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Plus isn't this M enthusiast just spending his money to confirm that SMB is the best BMW color? |
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05-23-2019, 11:06 PM | #68 | |
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I bet you not even one.. This vehicle has a target demographic, which is young consumers with a median income of under 100k, not the Rockefellers or Bloomberg.. https://www.bmwblog.com/2015/11/02/b...ith-m2-and-x1/ This option makes very little sense and I'm starting to believe BMW is offering it for the publicity and apparently it's working.. |
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05-24-2019, 12:03 AM | #69 |
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There is literally a thread about this billionaire right under this one.
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With a billion dollars you can afford to have 5 ex-wives all driving X5s and a personal butler; why would you want to purchase an M2 when you can get Lambos and Ferraris or even some high-end Mercedes. Not even try to sound arrogant, just saying. Say you do spring for an M2, I assume a wealthy business savvy person would not spend 24k on paint, on principle.. I could be wrong.. |
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05-24-2019, 12:19 AM | #71 | |
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https://www.instagram.com/fuxwithmichael/?hl=en Plenty of Ferraris, Lambos, McLarens, etc there and an Austin Yellow M2 |
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That would be a nightmare to deal with after an accident... trying to color match!! Good luck!
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05-24-2019, 05:49 AM | #78 | |||
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My Rolls comes up to $525,000, a slightly little more expensive than an M2, so if the paint option cost me 25k, it's still within the realm of being reasonable. Just because we found the one eccentric rich person with a few bucks to burn on a M2, doesn't mean reasonable rich people would follow suit and make such a poor financial move on a vehicle that has very little pizzazz to their caliber of vehicles. I'll tell you what, you find me one other human on this planet that spent 25 to 50k as Mr. Fux did on an M2's paint option and I'll change my tune. BMW is simply offering this option to create buzz and I commend them because it's working so far. They really don't expect anyone to bite. Watch this story pick up more traction with auto journalists within the next few months and in turn free advertisement for the M2. |
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05-24-2019, 06:06 AM | #80 |
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Is this a decimal error? Because this looks like a decimal error.
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05-24-2019, 06:31 AM | #82 |
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Color match
It will be the same as with all repainting jobs, there is a production color with color code from BMW and a repaint/repair color with a color code for each color of BMW. Production color and repair/repaint color (with BMW) is not 100% the same cause of different technologies of applying.
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05-24-2019, 06:40 AM | #84 |
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It canīt. The only more affordable way is post-production at a local paint shop done in repair/repaint color code from BMW but not in BMW production line in Leipzig.
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05-24-2019, 06:53 AM | #85 |
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As others say this is just the effort of having the car transported to the other plant, so the 24k are paying mostly the factory stops to have the car removed from one line to the other and returning it...and probably also some „scare-off" margin, so that not everyone opts in for that, what would cause BMW a huge logistics effort, if every 3rd order wants custom paint...
If it would be a easy thing for BMW, they would be happy to take your money and offer you individual color as they do for other models. But the circumstance simply do not allow them to do this. So this case here was probably to maintain a good relationship for a very good and special customer, as the austin yellow one has been. If you really want some custom paint (not wrap), find a very good paintjob company, pay them 8-10k and you have every color you can dream off, and also done almost the same way (everything removed incl. engine), so nobody would notice it at all, even with very detailed inspections... Good man-paintwork is always better than any robot, there are reasons why special luxury-car paintjobs are still done this way ;-) |
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Hmm base m2 and so much left to learn how to drive it properly
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Its not.
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