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6/29/2025, 1:41:53 AM
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If you think about buying one of these S85 cars and in the same thought even slightly think about the words "value" or "cost" you are in for a serious rude awakening. These cars will not appreciate, especially the ones you're probably looking at based off what you said. Anything that is not a 6 speed manual is a true deathtrap if money is of any concern to you. The only versions of these that will ever in a million billion years appreciate in value are either 1 owner cars, below 50k miles, 6 speed manual, individual color.
They will not appreciate, they will not "hold value" and even if they do, I'm not kidding even relatively basic 2-3 year worth of maintenance CAN and WILL total out the car value wise. Something serious breaks and you have to pay for it besides normal maintenance cost? You are looking at potentially tens of thousands of dollars. The fact you said;
>but I will rely on a local BMW indy to do any heavy work.
tells me that you are not prepared to own one of these. You just aren't. If you are OKAY with spending tens of thousands of dollars over the years of ownership, great. I can tell you are not one of those guys.
Awesome cars, fantastic actually. But they are unironically a legitimate moneypit. If you have money to burn and really really want one, fantastic. I promise you that if you own one of these for a year or two you will literally never ever ever be positive in value, this is a money pit through and through. This is coming from someone who dies on the hill of "N54 is reliable", btw.
If you buy a S85 car for $10k, expect to pay $10k-$20k in work for the first two years. If you buy one for $20k, expect $5k-$10k in costs in the same time frame, etc, etc.
>but I am worried about long term value retention.
Yeah you should be, because there is LITERALLY NONE. YOU WILL LOSE MONEY. THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHERE YOU WILL "HOLD VALUE" OR NOT BE AT A NET NEGATIVE WITH THESE CARS, AT ALL.
If you think about buying one of these S85 cars and in the same thought even slightly think about the words "value" or "cost" you are in for a serious rude awakening. These cars will not appreciate, especially the ones you're probably looking at based off what you said. Anything that is not a 6 speed manual is a true deathtrap if money is of any concern to you. The only versions of these that will ever in a million billion years appreciate in value are either 1 owner cars, below 50k miles, 6 speed manual, individual color.
They will not appreciate, they will not "hold value" and even if they do, I'm not kidding even relatively basic 2-3 year worth of maintenance CAN and WILL total out the car value wise. Something serious breaks and you have to pay for it besides normal maintenance cost? You are looking at potentially tens of thousands of dollars. The fact you said;
>but I will rely on a local BMW indy to do any heavy work.
tells me that you are not prepared to own one of these. You just aren't. If you are OKAY with spending tens of thousands of dollars over the years of ownership, great. I can tell you are not one of those guys.
Awesome cars, fantastic actually. But they are unironically a legitimate moneypit. If you have money to burn and really really want one, fantastic. I promise you that if you own one of these for a year or two you will literally never ever ever be positive in value, this is a money pit through and through. This is coming from someone who dies on the hill of "N54 is reliable", btw.
If you buy a S85 car for $10k, expect to pay $10k-$20k in work for the first two years. If you buy one for $20k, expect $5k-$10k in costs in the same time frame, etc, etc.
>but I am worried about long term value retention.
Yeah you should be, because there is LITERALLY NONE. YOU WILL LOSE MONEY. THERE IS NO SCENARIO WHERE YOU WILL "HOLD VALUE" OR NOT BE AT A NET NEGATIVE WITH THESE CARS, AT ALL.
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