Cars - again!

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Right, forgetting the other thread, does anyone have or have had a BMW 6 series coupe (2006 onwards) - Either Petrol or Diesel?

Are they any good?

Dunno if they are any good to drive, but I couldn't spend cash on anythng so pig ugly unless it was very cheap and for a joke.

[Sockpuppet]

What piece of automotive garbage are you slumming it in then?

Ford Focus with 200k on the clock. Then again I do a 1000 miles a week, I don't need a nice car.

[Mich the Tester]

Yep, someone's just touched on a gripe of mine; why do the two door versions of saloon cars cost about 10k eurothingies more than the saloon?

What's the point of spending a lot more to get a lot less?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Lunchtime drinkies?

:-)

Fixed it now - attempting to type too quickly - sadly the days of the lunchtime pint (or two) are long gone.

[Support Monkey]

Company car tax and ze Germans sell them cheap to leasing companies. A BMW can hardly be described as "Quality".

Before moving into IT i was in the motor trade and i can say without a shadow of a doubt that German cars are superior to all other cars in their price range, build quality is far better on VW Audi or BMW compared to other makes, just as an example if the outer door on your modeo was dented they can repair with a door skin (basically the outer door was welded back onto the inner door)however BMW thought that this would compromise the build quality, rust protection, safety of the car as they could not control how/who fitted a skin so for all BMWs you can only buy a complete door

[AtW]

Lunchtime drinkies?

Either that or bad schooling - that damned Thatcher's stolen milk caused it for sure.

[AtW]

Yep, someone's just touched on a gripe of mine; why do the two door versions of saloon cars cost about 10k eurothingies more than the saloon?

Relatively low production run results in higher costs that can't be offer by reduction in materials.

HTH

[Support Monkey]

Yep, someone's just touched on a gripe of mine; why do the two door versions of saloon cars cost about 10k eurothingies more than the saloon?

What's the point of spending a lot more to get a lot less?

The body on a 4 door is different to the 2 door in that they have pillars in the middle to give strength for a car with 2 doors, the doors are bigger and the strength has to be built into the body/ work roof structure especially a coupe, pushing the price up from the standard saloon car

[AtW]

The body on a 4 door is different to the 2 door in that they have pillars in the middle to give strength for a car with 2 doors, the doors are bigger and the strength has to be built into the body/ work roof structure especially a coupe, pushing the price up from the standard saloon car

Also two doors needs to be crash tested separately.

[Mich the Tester]

The body on a 4 door is different to the 2 door in that they have pillars in the middle to give strength for a car with 2 doors, the doors are bigger and the strength has to be built into the body/ work roof structure especially a coupe, pushing the price up from the standard saloon car

Cool! I'll stick to saloons then.