Some of you may already know the news from Facebook, but I wanted to share the full story.
A couple days ago, my Sponsor, Katie was driving us back to our hotel room from running some errands on post. On the way back, she wanted to stop and check out an M3 sitting in front of the BMW dealership. Being BMW fans ourselves, we clamored to accompany her.
We looked at the cars on the lot and then accompanied Katie while she spoke with the head salesman. That's when we found out BMW offers their cars to US military members for 15% off. And I could get an insanely low interest rate.
Let me back up for a minute here. Ever since I first saw one on display at the mall in Colorado Springs, I've wanted a BMW M3 more than any other car. As for Sharay, she got to drive one for a little while and would love to have one again.
Unfortunately, BMW is going to stop making M3s with a V8 engine this August and will return to an inline 6. Well, we didn't want an inline 6. Plus, the V8 version is pretty much perfected. We didn't want to get the new model before all the kinks have been worked out. Finally, the M3 only came with a V8 in the current model, so it's going to become a limited edition quite soon. If we wanted one, it was now or never.
However, we weren't the ones there to get a car. Instead we listened to the details while Katie looked at the dealer's available M3s (she ended up getting one). We expressed some interest, but didn't really say anything. When we returned to our room, I crunched the numbers on our budget and determined that if we traded in our 328i, we'd be able to afford it.
The next day, after returning from my trip to Amberg, I linked up with Sharay and we walked to the BMW dealership. We expressed our interest and looked at the available M3s. None of them had the options we wanted. We talked about ordering one to our specs directly from the factory, but production on the 2011 V8s ends in August and we were too late. Luckily, the dealership had a few already on order, and they could make changes to match what we wanted.
We slept on it for another night to double check the budget and make a final decision on the options we wanted. In the end, we decided to go big or go home and get exactly what we wanted. Thankfully, it fit our budget.
Today, we walked back over there, paid our down payment, and ordered our car.
I'm kind of bummed we'll be giving up our 328i after only 6 months. It was a good car, and it treated us well. However, it's worth giving it up to have this sitting in our garage:
A couple days ago, my Sponsor, Katie was driving us back to our hotel room from running some errands on post. On the way back, she wanted to stop and check out an M3 sitting in front of the BMW dealership. Being BMW fans ourselves, we clamored to accompany her.
We looked at the cars on the lot and then accompanied Katie while she spoke with the head salesman. That's when we found out BMW offers their cars to US military members for 15% off. And I could get an insanely low interest rate.
Let me back up for a minute here. Ever since I first saw one on display at the mall in Colorado Springs, I've wanted a BMW M3 more than any other car. As for Sharay, she got to drive one for a little while and would love to have one again.
Unfortunately, BMW is going to stop making M3s with a V8 engine this August and will return to an inline 6. Well, we didn't want an inline 6. Plus, the V8 version is pretty much perfected. We didn't want to get the new model before all the kinks have been worked out. Finally, the M3 only came with a V8 in the current model, so it's going to become a limited edition quite soon. If we wanted one, it was now or never.
However, we weren't the ones there to get a car. Instead we listened to the details while Katie looked at the dealer's available M3s (she ended up getting one). We expressed some interest, but didn't really say anything. When we returned to our room, I crunched the numbers on our budget and determined that if we traded in our 328i, we'd be able to afford it.
The next day, after returning from my trip to Amberg, I linked up with Sharay and we walked to the BMW dealership. We expressed our interest and looked at the available M3s. None of them had the options we wanted. We talked about ordering one to our specs directly from the factory, but production on the 2011 V8s ends in August and we were too late. Luckily, the dealership had a few already on order, and they could make changes to match what we wanted.
We slept on it for another night to double check the budget and make a final decision on the options we wanted. In the end, we decided to go big or go home and get exactly what we wanted. Thankfully, it fit our budget.
Today, we walked back over there, paid our down payment, and ordered our car.
I'm kind of bummed we'll be giving up our 328i after only 6 months. It was a good car, and it treated us well. However, it's worth giving it up to have this sitting in our garage:
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