My first BMW - What's yours?

[TheAss3t]

2002 530i.

[Artko80]

F30 320i

[Rivanov]

F40 118i High Executive M-Sport

[Rono63]

A F32 was my first now have a G82.
I miss the silver wheels.

[Bruse Wayne]

The “clown shoe”

Ended up selling to my best friend because I barely fit in it [ e46 M3 replaced it ] so here we are 20yrs later and I still visit.

[sb_12345]

e46 320d 2004 was my first BMW, drive it to this day 467000km on the ODO and still going strong!

[Westside Guy]

This was my first BMW, a 1991 E30. I took it for a test drive and told the salesman that it was sold!

[IcewaterPete]

Originally Posted by Westside Guy

This was my first BMW, a 1991 E30. I took it for a test drive and told the salesman that it was sold!

It looks like an E36. Very sharp!

[G30M]

first pre LCI 340i Touring g21 - demo
last LCI 550i sedan - demo

pie in the sky dreamer wish - 50e X5 phev

[warsaw04]

2004 E46 330ci. I’ve been hooked since.

[ntx150]

Got my first BMW at 23 back in 2017, E90 318d Sport Plus (LCI 2011), loved it so much.

Had the factory LED headlights, the previous owner fitted it with the 19 inch 313 alloys which gave the car so much presence on the road.

[Nickynines]

off the rip, 2000 m5 imola red. bought in 7 years old, still have it

[Duhl82@proton.me]

Mine was an e91

[hihowareyougood]

N55 F87. It was a COVID purchase early last year, and the greatest decision I've made in a long time!

[jefe2000]

Like in the previous post, my first BMW is the one I purchased in early 2022: a new-to-me 2018 F87 M2 LCI.

I don't consider myself a BMW guy. I'm a small-sports-car with shift-em-yourself gears kinda guy. I came from a 2010 5MT WRX hatchback.

Round about when I hit 10 years of ownership of the WRX, I started looking for my next small hatchback or coupé, AWD/RWD, manual transmission car. I was looking at cars like the Golf R, Veloster N, Mini Cooper S/JCW, and similar. That's when I happened upon the Throttle House review of the M240i. Since I'm not a BMW guy, I hadn't really heard of the car. I fell in love instantly.

As I learned more about the M240i, I discovered the M2. I'd found my true love. So I spent the next two years watching the the used market for my perfect spec to pop up: LCI (non-comp), LBB, moonroof, 6MT, one-owner, CA-owned, exec package, under 30K miles, $55K or less.

In December '21 the exact spec I was looking for popped up at a CarMax in SoCal. I jumped on it, had it transferred to my local CarMax the day after it appeared online, spent 24 hours with it during CarMax's 24-hour test drive, and purchased it the next day. That was just over a year ago.

A year later, my love affair with M2 hasn't ceased. I think I'll get at least a decade out of this car. And, with how the car market is rapidly shifting under us, who knows: maybe I'll go 15 years in this one. It's the last of the good ones, I think.

[snareman]

2007 335.

[GTS Daddy]

Custom build 2007, E92 335 back in early 2007. What, a, car!

Then BMW bought it back for faulty waste gates.

[oneofew]

Although these pics were taken sometime in the nineties , here is my first BMW , 89 325IS, purchased at Crevier BMW.

[Eugene]

First one was an 05 e46 ZHP. Glad to be back in the 3er fam

[Xolinlevh]

2015 X1 - totaled less than a year in
2015 X1 - replacement
2018 330i - lease
2015 x5 35d - current

[Dan B]

I have driven numerous BMWs but have never owned one. I ordered my own on April 3rd. It is a M440i xDrive Gran Coupe. I cannot wait.

[SmokieRiver]

2001 330xi bought new. My longest kept and highest mileage owned vehicle to date.