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Jul 20^th, 2007 at 9:13am

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Hi all,

I usually do not post any pictures here, but I have just recently noticed the car of TSC., and he asked for some pictures of mine, so here we go:

It's a BMW 740 with a 245 hp Diesel engine, V8 bi-turbo with auto-sequential gearbox. A great pleasure to drive between France and Germany, through the higways of Italy and Switzerland (for business travels, in fact) Cheesy

Here are two pictures showing the inside of the car, with beige and black board, and beige everything-else

The car is "individual" series, that is full options + some individual options if I understood right, however I could not name them for sure Tongue

This is full of more-or-less usefull electronic stuff, some I like, some I don't, but I surely love my car Kiss

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Reply #1 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 9:18am

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Nice car mate.

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Reply #2 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 10:56am

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Whoa! Nicely preserved! This must be one of the latest models of that version...

Omag... feeling very poor all of the sudden... Grin

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Reply #3 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 11:17am

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Y'know what Daube - I really like the colour!

That is a stunning example you've got there mate, that interior looks absolutley mint. Shocked

Looks like a fully loaded beauty aswell, lots of things I haven't got like the sunblinds in the doors & you appear to have some tables in the back of the front seats?? Anychance of seeing what they are? The leather looks really well cared for aswell.

The other main difference is that you've got a (newer Cry

) 740D & mine is the 730i - I do feel that these models look much better with larger wheels & low profile tyres though - I'm always thinking of changing mine Undecided

Great car Daube, thanks for posting the pictures, it's much appreciated. Smiley

Cheers,

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Reply #4 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 11:49am

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Omag, a nicely preserved 740i would cost something around 10 or 12.000 euros nowadays, even less, for a very reliable V8 benzine engine. I've even seen one for sale for 10.000 euros, with only 97.000 kms !.. Ok it had very few options, and a green interior (that looked terrible Tongue

) but however, you don't need to be rich to buy one of those cars.

TSC, I strongly agree with you, low profile wheels (with, like, 19 or 20 inches rims) look muuuuuuuuch better on that car... but man, those wheels cost alsmost as much as the car itself Tongue

Here are the picture of the mini-tables

Additionnaly, I don't have a picture of them but there are mirrors with lights in the head support part of the front seat, so that the back passengers can makeup Tongue

And as a bonus, a picture of the engine:

As for the options in this cars:
- Electric front seats with memory for driver
- massage front seats
- heating front seats
- electrochromatic central mirror
- fully electric and electrochromatic outside mirrors (that IS cool !! )
- front and backward parking radars
- cruise control
- and old GPS which displays either only a fix map with my position, either arrows for indicating the direction to choose
- TV (reception is really bad, though)
- 6 CD charger
- Aux-IN jack (cool for the MP3 player

)
- mini-table and mirrors with light for the back passengers
- automatic wipers
- electric trunk door
- Xenon front lights with automatic levelling
- M-style steering wheel
- electric sunblind for the back window (those on the back doors windows are manual of course)
- electric opening roof
- and some other stuff I have forgotten Tongue

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Reply #5 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 12:01pm

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But why do you use a "Ausfuhrkennzeichen" (export-license-plate?) on your priv. car??? Huh

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Reply #6 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 12:03pm

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Because I did those pictures shortly after buying the car, in end of March this year.
I bought it in Germany while I was on a business trip, then I drove it back to France with those plates. They were valid (with included insurance) only for 15 days, the time required for me to obtain some new permanent plates in France.

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Reply #7 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 12:13pm

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Thanks for the extra pictures Daube, those tables are a nice touch. One thing I have noticed on my car is that the rear armrest will comforatbly fit two bottles of vino. Grin

I've also bunged a small fridge in the boot.

& one of the enginey bit that goes brum:

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Reply #8 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 12:43pm

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Nooooooo, not another BMW owner Shocked

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Reply #9 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 3:27pm

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I'd put a pic of my recently hand cleaned by me engine bay. But its dark, plus it looks kind of crappy in comparison. Grin

I'm strongly considering an M3 engine though, a car breakers I use every now and again has one thats apparently in very good condition..

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Reply #10 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 3:28pm

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Daube wrote on Jul 20^th, 2007 at 11:49am:

Omag, a nicely preserved 740i would cost something around 10 or 12.000 euros nowadays, even less, for a very reliable V8 benzine engine. I've even seen one for sale for 10.000 euros, with only 97.000 kms !.. Ok it had very few options, and a green interior (that looked terrible Tongue

) but however, you don't need to be rich to buy one of those cars.

OK, I agree, but once you bought the car, here in Belgium, you'll go bankrupt paying for gas, inssurance, taxes and maintenance! Wink

Omag... driving that "disirable" type of German car... Opel Wink

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Reply #11 - Jul 20^th, 2007 at 5:53pm

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Omag 2.0 wrote on Jul 20^th, 2007 at 3:28pm:

Daube wrote on Jul 20^th, 2007 at 11:49am:

Omag, a nicely preserved 740i would cost something around 10 or 12.000 euros nowadays, even less, for a very reliable V8 benzine engine. I've even seen one for sale for 10.000 euros, with only 97.000 kms !.. Ok it had very few options, and a green interior (that looked terrible Tongue

) but however, you don't need to be rich to buy one of those cars.

OK, I agree, but once you bought the car, here in Belgium, you'll go bankrupt paying for gas, inssurance, taxes and maintenance! Wink

Omag... driving that "disirable" type of German car... Opel Wink

Otherwise known (here anyway) as 'Vauxhall'

I'm embarrassed to say at the moment the family cars are;
Vauxhall Astra (not the new one either)
Vauxhall Vectra diesel (simply aaaargh)

Oh, the shame...

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