05-15-2012, 06:04 PM | #67 |
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Thanks, I missed that.
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05-15-2012, 06:04 PM | #68 |
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Decoupling the xenons from the premium package is great. This is the only option I really wanted but missed out on my '12. I'm not loving the price increase...
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05-15-2012, 06:17 PM | #69 |
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i prefer auto, but i dont mind my manual, especially considering i am the only one that drives my car.
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05-15-2012, 07:33 PM | #71 |
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328 with my same configuration year over year ends up being $1100 more.
Thats a pretty hefty jump for no extra features! You really get hosed when you add the premium package. |
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Navigation does not appear to be a "standalone option," in that if you order it as an individual option, you are required to order BMW assist with it, which adds $650 more to the cost. So you're paying $2800 bare minimum if you want to have navigation included (at least that's how I read the option sheet). At that point you might as well pay the extra $300 for the full technology package to get the heads up display, BMW apps, and smartphone integration you wouldn't otherwise get if you just tried to order the navigation/bmw assist combo. Last edited by verbs; 05-15-2012 at 08:05 PM.. |
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05-15-2012, 07:55 PM | #73 | |
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For my part, it ticks me off that to get the one thing I want I have to buy over $1000 worth of stuff I don't want. I don't know about the rest of you, but I buy specific cars for specific purposes. My 3er is my daily driver. It's not my people/stuff hauler. It's not my "go out for a fancy evening car," and it's not my "let's go find some twisty roads car." I just want a high quality car for basic use and that'll make a good hand-me-down when my nephews and nieces are of driving age. The 3er used to be exactly that. Now I don't know what the hell BMW are trying to make it be. They keep making it bigger, when there's a 5, 6 and 7 for that purpose. And they keep making it more and more difficult to buy a basic car, equipped just as one desires -- not junk you don't want and with the junk you do want. At the rate BMW are going with eliminating the true a la carte ordering capability, I'm going to end up buy a Japanese car instead. I'm griping here on this forum, but I've also expressed these same thoughts to my dealer, and he's not so keen about it either, especially as he knows he's headed toward losing a customer who's bought five cars from him since 2007 and I have two more children for whom to buy cars in the next 3 years. With the price of the 3er going as it is, they may well end up with Porsches or something Japanese instead.
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It could also mean the head unit is ready for satellite radio, but it doesn't include the satellite radio modules that go inside your car to get the signal. My fiancee's car (a Mazda CX9) was like this, she ordered it without satellite radio, but the car was satellite ready, in that all we had to do was install the satellite radio modules and the head unit was able to handle satellite radio like it was an OEM feature. I ordered the modules for roughly $250 and paid $125 for the install. Retail was $300 on the modules, so I would expect to pay $400-$500 so to buy and have installed the Sirius modules on our cars if they don't come with it. Last edited by verbs; 05-15-2012 at 08:07 PM.. |
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and for someone who buys his kids BMWs, i dont understand why youre complaining about small pricing issues. |
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It's not about the price, it's about being forced to have things you didn't want but there's a very simple reason for BMW's decision to reduce the number of configurations in which you can order their cars. It streamlines their production and makes it cheaper for them. I certainly wish each option was available individually but the industry as a whole is headed in the opposite direction, a friend of mine was looking at the new Passat a few weeks ago and I went with him so I can tell you that car has seen its option possibilities massively condensed basically into S, SE and SEL lines with very few other options.
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05-15-2012, 09:09 PM | #82 |
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It's pretty ridiculous if you ask me. 328i xDrive with the configuration I want (not top of the line) would be $51,125 which puts it in Audi A6 range. I guess, so long my bmw hopes.
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05-15-2012, 09:28 PM | #84 |
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WTF? 1600 bucks for absolutely nothing but split folding bench seats?
I want a 6speed manual 328 M-Sport with xenons/cold weather. Could care less about the tech, gps, harmon kardon etc. So what am i looking at for this according the guide? my PC wont download the PDF's for some reason
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Thank you BMW! That is way better for me. Now I just need them to release the F31. I've got all my order codes down! (I hope, the wagon my have some things different...) |
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