Used Car of the Day: 2007 BMW M6
Today we bring you a 2007 BMW M6.
The pickings are a bit slim today, so I snagged this sleek-looking coupe that apparently has some issues, including transmission troubles. It also appears to have some modifications. The listing is a bit hard to read and translate from Bimmer-ese to English but it appears that some of the maintenance work has been done and the transmission was addressed but perhaps still needs work.
It also appears that the headline sags.
This car is based in North Dakota and the mileage appears to be around 132,000. It has some carbon-fiber bits and the windows look tinted in the image. Our seller is asking $8,000.
Click here to see it.
[Image: Seller]
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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The listing appears to have been taken down since Tim posted the link to it. Here are the extended cliff notes on the car's history:
-It was modded.
- Previous owner went full broke from getting most of the 100k-mile overhaul done.
- Current owner continued the good fight but is demoralized by more wear and failure regardless. The car has an SMG (yuck!) that made an unsettling noise, then threw error codes pointing to the pump. So the car is a liability to drive at best, a lawn ornament at worse.
- The seller is mechanically adept and thinks they can replace it, but isn't keen to, and has their eye on something newer and less problematic (X5 M).
- Personal opinion: this generation of 6 series hasn't aged well.
Hard pass for me.
"Our seller is asking $8,000."
Wow, kinda reasonable but still a tad too high given risk.
Btw for some reason the Z4 "M" is 11,750 with those miles, my brain initially crashed trying to reconcile below wholesale and upon reboot realized I wasn't looking at "M6"
I wouldn't take it for free; you could spend as much in the first year's repairs.
The visual effect of black paint and black wheels and minimal brightwork is very visually distinctive; I wonder why more people haven't thought of it.