Courtesy of my Mexican Brother-in-Law who ponied up a lot of pesos for the privilege. Drives great, handles awesome. Needs more power, I would suggest a diesel. Actually, I would suggest the new GTI (but I didn't dare tell him that.) :D

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noooiiiccceee!!!!! supercharge/turbo it FTW

time to move to mexico, guys.

time for a new floor mat...

Anyway to get it legal in the USA or maybe have him buy you one and keep it with current Mexico tags.

Sweet, I would go for a 130i but no complaints for 20k new BMW

Would it be possible for him to drive it up here and sell it too you? How does the foreign title thing work?

im not even trying to be mean when i say this...but how does mexico have brand new bmws coming in when there economy is doing shitty? I mean thats cool and all but i dont get it....and o wtf is with the auto?

Have you been around Cabo??? Its really nice and a lot of rich people live around there. In fact I wouldnt be a bit surprised if all of the poor people have moved out of mexico and its nothing but middle and upper class living there.

Anyway to get it legal in the USA or maybe have him buy you one and keep it with current Mexico tags.

No way, it would be way to cost prohibitive. It doesn't meet US safety standards and would need to be modified, and it's price is super-inflated by tariffs. Believe it or not that car cost him the equivalent of $36,000 USD. Quite a pretty penny for a base model BMW. Good thing he's a good insurance salesman, eh?

There are plenty of cars in the world that we don't get here, and plenty here they don't get around the world. In the case of most European cars, this is because the automakers would rather build and real-world test in Europe to work out the kinks before releasing to a fickle American (myself included) buying public. That wasn't the case, for example, when Mercedes built their first SUV. No one wanted SUVs in Europe, so they built and released them here without testing back in 1997. It was a complete disaster in terms of problems per unit, one which MBZ is still reeling from.

im not even trying to be mean when i say this...but how does mexico have brand new bmws coming in when there economy is doing shitty? I mean thats cool and all but i dont get it....and o wtf is with the auto?

No tmean at all. For the record, I've never, ever seen a late model 5, 6 or a 7 Series in Mexico, with Mexican plates. I think I saw a 3 series once. There is a dealership in Hermosillo (Google Earth) where he bought it, and I plan on taking my new-to-me 7 down there for inspections. The techs were trained in Germany, but don't charge nearly as much.

He bought the auto because it's his mobile office. ;)

Have you been around Cabo??? Its really nice and a lot of rich people live around there. In fact I wouldnt be a bit surprised if all of the poor people have moved out of mexico and its nothing but middle and upper class living there.

It would be like that, but alas, the middle and upper class of Mexico need gardeners too.

supernice. needs a diesel, but still. yeah.

(autos rule!)

needs a manual, possibly diesel but anything shoudl prove more fun than a GTi.... fwd guys come on.

Ya I just came home from Cancun and there were so many of those around! I think they are pretty nice. Especially the 130i with 258hp! Can't go wrong with that.

I read they will be brining it to Canada mid 2007.

:redspot

Chris

That's sweet, I occasionly see one floating around here. Though I don't ever remember seeing Euro style Mexico plates.

im not sure if i like it or not?????? :(

im not even trying to be mean when i say this...but how does mexico have brand new bmws coming in when there economy is doing shitty? I mean thats cool and all but i dont get it....and o wtf is with the auto?

Not everyone in Mexico lives in adobe houses and takes siestas all day. Not even close. You're watching too many Speedy Gonzales cartoons :stickoutt There's a middle and upper class there, just like in every other major country in the world.

nice it looks good

I like it. LEDs in the door handles ala 3 series, I see.

bleh... another 120i...

Ya I just came home from Cancun and there were so many of those around! I think they are pretty nice. Especially the 130i with 258hp! Can't go wrong with that.

I read they will be brining it to Canada mid 2007.

:redspot

Chris

Not sure if they got it here, but I saw a lady driving down Cordova St. in Vancouver yesterday in one. It looks FUN :)

yeah interesting style...and different

time to move to mexico, guys.
yo me voy primero!

Although its an old thread, it looks great, that it a great color for that car, but i want to see one in red

I love the style of that car i would love to drive one

Was your brother in Law in Vegas sometime in October by chance? heh, saw a white 1 series when I was there... longshot, but meh...

lol thats the best looking new bmw out right now.....the 3, 5,6, and 7 series are all disgusting....its a shame bmw had it all right.....but the 1 series is sick..

Lmao, the E87 forum has to be the slowest forum in the world, this same topic has been on the main page for the past like 2 months. Anyways clean looking car. :)

I need one of those. Kinda is like an E90 only... "cute". No one heard me say that.:shifty

yo me voy primero!


Andale andale!!!!:D

i totally dig it

meh, it's kinda okay. I'd definitely rather have that than something like a VW rabbit

nice!! man i would kill for a 135i tho....oh the hawt sechs it would be

i dont get it