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Originally Posted by drvai
The base price for a 335 coupe is 40k. What was the base price for a 330 coupe when the E46 M3 was sold?
Maybe that's a good way of having an estimate. It's all about marketing.
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It was around $12,000 MSRP difference... for example, MY 2003: 325Ci=$30,295; 330Ci=$36,295; M3=$48,195
http://www.caranddriver.com/cars/394...-seriesm3.html ...add $1000 to the M3 for the Gas Guzzler tax to that difference, also.
I don't think that anybody will ever see that
little price difference between the top 3 Series and the comparable M3 ever again.
Just for an exercise, I would like my M3
Sedan with the M-DCT, Navigation, metallic paint, iPod/USB adapter, extended leather and Assist/Bluetooth. Those options alone are almost $11,000, including the Gas Guzzler Tax ($1700, estimated), using current 3 Series option prices. Notice that there's no power seats, no 19" wheels, no M-Drive, no EDC, no PDC, no Comfort Access, no Individual Audio... that's another $9,000 easily.
So a base price north of $60,000 will make a fully equipped M3 Sedan some $80,000+, a Coupe some $2000 extra and a Convertible very close to $90,000. Around $55,000 for the Sedan, $57,000 for the Coupe and $65 for the Convertible are my estimates, as I said before.
Regardless, whatever the final base price is, the M3 will officially leave the current price bracket for good, unless a stripper is ordered and even then a Coupe will be
at least $9000 more than the MY2006 E46 M3...
