BMW Z3

The state of the enthusiast manual car market, if it's not a $20,000 to $100,000 911, it's a bloodbath.

Everyone is scouring for the same manual E36, E46, E30, the Z3M sold.

I don't know what it's sold for.

250,000 mile, Estoril blue, Z3M.

With a hard top.

With

Which one? Which one, Ryan? There are a lot of cars.

We've got the Z3.

We've got the 70 series you drive in the back.

For me, the ultimate James Bond movie car is the Vanish, a.k.a. V12 Vanquish in Die Another Day.

All right, so...

Runner up is a 98 Z3M.

Yeah.

S4 all blue.

I don't really care for any of these cars if I'm being super honest.

The Z3 is what it is.

I'm not a fan of them, but they got a little following.

I mean, I'd probably just go with Ferrari.

Yeah, we went and bought one to sell on the site because, again, I think that's a great car.

I had a Z3M in the day, but the Z4M's a hell of a lot of cars for sub-20 grand.

And I also think modern cars are quite dull.

I mean, I drive a Mark VII Golf R because it hasn't got ADAP, it hasn't got lane assist, and it's just perfect.

It's a Z4M coupe.

Now, if you think that the Z3 coupe That's done fantastically well.

I think that boat has sailed, but I don't think this one has.

It's got a 3.2-litre engine, straight six.

Cars, absolutely this has happened to me several times in the last 20 years where I dragged my feet on something and they got popular again.

It's probably happening to me right now with Z3M.

[laughs]

Like as we speak.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm probably getting priced out of...

Again, kind of it's not that I'm saying that the Z3M isn't gonna be worth or, or even that Nick is saying that the, a 997S isn't worth the extra 20.

It's not worth it to him.

And I was so in the world.

Like I was in the world in the office with my designer bag, with my BMW Z3 convertible.

And all of it, when I was playing that character, all of that defined me.

And I was chasing all of this worldly success.

Again, I was kind of like, well, where's the gap? What do you mean it's been totaled already? I had a lot of this throughout the Brosnan run where they teased like a car and I was like, oh, I cannot wait to see this car scene.

And we had like the BMW Z3 in GoldenEye and the Z8 in The World Is Not Enough.

We had the BMW chase in Tomorrow Never Dies, which I really love.

And then Die Another Day, I was like, whoa, this is the Aston Martin's back.