I don't get the "He was talking all E36 M3 about my car" thing

I understand a lot of the Boy Racers are getting out of the Japanese Sport Compact Tuner craze and diving into another Japanese spawned craze, drifting. Unfortunately, the E36 M3 has depreciated enough in value, that they're easily enough in reach for disreputable young adults to get their hands on them. But, this doesn't mean that the E36 M3 deserves such a surly reputation. Some E36 M3 owners are actual enthusiast that enjoy the car for BWM designed it to be

.....sure their interiors are kinda chinsy, but compared to the other crap being produced at the time, it was oranges to lemons.

Huh?

Are you commenting about the filter of E36 M3=excrement?

People around here really like the E36 M3. They don't think that it's a piece of E36 M3. They think that it is THE E36 M3.

Like: "I have an E36 M3. That E36 M3 rocks!"

I used the search option to see what I could find on the E36 M3 and the 'He was talking all E36 M3 about my car' came up a number of times.

Its nothing new to me, the E30 crowd often repeat such things about the car; 'BMW compromised too much when designing the E36 M3', 'they sold out on the enthusiast minded image that they created with the 2002 and the E30', etc.

I'm glad this isnt a message board that i'm going to have to be leery about, constantly guarding what I say about the car. I love my M3 for what it was designed to be, not a drift or illegal street racer, but a car designed for people who have a passion for driving.

-Joel

Unclear post warning!

(this isn't Cordbell reincarnate is it?)

iolite, head over to "Project cars"... we've got a 96 under "completed" and a '97 under "other cool cars around the office".

Thanks TIm!

If we are calling a car E36 M3 we will now refer to it as Turbo Grand Prix, the E36 M3 is still E36 M3 ;)

Or Touareg (or however you spell it). Narrowly beat out the Tahoe Hybrid on the "Bang for the Buck" index, and I see ya'll don't think very highly of it, either.

If by bang for the buck you mean how screwed you got for how much money you spent then you are dead on ;)

Actually I love the Touareg II, The 2004/5 were just poor examples with lots of electrical failures.

To clarify Salanis' post-the automatic profanity filter on this board automatically replaces "s***", and all of its derivatives, with "E36 M3". Why? Dunno. Been that way for quite a while. The F-bomb becomes "Berkeley", another car favored by GRM but resigned to second-class status by the IT guys.

Ahhh, I've seen the Berkeley used number of times in a single post, but I didn't get it. The context in which it was being used kinda made the sentence flow a little weird. After working a 14hr day on the night shift, I guess I shouldn't be too suprised that I didn't catch that.

For fun try to figure out what Bob Costas is the filter word for ;)

douche bag?

nope that isn't it

Electrical failures? You should know by now Germans are great at engineering mechanically sound cars, but they could always learn a few things about electronics from the Japanese. Newer BMW's have a particular achilles heel, control modules. I would say 80-90% of the electrical problems of todays BMW's are caused by faulty control modules, aside from that, they are as reliable as hell.

Non sequitors? You may not know yet but many Posters will just start throwing things out there, but you will quickly learn a few things about being a smartass from regular Posters. Newer GUY's have a particular tendency, random posting. I would say that 80-90% of the griefing problems of new GUY's are caused by posting in defense of a system no one has slighted, aside from that, we're really welcoming.

Salanis wrote: Non sequitors? You may not know yet but many Posters will just start throwing things out there, but you will quickly learn a few things about being a smartass from regular Posters. Newer GUY's have a particular tendency, random posting. I would say that 80-90% of the griefing problems of new GUY's are caused by posting in defense of a system no one has slighted, aside from that, we're really welcoming.

The only board I've been a part of that's like the GRM board, is the board at mr2oc.com.

You'll know you've been here a shade too long when you start using 'berkeley!' out loud in moments of stress. 'E36 M3' just takes too long to say and doesn't naturally flow from the mouth when the wrench slips and you punch something painful.

And calling your kids Bob Costas doesn't sound so bad in public.

I take offense at the remarks about the E36 M3 interior being cheezy. It is easily remedied with a few simple tweaks as shown below: