YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is my dream car!! Same color...same everything!!! Congrats!!
WOW!!!


That is so frickin cool!! And, it is a great substitute for a small dick!!

 

congrats, i love smg!!!

 

Ern's...your the fucking man!!!
AWSOME!

"prood of the pudding" ??

 

Definitely the stock rims in 19" are PHATTY.

I just can't believe you passed up that pimp-daddy steel-grey metallic color.

Cool Ern, too bad I won't be around for a ride in Nov.

 

WELCOME BROTHA!!!



Only thing.... i dont know if i would get that Imola red color... i dont know why, but they seem like they are really hard to sell. Meaning if you look through the classifed, you see alot of 2001 Imola red M3s for sale... So think about resale....


Why not steel grey?


or Topaz blue....

 

dont listen to these fools. Red is a HOT color.

smurf blue looks good and stands out, but its smurf blue... all the rest of the colors besides yellow are too stock BMW and scream BORING.

and the yellow, is well, a lil TOO extreme.

go for red.













oh and also, SMG is the way to go and the STOCK 19"s look better then most aftermarket options.

dont listen to Shawn.... hes old and bored SMG ownz the manual no matter what instance, having a clutch pedal has nothing to do with being able to hold a gear in a corner. SMG is simply a clutchless manual it isnt a automatic transmission.

SMG will without a doubt offer the most fun when beating on her, the most dependability, and the most comfortable day to day driving experiecne.

The only thing the US version of SMG may be lackign is the ability for a 5000 rpm launch. lol

But then again, they may have added launch control into the US trannies... I havent checked up. and if they havent, im sure they will by 03.


SMG OWNZ YOU.

 

I hate you. I'm soooooo jealous. I just saw 2 of those today, one black , one dark blue. I hated those drivers too. Cause it wasn't me.




But really, congrats on one kick ass car.

 

AN M3 WILL BE MY NEXT PURCHASE.........I JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN. I would mind a 02' with like a couple thousand mile to knock 10K off of the price!!!!!!!

 

well no shit adam that imola red will look good when you post pics of 19s with a fatty dish on it!!! Any color would look hott with those rims fool...

:P :P

 

crazy, hurry up and throw some phatty 19's on your shit so we can druel at your car too...holy shit imola red is fucking phat...i love that car and love the SMGII...that shit is raw...you cant talk on your cell phone smoke a blunt and shift at the same time now can you...no, so screw a clutch...get the factory 19's or buy the aftermarket SSR 19's...you are a lucky dude, enjoy your street warrior...Shyne

 

Great car, but you don't need to be told that. I drove a silver/black interior mc smg for a about an hour this May and I was hooked. It's absolutely amazing how quick you can make the thing shift by programming the tranny w/ the 4 little buttons. I found that the quickest shift was a little too abrupt for my tastes. I would get in SOOOOOOOOOOO much trouble in that car.

Congrats and all dat!!

 

looks hot with the factory 19s too fool.

 

Are you sure? There are still reports of late-build 2002s with bearing clearance problems. How do you know it will be corrected in time?

Ernie, do you know how to drive manual trans at all? If not, I'd STRONGLY suggest that you learn BEFORE you decide which tranny you want in your M3.

The SMG is cool as hell, but the fact is that I'd get the manual trans if I could do it all over again.



That is totally wrong. It is a fact that a manual trans M3 can beat the SMG version. Even with the shitty U.S. version of the European launch control.

Hey, he values my advice A LOT! Just like everyone else on this forum

Anyway, yes I did say that I wish I had gone manual instead of SMG.

NOW THOSE RIMS ARE HOT! LOOK AT THAT LIP! FUCK THAT BBS MESH LOOKING SHIT.

Most dependability? Are you kidding? There's TONS of shit to go wrong with the SMG when compared to the true manual tranny. The true manual will be the most dependable tranny option.

U.S. versions do not have the same launch control as the Euro cars.

 

That's just not true. No matter what you may think, there is NO GREATER CONTROL than the true manual tranny.

Yes, the SMG is good, but it does NOT offer the full control that you might expect.

At first, I loved it, but soon after I felt like something was missing. And it was- the clutch pedal.

Sorry, but I see the SMG as more of a gimmick than a tool of a true driver's car.

If I decide to sell my current car, and buy another M3, it will definitely be true manual trans.

 

Damn Ernie... that is waaay to fucking hot. You have become one of my newest heros. I love that car... and it will be mine eventually. Probably not until 2007 or so, but it will be mine .....

Anyway, congrats on the purchase and keep counting down those days!!

 

You lucky son of a...





Congrats. man. If you don't like it, let me know. I may be able to take it off you hands.

