08-14-2014, 09:33 PM | #23 |
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I often tell people that my local shopping plaza's parking lot (in San Francisco) is like a showroom for Germany's latest and greatest... but I've seen only one... an Estoril Blue m235i.
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08-14-2014, 10:21 PM | #24 |
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Yeah, I have yet to see a 2 in the wild. I don't drive a ton, and I've already gotten multiple honks + thumbs ups from random people. Kinda fun to be in a relatively rare car.
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08-14-2014, 10:34 PM | #25 |
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there's a white 228 m sport in fair lawn i see regularly.
at my dealership we've sold 4 that i can list off the top of my head plus our original 235. so is this the "spotted" thread now orrrrrrr
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08-15-2014, 01:59 AM | #30 |
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I've never seen a single M235i or 228 on the road here in Los Angeles. And Im driving from Laurel Canyon to Culver City everyday (through West Hollywood and Beverly Hills).
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08-15-2014, 06:46 AM | #31 |
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I don't think I've seen any on the road in my area, either.
Isn't that a bid odd? The 2-series is supposed to be a fairly high volume model, isn't it? I mean, it's not like it's an i8! |
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08-15-2014, 08:20 AM | #32 |
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I haven't seen one in Orlando outside of the dealership until this week. On Tuesday I saw an AW Msport 228i, and on Wednesday I saw a EB M235i on 535 in the Windermere/Winter Garden area as I was pulling out of my neighborhood.
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08-15-2014, 08:33 AM | #34 |
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I live in a major Metropolitan area - NYC - aside from my car, I saw another 2 on the way to the MetLife stadium for the Ultimate Driving event, I was driving my previous E90 there.
I saw a new M4 in Austin Yellow metallic near the Times Sq though. |
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08-15-2014, 08:52 AM | #35 |
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I hadn't seen a single one until the day I took delivery of my 228. On the way home from the dealer I saw another AW similar to mine in the lane next to me. I kid you not.
Haven't seen another one since. Very surprising since my office parking garage is basically a Wide World of German Cars lot. |
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08-15-2014, 10:18 AM | #36 |
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Actually the 2 series is very low volume, the ytd sales project out to 6,000 units for the year in the US. Sales ytd are pretty flat with the 1 series. I attribute this to no inventory at retail but I don't understand why. I know they geared up the i3 in the same factory but you can't sell product if there is no inventory. I think they may sell as many convertibles as coupes since entry level BMW convertibles always are big sellers and the 4 series conv got really expensive.
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08-15-2014, 01:04 PM | #43 |
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I've never seen another in Rhode Island...
People are scared of rear wheel drive cars up here....as soon as the x-drives show up I'm sure I'll see a ton....it's the same story with the 1 series...you never see them here. |
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08-15-2014, 01:16 PM | #44 |
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A colleague of mine also has an M235i, so I see his in the office garage almost every day. Other than that, I've only seen about 2 228s here in SW CT.
It was the same with the E82 in 2008. First two years, I saw almost no other 1 series on the road. It took about 2-3 years before I started seeing them with some regularity (relatively speaking). |
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