Z4M coupe owners.....Why did you sell your car?

[Bumcrack]

Hi

Noticed there seems to be a quite a few Z4M coupes for sale lately, most of them with less than 20K on the clock.

Wondered why owners were selling so quickly, surely it's more of a keeper.

Is there a down side to M Coupe ownership that you only appreciate once you've owned the car?

Regards

[shunt]

Not as far as I'm concerned, deffo a keeper. Goes like stink and looks great with CSL's on.

[ghiblicup]

not getting rid of mine until my e92 csl is ready !

Could be some time.......

I love the m coupe to bits

[carl_w]

The lack of replies could be explained by the fact that if they're Z4M Coupe owners, they haven't sold their cars...

[jezzaaa]

I would have thought alot of owners (me included!) love their cars and don't want to sell. Which for those of us who bought new ones, is just as well...the part exchange prices are a bit shocking! I for one will be holding on to mine until the finance agreement runs out and I can just give it back. At the rate it's going, it'll never be worth the £20,000 guaranteed balloon value in 2 years time! Thankfully, I'm not responsible for the difference in value! :-)

[Bumcrack]

Any replies to the original question?

Come on lads don't be shy

[fredd1e]

I think most cars were BMW management cars that have to be released onto the market and not necessarily punters trade ins or otherwise.

[taffyracer]

I sold mine because i got hacked off with it, i bought it as a stopgap really between an E46 M3 and an E92 M3, planned on keeping it 2 years but after 5 months of ownership i started to get the itch. The car was great, great drive and it made me smile but for me it was simply not refined or comfortable enough for long journeys, I used to love the 1st hour of my journeys and then spend the next 3 hours wishing it would end. The ride was bloody awful for a car of this sort, the dash build quality is ok but the bulkhead plastics and other bits were p*ss poor and rattled really badly, for a 48K car it was shocking. The depreciation also worried me alot so in the end all these factors forced to get into something bigger, I bought an E92 M3 and the difference in refinement and comfort is HUGE, i know they're different cars but the gap shouldn't be that big IMO.

The problem as I see it is that it's not raw enough or impractical enough to keep as a sunday blast car as you would wiht something like a caterham, but it's also not practical enough for long journeys, it's sort of in no mands land and I suspect that might explain why it only really makes sense to a few