Hi all first post on here, bought my first fast(ish) Ford earlier this month, a molten orange fez ST-3 as i needed a daily driver for work and shorter journeys and wanted to stop using the M3 for trips when the oil doesn't warm up.

The abarth belongs to the er'indoors and the Clubman is my old girls car, i know it's an acquired taste but she is in her 60's and it's a genuine JCW with 231 bhp, pops and bangs for fun in sport mode really good fun to drive, it is more fun to drive than the M3 sometimes!

Really impressed with the fiesta though, i think i will get the quaife diff fitted in the near future, and looking into the best remap, any suggestions?

P.S. Ignore state on house, haven't long moved in and having major work done in the summer, including a big garage built on the side of and into the existing one

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Looks a nice motor .

 

Nice fleet of cars. Are you enjoying the M3? I have had BMWs for 20myrs on an off but not jelled with the last two, not saying they were not good, just not as good as my others.

 

I've most likely drove your Clubman, The handbrakes on them are pretty shit. Such a godawful design. When the F54 first come out, The handbrake switch was the first thing I noticed and hated. They are that crap i've parked a couple up and the cars have rolled into other car or rolled away from where I parked it, to find it metres away 10 minutes later.

I agree with the pops and bangs, great fun. I do find they sound different to the F56. Also when driving behind them, you'll notice the offside tailpipe butterfly valve thing open and close.

I've drove lots of M3,4,5 & 6 the competition pack upgrade is very nice bit of kit. lots of carbon fibre everywhere.

 

Nice collection of cars there. Don't think I've ever seen an M3 in that colour before.

 

Individual paint. Quite a few of the higher spec BMWs come with 'one off paint colours'.

I've seen quite a few matt black, purple, Orange, metallic baby blue, green, grey primer looking colours.

 

work in the factory do you? so far the handbrake has been fine, worst handbrake i've ever had the misfortune to be stuck with was the one on my e46 m3. even after replacing everything from the shoes/springs/adjuster wheel/actuator to discs, it eventually became 'ok' but not great.

i bought the m3 about 2 months before the comp pack was announced, but the spec on mine is pretty much exactly what i wanted, most comp packs i see around are pov spec (comparatively)

and yes it's an individual colour called signal green, same green porsche have had for years. the colours aren't one offs though, just rare, theres a few other signal greens about but not many, chris harris had one for a while.

 

No I work as part of the Oxford handover centre, Its on site, but quite a distance from the factory. We do vehicle dispatch of Minis, Inbound of BMW cars for private sale and leasehold(workers cars). I'd be the last person as part of the 'Company' to drive the car before a transport company takes it away.

The green colour is the most common of the individual colours we have in.

As for the Mini, When did she take delivery of the car? If you give me the last 7 digits of the Chassis number(2C*****) I should be able to find out its build date for you. If I drove the car, and on what day and time.(pm me rather than putting details on here)