540/740? Which to buy?

Were there less 540s than 535s produced? There seems to be loads of 535s for the right money around and next to no 540s for some reason, only about 8 in the counry in my price range. Or do people just not want to part with em?

Smigga

smigga wrote: Were there less 540s than 535s produced?

I reckon probably less 540s than 535. 

I get excited if I see either as they are rare.  I saw a 540 Sport in the west end of Glasgow a couple of weeks ago and it was a fine looking beast.  On a Y plate so getting old but it looked the mutts nutts!

The 540 would have cost more new so logic would dictate that more slightly cheaper cars i.e. the 535 would have been made?

Look at it today with E60s, how many 520ds do you see compared to 540s and 550s?  I've seen two 550s and not a single 540.  Every other E60 is a 520d.

However if do search deep, long, hard and are prepared to travel you will find the right car in the right price range.  It's just a waiting game....

I check ebay, autotrader and pistonheads everyday, seen a crackin 535sport last night in Yorkshire but I know if I go to see it Ill end up getting it and then see a 540s a few weeks down the line and regret not waiting!

UweM3 the car looks smart enough but not really what Im after.

Smigga

Stone-IslandV8 wrote: Why not forget the 540 standard or sports and get an alpina B10 4.6L v8?

Now you're talking or how about the LSV converted 540i? LSV bolt on a supercharger to the standard 4.4 V8.

Just checking if my signature now works?

Smigga

Peter Fenwick wrote: Stone-IslandV8 wrote: Why not forget the 540 standard or sports and get an alpina B10 4.6L v8? And how expensive are decent B10s...   A different league to the 540 in many areas including price.

Isn't that what Crombers has?

He hasn't been on here for a while.  He did have bother with cylinder head gaskets just after he bought it IIRC.

Well its decided, 540 sport it has to be, sadly (or not) I know of everyone thats for sale in the uk and nothing local, if my wife ever has this baby I met get chance to go and get one. My original budget of £3.5k was very wishfull thinking, only a small turkey for us this Christmas!

Smigga 

Cheers Andrew, yes Im after a 51 plate facelift version below the tax price jump as I run a van and wifey car as well so I have to be a bit practical in my old age.

I drove a dark met blue 535is 2 weeks ago and it was stunning after 5 years without a decent car! If it had been a 540 the deal would be done, but I hunt daily for a 540is and the good ones are all over 100 miles away and a bit more money than I thought I would spend (as is always the case when you start looking).

Anyway my 2nd child is due any day so I cant go far, and my business is due a few paydays over the next month or so, so Im hopein the right 1 will appear when my circumstances are suited to getting the best available rather than the cheapest and most local.

Smigga

Stone-IslandV8 wrote: http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1308364.htm

Right car, very, very, very wrong colour though!

Isn't that an illegally spaced number plate he has on it?  A colleague of my wife got a £60 fine for having her number plate illeagally spaced.  Last thing you would want to do is attract more plod attention in a car like that.

Still going for big money which is bad for you but good for us with big engined machines.