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Sam Stromberg

Car enthusiast and BMW M4 owner who appeared as a guest on the Cold Start automotive podcast, discussing shipping his M4 overseas for a European driving trip through the Nürburgring.

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Oct 6, 2026

Idling with International Car Enthusiast, Sam Stromberg

Oct 6 · 1h 25m

SilasHOST

7:50

Yeah.

Sam StrombergGUEST

7:51

With zero options except for comp and individual Imola red paint, which at the time was, uh, an actual individual option.

Sam StrombergGUEST

8:02

The last few years, like a 2020 M4 or a 2018 M3, you could get those paints for discounted.

Sam StrombergGUEST

8:08

This particular example, the original owner paid full, full pop.

Sam StrombergGUEST

8:13

And then there's no other options on the build sheet, so it was a manual, cloth interior, and then at the very bottom was a bunch of port-installed carbon.

Sam StrombergGUEST

8:22

So it came with an, a factory wing, a factory splitter, mirror caps.

Sam StrombergGUEST

8:27

So it's just this bizarre spec of no options, but it was expensive enough because of all these, like, esoteric, you know, paint choice and factory carbon, et cetera.

ToddHOST

9:36

This car needs to go back to its homeland, back on a boat, and ship it to Europe."