My first BMW - What's yours?

[Beemerke]

The first BMW I had, although it was a company car.
It's the one on the right ;-)

BMW 116d efficient dynamics in mineral grey including comfort pack + Xenon headlights.
I had such pleasure driving this car!! Now, ~10 years later, I'll have my own brand new 3-series (G21) in the same color! Can't wait!

Before anyone would mention something about the license plates.
At the time of the picture, I still lived in Belgium hence the Belgian license plate. Now I live in Poland.

[Leahluvofficial]

Originally Posted by techietaichi

People in general or at least "go getters", competitive types, and "Alphas", prefer to be first. Hey, we just like winning! Aside from that though, we as humans also fondly or not remember our "first time" or "first one's" as later on in life those things take us back in time and I don't know about you, but things like that always manage to put a smile on my face. I know you've heard it before from somebody, anybody, "I remember the first time when....". Well, as BMW enthusiasts I know everyone remembers the first "Beemer" or Bimmer" they had and unless you lived where everyone but God had one, just having a BMW, beat up or not, indelibly made you "The Man" amongst your crowd.

Well, that being said, I'll start this thread with the first Beemer I ever owned and invite all of you to share your fond memories and/or stories of the car that set your BMW infatuation into motion!

In '96 after 3 tours in the Army(9 yrs), I decided that it was time for me to head back to the civilian world. Uncle Sam at the time decided that "downsizing" was necessary and to coerce some people out, was offering severance pay and a few years more of additional benefits to say, "Adios!". Well, I took that offer. They handed me 20G's and I bought this '82 320i for 4K. A buddy of mine who'd come from Germany brought this car back with him and like us was an enthusiast and what do most enthusiast do to their cars? Mod it! For the time, this baby was tuned and in the first week that I had it damn near got thrown in the can for wreckless driving, but managed to get just a speeding ticket for being a veteran. I was just coming down from around 120 on I70 just north of Manhattan, KS, give or take a few mph when that Kansas trooper busted my ass. Damn I miss this car. Good times!

The BMW I own right now is my first BMW, and it is a 2016 BMW X1 (f48) xdrive28i and I absolutely love it. But I’m having some issues with the monitor right now

[Leahluvofficial]

I’ve done some custom wrap on my driver and passenger door by myself to make it even cooler and I’ve done some custom modifications other than that including all of the chrome paneling I’ve blacked out with either gloss or matte black or carbon fiber and I keep finding new things to do with it

[M8 obsessed]

First BMW was a 2020 barcelona blue metallic M850i coupe, 2.5 months later I traded it in for a 2021 sapphire black metallic M8 coupe. Love it so far

[TheAss3t]

2002 530i.

[Artko80]

F30 320i

[Rivanov]

F40 118i High Executive M-Sport

[Rono63]

A F32 was my first now have a G82.
I miss the silver wheels.

[Bruse Wayne]

The “clown shoe”

Ended up selling to my best friend because I barely fit in it [ e46 M3 replaced it ] so here we are 20yrs later and I still visit.

[sb_12345]

e46 320d 2004 was my first BMW, drive it to this day 467000km on the ODO and still going strong!

[Westside Guy]

This was my first BMW, a 1991 E30. I took it for a test drive and told the salesman that it was sold!

[IcewaterPete]

Originally Posted by Westside Guy

This was my first BMW, a 1991 E30. I took it for a test drive and told the salesman that it was sold!

It looks like an E36. Very sharp!

[G30M]

first pre LCI 340i Touring g21 - demo
last LCI 550i sedan - demo

pie in the sky dreamer wish - 50e X5 phev

[warsaw04]

2004 E46 330ci. I’ve been hooked since.

[ntx150]

Got my first BMW at 23 back in 2017, E90 318d Sport Plus (LCI 2011), loved it so much.

Had the factory LED headlights, the previous owner fitted it with the 19 inch 313 alloys which gave the car so much presence on the road.

[Nickynines]

off the rip, 2000 m5 imola red. bought in 7 years old, still have it

[Duhl82@proton.me]

Mine was an e91

[hihowareyougood]

N55 F87. It was a COVID purchase early last year, and the greatest decision I've made in a long time!

[jefe2000]

Like in the previous post, my first BMW is the one I purchased in early 2022: a new-to-me 2018 F87 M2 LCI.

I don't consider myself a BMW guy. I'm a small-sports-car with shift-em-yourself gears kinda guy. I came from a 2010 5MT WRX hatchback.

Round about when I hit 10 years of ownership of the WRX, I started looking for my next small hatchback or coupé, AWD/RWD, manual transmission car. I was looking at cars like the Golf R, Veloster N, Mini Cooper S/JCW, and similar. That's when I happened upon the Throttle House review of the M240i. Since I'm not a BMW guy, I hadn't really heard of the car. I fell in love instantly.

As I learned more about the M240i, I discovered the M2. I'd found my true love. So I spent the next two years watching the the used market for my perfect spec to pop up: LCI (non-comp), LBB, moonroof, 6MT, one-owner, CA-owned, exec package, under 30K miles, $55K or less.

In December '21 the exact spec I was looking for popped up at a CarMax in SoCal. I jumped on it, had it transferred to my local CarMax the day after it appeared online, spent 24 hours with it during CarMax's 24-hour test drive, and purchased it the next day. That was just over a year ago.

A year later, my love affair with M2 hasn't ceased. I think I'll get at least a decade out of this car. And, with how the car market is rapidly shifting under us, who knows: maybe I'll go 15 years in this one. It's the last of the good ones, I think.

[snareman]

2007 335.

[GTS Daddy]

Custom build 2007, E92 335 back in early 2007. What, a, car!

Then BMW bought it back for faulty waste gates.

[oneofew]

Although these pics were taken sometime in the nineties , here is my first BMW , 89 325IS, purchased at Crevier BMW.