1996 BMW prices

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Courtesy of Car Magazine

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[AlexYannoulatos]

wow !!

 

[KingKeith]

Ahhh, the good ol days. I remember trying to convince my dad to buy a 323i

Interestingly enough, a 1996 F355 can easily fetch 1.5mil onwards

 

[Yuben]

Those prices were not cheap back then considering it was 22 years ago. Fairly relative to current costs and current earnings. Those that afforded those prices 22 years ago will similarly afford current prices today.

 

[tman]

Giving my age away a bit here, but when I was in primary school, my dad bought a E36 (318i) brand new for R103 000. (looking at these prices, it might have been in 1995 or 1994).

The reason I remember it, was because no one could fathom that you can spend more than a R100k on a car.

Something I do quite like about that pricelist is the simplicity. You walk into BMW, and you have 2 choices of a 7 series, done.

I swear these days you get more M4 configurations (M3/M4/Convertible/CS/competition pack/GTS etc etc) than that entire list.

 

[cOlDFuSiOn]

Interesting indeed. My friend's dad had the 740 in those days, interesting to see what it cost back then..

Things were simple.. You chose a Model, Motor size, a Color and some options.. Today... Yeah...

 

[kcmwinga]

Giving my age away a bit here, but when I was in primary school, my dad bought a E36 (318i) brand new for R103 000. (looking at these prices, it might have been in 1995 or 1994).

The reason I remember it, was because no one could fathom that you can spend more than a R100k on a car.

Something I do quite like about that pricelist is the simplicity. You walk into BMW, and you have 2 choices of a 7 series, done.

I swear these days you get more M4 configurations (M3/M4/Convertible/CS/competition pack/GTS etc etc) than that entire list.

I was going to make a similar comment with regards to the number of choices. Crazy how this has changed over time.

 

[444YYY]

Those prices were not cheap back then considering it was 22 years ago. Fairly relative to current costs and current earnings. Those that afforded those prices 22 years ago will similarly afford current prices today.

Good point!

 

[Donovan2412]

Interesting as car mag stated M3 prices were just R210 000 in early '94.

http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/c...loads/2012/07/28074805/BMW_M3_archived_01.jpg

 

[Dewald Basson]

My e36 was bought for about a 1/3 of it's original value, 10 years and 195xxxkm later. :smilebounce:

 

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Yes, I know it was before '96. Still relative..

 

[Preshen14]

Yes, I know it was before '96. Still relative..

I saw this picture somewhere. This amounts to R180k if taken for 60 months and was probably around R120k cash. At that time most average people opted for Fords...

EDIT : From BMW's I still feel the CSL came in at a banging price when looking at the production year... And rightfully so.

 

[individj]

Ahhh, the good ol days. I remember trying to convince my dad to buy a 323i

Interestingly enough, a 1996 F355 can easily fetch 1.5mil onwards

thats only in SA..because we get screwed with car prices

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the car was then paid off though..no balloon payments

 

[Dragonman]

Ahhh, the good ol days. I remember trying to convince my dad to buy a 323i

Interestingly enough, a 1996 F355 can easily fetch 1.5mil onwards

thats only in SA..because we get screwed with car prices

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the car was then paid off though..no balloon payments

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Amazingly the Uno still sells for the same value :dunnoanymore:

 

[Karthik]

Recall my dad bought his first BMW, a 316i for R80k brand new in October 1992. Still love that car cause it drove my passion.

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[MR_Y]

Yes, I know it was before '96. Still relative..

I saw this picture somewhere. This amounts to R180k if taken for 60 months and was probably around R120k cash. At that time most average people opted for Fords...

Important to note that Prime back in the 80s was around 20%-25% (ignoring a brief dip below 20%).
Also, the maximum allowed maturity of finance deal (open to correction) was 48 months and I think that 10% deposit was mandatory. No balloon/residual nonsense for private buyers back then

So, if we assume approx. 20% prime, 10% deposit and 48 months (no balloon), then the sticker price would have been R100-110k.

 

[Nick]

Was a good year to buy a Daewoo.

 

[SubLoaded]

Was a good year to buy a Daewoo.

Didn't realize that this post was about TVs

 

[kilotango]

Yes, I know it was before '96. Still relative..

sigh...i almost shed a tear when i saw that pic. my uncle had a brand new 325i like that when i was a kid...its the reason i own a beemer now. i can still remember the noise that car made after all these years :chef:

 

[Ralf*]

I bought my first BMW in 1995 (I was 31 years then) , it was a 2 year old (1993) E36 325 i with 30xxx on the clock for R125K