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well in SoCal, especially south orange county, they are every 3rd - 5th car you see, they are really popular here, and we have hte largest BMW center in the country, i think! they just finished an expansion so they ahve like 80-100 bays, 400 3 Series on the lot...and they are blowing up the service zone to enlarge it and make a covered area for turning in your car that will be able to fit like 100 cars! another example, yesterday i took my car for service and was talkign to my service guy who said "today we had 133 cars turned in for repairs......thats a usual amount, but thats why we expanded the (place where we fix cars, my brain is dead right now)"...supposedely they can now do about 200 cars a day
Yeah, lots of E30's and E34's and E36's. Not too many new ones - the new luxury cars are all mercedes, Jags, Porsches, the odd bentley etc. One of the locals owns and old 1920's Rolls Royce. Rolls ofered him 5 million NZ for it to put in their museum - he turned it down.
In Auckland (NZ's biggest City Pop. 1 million, and only city by world standards, Previous home of the Americas Cup, and about 3 or so hours drive from the Bay of Islands) it seems as if every second car is a bimmer - m3 CSL's, e30's galore from stock 318's right up to re-engined and turboed m325i's, even seen one with a 12a rotary - these cars are really popular in the boy racer scene, and also plenty of huge 7-series uber-saloons etc, but then Auckland has a love-affair with the car - porsches, ferraris, astons, maserati's, lambos can be seen on a daily basis in the right suburbs (although not the majority of cars by any stretch of the imagination).
As it is the holiday season, I have seen an influx of nice bimmers up here lately driven by tourists, I saw a B10 Alpina, and a S14 Schnitzer in one 5 minute block.
In Auckland (NZ's biggest City Pop. 1 million, and only city by world standards, Previous home of the Americas Cup, and about 3 or so hours drive from the Bay of Islands) it seems as if every second car is a bimmer - m3 CSL's, e30's galore from stock 318's right up to re-engined and turboed m325i's, even seen one with a 12a rotary - these cars are really popular in the boy racer scene, and also plenty of huge 7-series uber-saloons etc, but then Auckland has a love-affair with the car - porsches, ferraris, astons, maserati's, lambos can be seen on a daily basis in the right suburbs (although not the majority of cars by any stretch of the imagination).
As it is the holiday season, I have seen an influx of nice bimmers up here lately driven by tourists, I saw a B10 Alpina, and a S14 Schnitzer in one 5 minute block.
The only way to import as far as I know is to import in parts and buy a wreck that has been registered before, and do some dodgy welding of VIN plates etc. I'll do some research now you've got me thinking.
Not a prob for '80s bimmers as they are growing on trees over here - part of the reason why I would like to get a couple of them and keep them in mint condition so when all the others start to rust away, I have a rare car.
Not a prob for '80s bimmers as they are growing on trees over here - part of the reason why I would like to get a couple of them and keep them in mint condition so when all the others start to rust away, I have a rare car.
You'll both love it - just come in january (like now) as it is the best month for weather. december is often fickle, and end of Feb, March we get the odd cyclone (love sub-tropical climates!) and obvioulsy your summer is our winter, so avoid it then.
If looking, place names in the bay are: Russell, Paihia, Kerikeri, Waitangi, Haruru Falls. Any questions on where to stay, what to do, and how much to pay feel free to ask.
If looking, place names in the bay are: Russell, Paihia, Kerikeri, Waitangi, Haruru Falls. Any questions on where to stay, what to do, and how much to pay feel free to ask.