 

tom, i didnt say reliability, i say dependability as meaning... well.... able to get you through the everyday struggle.


ive had many MANUAL cars, I drive manual well, BUT... regardless of it all... i would kill myself if i had to drive a manual EVERYDAY again.



this wont be his toy. he wont be using it just to blast to and from the mountains now and then...

its a daily driver.



i also didnt say SMG offered greater control then a true manual... i simply said the lack of a clutch pedal has nothing to do with the ability to hold a gear through a corner as Shawn implied.



For me & most, SMG would be the way to go... you still get most of the fun of the manual... BUT you get all the joy of not having to deal with it when A) your in traffic B) your on the phone C) your masturbating in traffic D) you trying to drink your espresso E) your eatin some friiiiiiiied chicken F) your getting head in your M3

lol


I know the FEEL of a clutch pedal and having to work it makes YOU feel like your having more fun... and im sure I agree. But the reality is that technically... the difference in control... those margins are closing.

 

Looks like Tom and I are on the same page.
Soopa makes some good points too.

But it’s Ernie’s big (REALLY BIG) pile of CASH, so he gets to make the final decision.

Shawn S

 

Unreal.... that is soooo Hott!!

 

Shawn, i thought the same way you did.. till i drove an SMG m3. That shit is fucking amazing, even around turns you have full control of everything. It's amazing how fast it shifts.

 

Ernie, it's beautiful. The red screams give me a ticket pig! But other than that it does not have a "negative." Good Luck, and I can't wait to drive it.

 

I am going to be looking very closely into the engine issues, if I think for a moment that I am buying a car that will potentially have an issue I'm pulling my deposit and looking into something else because LORD KNOWS I will drive that car like it was meant to be.

 

well with that comment, you pretty much just bowed out of the competition ...



anyways -- don't blame your parents -- they were just trying to help ...

 

again.... you make no sense.


does anybody know what the fuck this fool is talking about????????

 

Awesome car, congrats! Now you have to go watch every other car board and get really hypersensitive if anyone says anything that's not 100% BMW praise

Don't forget to join the BMWCCA!

 

I don't think even HE knows what he's talking about himself......

You're right, his posts make NO sense at all.

 

Fotis,

You've been spending too much time around the battery room at the cell site. I think it's leaking vapors

 

That's the smartest thing you've said yet.

Definitely do some research and see if BMW has absolutely corrected the problem. You'll be beyond upset if your new M3 has to have a motor replaced.

And like I said before-- You owe it to yourself to at least learn to drive a manual trans BEFORE you buy the M3. At least so you can take a test-drive if they have one available.

Soopa-

I wasn't trying to say that the SMG will not hold a gear while cornering. Of course it will. Hell, the SS in your Acura will even allow that. What I was questioning was your statement that, "...SMG ownz the manual no matter what instance..."

I don't agree with that at all. I really like the SMG, but the manual trans is so much more satisfying to drive. I never did get used to NOT having a clutch pedal.

 

ouch baby, VERY ouch

 

i hope u can drive SMG better than u can stick, buddy

 

Button up, Button down even you can handle it!

 

Congrats Ernie! I was in PAA when you gave Pete a call


You are officially now a baller

 

well you just put yourself in the same hole as Tom2 ... ... next thing ya know, soopa's gonna be sporting a bmw ... 'course you'd be doing us all a favor if you left ... consider your taste in rims & body kits on bmw's is about as good as the taste ernie left in kermit's mouth before you guys broke up ...

apparently scooter figured it out ... which surprises the absolute FUCK out of me ...

ernie, :sqntfawk: that's your freebie for the year ... don't make me slap your fat ass, with my fat dick ...

 

As if a cop could catch him!!!


Congrats on the car!!!

 

Holy shit, the more this guy posts, the less anyone can figure out what the fuck he's trying to say......

The only thing I got outta this last post of his is that he's a BMW hater. Don't hate playa.......

 

No worries Fotis don't be hatin on my dime. My question is who unlocked the door on the diner and let you out long enough to have an opinion. :sqntfawk:

 

hmm ... obviously you are easily confused. if you actually owned an acura, then you'd be around here more often, to know WTF I'm talking about. that's okay, tuck your tail in, and run back to BMW forums ... the only reason Soopa can't figure it out is because I don't speak his skinny white boy wigger lingo, and the only reason ernie can't figure it out is because elena just got done giving him a dirty sanchez, and he can't see straight ... :wackit:

 

Oh, so sorry. I didn't realize that I had to own an Acura to be able to understand your psycho babble. Silly me.

So when did you become the forum asshole? I never handed you down my crown.

If you're really hard up, I'll lend you a few g's so you can buy a Bimmer too

 

Fotis,

Have you ever had a rusty trombone?

I'd bet you have

 

every once in a while, the asshole gets SHIT on ... and today is your lucky day.

not entirely positive that the lack of you owning an acura is the root cause of how lost you are ... it's more of the fact that YOU'RE NEVER FUCKING HERE.

a few g's ... like that's what kept me from getting a bmw ... and not the connotation that preceeds you around here ...