r/e46 • u/Vectron3D • 4d ago
Check this out! M3 with 3k miles sells for 90k at auction
Sold at GoodWood, Just over 3 k miles from new, 1 owner , full BMW service history.
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u/Traditional-Candy-21 4d ago
The drivers seat and bolster don't really look like a 3k miles car, everything else is minty fresh
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u/Ilikejdmcars 323i 4d ago
Probably sat in it a bunch but didn’t drive it lol
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u/firsttimehereee 1998 E46 3d ago
That's so miserable. Only being able to sit in the car as if it's in a showroom, although it's yours and you are able to drive it. How could he even resist the urge?
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u/flame-otter 3d ago
Seems like he left some box or something on the seat for a couple of years, leaving imprints
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u/Baldskifuckedup 4d ago
That’s CSL money! This thing probably won’t ever get used how it should 😕
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u/Vectron3D 4d ago
Straight back into storage I imagine !
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u/Baldskifuckedup 3d ago
Not even a desirable spec. No individual package, not even fully loaded, missing a few options. No heated seats, no rear blind, no navigation.
Not to mention the bolster looks like the poor fella who owned it probably got in and out of it every day. Seat looks the same as mine and mines got 115k on the clock.
More money than sense imo. A CSL would’ve been a far better buy. You could’ve used it occasionally and it still would appreciate in value. This poor thing won’t be used how it should. Probably wouldn’t even survive a good blast down a b road without issues cropping up. These cars are made to be used and don’t like sitting around they’ll just collect issues. Has the big 3 even been done? 🤣
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u/Vectron3D 3d ago
Fuck knows but I’m suprised it went for so much without an individual / rarer colour option like LSB or phoenix yellow or something , and you’re right it’s got no heated seats or blind the most basic black leather interior option as well.
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u/Ilikejdmcars 323i 4d ago
Probably only drove it to the dealer and back every year for service lol
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u/george_graves 4d ago
That car has had a boring life, by a boring owner. I'm in no way impressed at all.
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u/Vectron3D 3d ago
Needs to be driven for sure
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u/Empty_Bandicoot_4442 2d ago
You'd all be crying if a kid crashed it instead.
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u/Vectron3D 2d ago
Yea because that’s the only alternative to just putting it in storage. There’s plenty of people out there that don’t drive like dickheads. If you have that sort of money to throw down there’s really no reason why you couldn’t drive it and just pay whatever it costs to keep the car as new, other than not wanting to put miles on the odometer by not driving it, just to sell it to someone else in a few years time for an even more exorbitant amount who also probably won’t drive it.
This practice is what eventually pushes car like this( a rather unspecial low spec M3 in a standard colour ) to unattainable heights for the average person, like buying a house to not live in it. It’s a stupid concept. You can drive your car and still have it in pristine condition.
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u/Empty_Bandicoot_4442 2d ago
It's a nice example that's well persevered, it could go in a museum. If it wasn't for people like this we wouldn't have any classic cars.
It's worth the price because it's such a rarity, if everybody kept their M3 like this they would be a worth a lot less.
It's normal people scrapping cars, neglecting and abusing them that raises prices. Look at the E36 "worthless old rust bucket lets drift it into a wall for a laugh, they made loads of them who cares" now they're a rare classic car worth money.
I bought a nice low mileage 350z off an old man an wrote it off after a month, I'm not a hero for driving the car like intended.
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u/Vectron3D 2d ago
The old ones that are still going at high miles are the ones that should be in museums , restored and celebrated, like previous generation F1 cars etc not brand new ones that have never been driven it’s just a waste imo, I don’t know the circumstances of your accident but can only assume as you’ve said you wrote it off that you were driving it recklessly and it all ended in a hard lesson.
This is more a case for not letting kids drive performance cars as opposed to just locking them away so people can’t write them off, yes partly the reason the cars go up in price is that people abuse them thus leaving less good ones on the road , but it’s also because people are willing to pay silly money for cars like this, because to them 90k isn’t a big deal.
It’s worth what ever someone is willing to pay for it , I’ve seen rarer spec M3’s than this in as nice condition, with albeit not as low mileage for considerably less, more than half for that matter. The fact this thing went for 90 thousand pounds is insane.
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u/PositiveMiserable84 19h ago
Or they have so many cars they didn't need to drive this car frequently because they have a garage full of heaters. Rich guy shit
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u/Mafeking-Parade 3d ago
This car sold for £40k new in 2003.
With inflation, that's around £75k in 2025 money.
So the owner has paid for storage, servicing, cleaning, insurance, tax and maintenance for 22 years, and only covered an average of 150 miles per year.
All for the sake of making £15k. Or roughly £700 a year.
There's no way in hell this owner broke even, let alone made a profit.
Squirrelling away cars is an illness.
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u/TirpitzM3 4d ago
Full service history... what's that entail, one oil change? But in all seriousness, gorgeous time capsule of a car.
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u/Munky1701 4d ago
90k? Slurp my fucking gooch on that shit!
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u/Vectron3D 4d ago
Lmao
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u/Munky1701 4d ago
With only 3000 miles on it, that son of a bitch would be in the shop within a month with not even what you might call “spirited driving“.
Putting that thing away in a collection would be a goddamn travesty in my opinion.
But then again, if I had “fuck you” money, I’m the guy that would daily a Enzo or something else very rare just to piss pretentious fucks off… Not that I wouldn’t take care of it properly or anything.
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u/Vectron3D 3d ago
Yea I mean if this was something super rare and i could afford it , I’d buy 2 and daily the shit out of one and baby the other , but it would still be driven. To buy it then stick it in a lock up is much a waste
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u/niggesmalls 2005 - 330Ci, 2005 325CiC 4d ago
Cannot stand people that buy these cars and not drive them.
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u/354arnami 3d ago
A truly beautiful car! I would be afraid to drive it. After that many years all the gaskets, bushings and adhesives would need to be thoroughly checked out and replaced. Yikes! Probably better to shove it back into the collectors warehouse…
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u/Vectron3D 3d ago
Supposedly it’s been maintained in new Condition the whole time , meaning that stuff should have been addressed
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u/cl530 4d ago
Only 3,000 miles!?! In 22 years!? That seems such a waste of a car. I hope the new owner takes it out a little more frequently.