944 purchase strategy question.....

SO944 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:36 pm

Hi guys, Im not into BMWs even M3s Im afraid, yes i know they are great cars but not for me. I have owned a BMW Z4M and used to drive an Alpina but there is something about the BMW looks and drive that i dont enjoy. If i was going that route it would be a slightly later car anyway. Each to their own!

Re Enthusiast owned - this is my preferred route especially if a good S2 (or potential to be good) comes up.

Im tooled up with buyers checklist, endoscope, magnet etc (can you tell Ive bought too many cars over the years) :roll:

pauly · **Posted:** Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:33 pm

AlpineTurbo wrote:

pauly wrote:

SO944 wrote:

Thanks to all, yes Pauly "purchase strategy" was just an attention seeking tag line to get some interest/response, what it should've said was help needed in making a slightly more sensible decision :oops:

Well I have to admit I'm still undecided, maybe I should just go for the 1997 2.2 VTEC Prelude, seems like a safer bet :lol:

ok ok I'm joking... I think!

I'd buy an M3 ahead of any 944 except a turbo, and I'm not joking...

Being an M3 owner now I would recheck the values.

If you did your research I apologise, but it seems alot of people buy these thinking they are £6k for a good one and not much more than a 3 series in terms of running costs.

The OP was suggesting £10k, and as it happens I did plenty of research on M3 running costs around 8 years ago when I very nearly bought a absolutely mint E36 with 40k on it from a retired guy I knew. He used to run his own bodyshop and also worked for BMW. The thing that ultimately stopped me buying it was it was black and I knew it would be a PITA to keep it looking pristine. That and I favoured the power delivery of a similar output 944 turbo.

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