses to flog it.

I was quite impressed, I got over 44mpg out of it on the way down from Newcastle….I wasn't exactly pootling along either 😉

Power isn't everything, the BM feels like a truck compared to the nimble MX5.

Has it got those horrible run flat types & optional indicators?

Personal preference but I thought the MX was a much more fun car to drive than the Z4, but I guess that's because I prefer bends to straights.

I know I took the p1$$ about it being a hair dressers car but no offence it's a loverly car, I'd have one.

I'd rather eat piccalilli than have a MX5 though, that is a proper hair dressers car no matter how well it goes round corners.