What is the best convertible (for me)?

jqp · « **Reply #40 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 04:55 am »

This is the actual vehicle - manufactured July 2011, shipped from Bremerhaven Germany to Brunswick, Georgia

These are iPhone 3gs images, better pics when I pick it up!

jqp · « **Reply #41 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 05:01 am »

Those seats are just waiting to grip me while I flip those paddle-shifters. It has 7 speed double clutch transmission

"the 335is uses a lightly reworked version of the N54 (twin-turbo) engine producing 320HP and 332lb-ft (with an overboost function boosting the torque to 370ft-lbs for 7 seconds) "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7nnmPJXsIQ

jqp · « **Reply #42 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 01:32 pm »

Anyone have experience negotiating a lease deal? I will be going in this am to try to get a good lease, I think for 12k miles per year.

zybar · « **Reply #43 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 01:57 pm »

Quote from: jqp on 27 Aug 2011, 01:32 pm

Anyone have experience negotiating a lease deal? I will be going in this am to try to get a good lease, I think for 12k miles per year.

Just shot you a PM.

Sweet looking ride!

George

TomS · « **Reply #44 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 02:04 pm »

Quote from: zybar on 27 Aug 2011, 01:57 pm

Just shot you a PM.

Sweet looking ride!

George

Beautiful car!

George will fix you up on the lease deal. Generally you need to know the cap cost (what you're paying for the car, plus some of the fees you aren't paying in cash), money factor (interest rate), residual value, fees, and miles/year (direclty affects residual). That all plugs into a simple formula usually. Most advise do not put cash equity into it for a variety of reasons. Don't let them make you think it's mysterious because it's a lease. It's just financing like anything else.

Good luck!

Tom

Poultrygeist · « **Reply #45 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 02:11 pm »

cheap, bullet proof, 25 mpg on regular, 0-60 in 6 seconds and arrogantly unrefined

jqp · « **Reply #46 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 04:42 pm »

I was able to find a few things thanks to a link zybar sent me - I have negotiated down about $60 per month on the lease on up 2k miles!

Of course there is always room to negotiate these things - I feel like I am merely getting a fair deal...

One perc - BMW driving experience at the SC plant!

Hopefully things will go smoothy from here on

zybar · « **Reply #47 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 04:43 pm »

Quote from: jqp on 27 Aug 2011, 04:42 pm

I was able to find a few things thanks to a link zybar sent me - I have negotiated down about $60 per month on the lease on up 2k miles!

Of course there is always room to negotiate these things - I feel like I am merely getting a fair deal...

One perc - BMW driving experience at the SC plant!

Hopefully things will go smoothy from here on

Happy to help out.

When do you get the car?

George

jqp · « **Reply #48 on:** 27 Aug 2011, 05:10 pm »

Today! This one just came in so they did the PMI earlier this morning. THey are putting in the all weather mats now

jqp · « **Reply #49 on:** 29 Aug 2011, 02:25 am »

I was going to do a couple of body shots today, but it get dark before I finished the yardwork - possibly will get a few in a day or so.

I had thought that run-flats would ride stiff, but with the suspension on this car it feels almost like my like my Navigator, which has gas bags...

This thing will do 0-60 in 5 seconds flat, if you let the automatic shift for you. Haven't tried that yet since it is not broken in yet, but I have had it up to 120mph! We have out=r own little autobahn between Charlotte and Rock Hill