FS: 2011 BMW 1M AW - Canada

[touringteg]

BIMMERPOST / Classifieds

Asking Price:

USD 99,999.00

Item Interest

No longer for sale. Keeping this beauty!

[markslc1]

Nice car. If it were VO I’d be calling you.

[touringteg]

Thanks! Good luck with the VO search

[..Rush..]

Wow, that is an absolutely gorgeous car.
Good luck with your sale!

[touringteg]

Thank you Rush1. I love the car and will miss it!

[..Rush..]

What sports car are you buying?

Originally Posted by touringteg

Thank you Rush1. I love the car and will miss it!

[touringteg]

I am getting my 2nd Integra Type R. They are fun to drive, simple to work on and have low operating cost. I wish I could have both.

[touringteg]

Lowered to a more reasonable price. Got to like the current exchange rate for USA buyers!

[..Rush..]

Don't sell it brother.
That's a living classic.

[touringteg]

Originally Posted by Rush1

Don't sell it brother.
That's a living classic.

I will likely end up keeping it and continuing to enjoy it. I will leave this up until Sunday April 19th.

[frenzy757]

For that money, I think you should just keep it and just drive it like hell!

[a4nut]

what happened to the awesome write up from the member who imported one to California? flights are $100 from ATL, and I may get divorced for doing so, but I'm considering flying and driving it back....

[touringteg]

Originally Posted by a4nut

what happened to the awesome write up from the member who imported one to California? flights are $100 from ATL, and I may get divorced for doing so, but I'm considering flying and driving it back....

That awesome write up is here. Nachob could write a solid how to guide for US buyers!

https://www.1addicts.com/forums/show....php?t=1434248

If I keep enjoying it though Covid that would be just fine with me.

[nachob]

Originally Posted by a4nut

what happened to the awesome write up from the member who imported one to California? flights are $100 from ATL, and I may get divorced for doing so, but I'm considering flying and driving it back....

Between my first 1M that I picked up in Germany on E.D. and the Canadian one, I found a blue alcantara manual ZHP in Rhode Island. It was the most insane trip ever, I could write a movie about it. I finally made it back to San Diego and the story is now legend in our family. So when I found the Canadian 1M in Ontario, I agonized about telling my wife... I kept planning how to say it and finally she was in a really good mood and I said, hey honey look at this beautiful 1M! She looked at it and said, yes beautiful. Then she looked at me and slowly said "where is it.....Ontario like east of Los Angeles? No Ontario like east coast, Canada. She busted laughing so hard and for so long that she grabbed her side in pain. Between laughing in pain I felt my mojo leave me and dejected I just said, "never mind..." Then she no no sweetie, it's fine....I just keep thinking...what Rhode Island wasn't far enough?

Then she composed herself and said OK, let's go get it.

I have spoken with several people now that have done it and besides getting an amazing car, the best part of this is really driving a 1M cross country. These cars end up in garages and little Sunday jaunts, but everyone should at one point in their lives do a cross country trip in the 1M. Don't ship it, there are some beautiful roads along the way, beautiful scenery and great open road. So someone should do it!

[kaiv]

Originally Posted by a4nut

(...)flights are $100 from ATL, and I may get divorced for doing so, but I'm considering flying and driving it back....

Originally Posted by nachob

(...) Don't ship it, there are some beautiful roads along the way, beautiful scenery and great open road. So someone should do it!

Guys, the borders are closed for tourism right now. Pretty sure you can't just fly and drive.

[NorthernDancer]

Well I'm from Ontario [Canada] and here's my story. Presently the US$ is very strong compared to our C$. Hence so many people buying our cars. Back 10 years ago, the 2 dollars were just about equal and Canadians were buying in USA primarily for better selection and better prices. I've imported BMWs from Richmond Va, Hartford CT, Pittsburg PA and Brunswick GA.

One spring day in 2009 my wife came home and announced she had test driven a 09 135 and loved it so much, she though we could buy it. Well I'm a retired military living on a small pension and could never afford $53K. Besides the car was automatic and I didn't want twin turbos. I was getting enough speeding tickets with a single turbo Audi. Wife hounded me for well over a year about that car.

Late one night in 2011 on cars.com, I see a 128 in the Sedona red she liked with manual trans and sport pkg in Brunswick GA and they're asking only $21,500. Private sale. Bought it-great people to work with. Sent me all the documentation I asked for, essentially maintenance records.

I flew down to Jacksonville FL and the couple both took a day off work and picked me up at the airport (it's 1 hour away). The purchase went perfect.

I left Brunswick about 4pm that same day for the 1250 mile drive back. I soon noticed 2 things "wrong" with the car. First a noise inside the car (turned out to be a pen rolling around in the center console), and I couldn't get the radio to work. There was a blank on the radio screen (you all can figure out this one). The whole drive was supremely enjoyable and something I'll remember well for the rest of my life. Thank you USA.

[touringteg]

I love these stories! The adventure / journey is half the fun and will bring you so many memories.

I am not sure if you can fly into Vancouver BC or not. I think the car would have to be shipped over to Washington State to the city of your choice and fly and drive from there. Blaine WA has storage facilities. TFX is still cross border shipping cars.

[nachob]

Originally Posted by touringteg

No longer for sale. Keeping this beauty!
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Good for you! I sold my first 1M in 2013 and I regretted it. I spent 2 years looking for another No Nav one and ended up going to another country and the other side of the continent and paid more than my new one. More importantly 1Ms in Canada are becoming an endangered species as they migrate south permanently. As a Canadian car enthusiast you can now find some of the few remaining ones and try to mate them in order to bring them back from the brink of disappearing from the Northern range of North America. I know it's a burden because unlike here where they can mate year round up there there they hibernate for the winter. So best of luck!

[Rekraps]

How many miles are on the car?