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2013 MINI Cooper spied undergoing winter testing It looks like it has a suicide door on the driver's side, like the current Clubman has

BMW (SA) M3 Convertible: price, dates That is the real measure fusion01 - the earning and purchasing power - I could agree with you more

BMW (SA) M3 Convertible: price, dates I agree with you wisp - it is ridiculous that Motorplans haven 't hit here yet. Given the high cost of servicing, something tells me that they're not going to change anytime soon.

BMW (SA) M3 Convertible: price, dates hi James, I looked up the price and options list on bmw.co.za and it tells me that these are all optional. If I'm wrong I apologise. I'm just going off what BMW is publishing on their site. I'm glad things have changed with regards the number of company cars. Much seems to have changed in the 3 years since I left Standard Bank where I was head of Automotive Finance. Although I'm still with the bank in another capacity over here. Again, apologies if I got something wrong.

BMW (SA) M3 Convertible: price, dates You are right with regards to Americans paying absolute peanuts for cars. But I do disagree completely with your analogy that Australia gets lower spec cars than South Africa does. I used to live in South Africa and now I live in Australia. Sure the cars are quite a bit more expensive on face value, (but on real earnings they're much cheaper in Australia), especially BMW's, but I'd check the spec lists - a 335i in Aus only has 8-10 options that can be add and comes standard with items like sat nav (A R19,900 option in South Africa), TV (A R6,500 option in SA), Bi-Xenon headlamps (A R7,200 option in SA) and the list goes on. The one thing that South Africa does do correctly is that all new cars come with a 'Motorplan' which includes 'x' amount of services that are built into the car's price. This is where BMW Australia can learn a thing or teo, but when they command such astronomical servicing fess they won't. I've only got 13 months to wait for my 4.8i X5, as the waiting lists are SO long and BMW Australia is delievering atleast 800 of them a month. SO there are quite a few of them around. And I agree who the hell would by a 116i? If only Australia had a company car culture like South Africa (83% of all new cars sales are attricubuted to company cars by the way)