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As much as I'd like to put 25000 miles a year on the Dakar, I just can't. And as much as we have the trucks, I need something else I can use which is practical, will carry some dogs, decent amount of shopping etc.

So I started looking at something more practical and am just trying to work out how to get it to the far (proper) north.

Its 4WD and an estate.
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M5 Touring?
Left over crest; tightens.
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A Subaru Outback. Which is probably nowhere near the actual car.

How far south? I wonder if the forum could do a relay delivery for you :lol:
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Ferrari FF :lol:










































I'm just trying to run down the time to p.2 when you have to tell us as we could be guessing a while.
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BMW M340D given the mileage, but could be M340i
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1. Panamera estate.

B. Skoda Superb 2.0 TSI 4x4 Laurin & Klement DSG Estate
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too vague. we need an idea of how much you spent - could be anything from a 1990s volvo to a brand new rs6 otherwise.
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Golf R Estate.
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Old shonky Landy Defender 110 pickup with a hardtop and some picnic seats in the back for passengers.
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Been stuck on a call and just looked back at this which has made me :lol:

Lots of those suggestions were considered and ruled out. I think I started at an old 5 series touring, then naturally looked at v61 M5s and at one point had someone offering me their director's demo M5 touring for a "good price, should be under 150k".

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Can't believe nobody guessed this right out of the gate given my history with BMWs and shooting brakes/clown shoes/tourings, not to mention going back to something I've had before.

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things are going “quite well” then?
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Rich B wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 1:52 pm things are going “quite well” then?
:lol:
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Nice though! 8-)
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I was about to ask if everything is ok at home and how did everything go so badly 😂

Live in a Croft away from humans, buys cool sports cars, sounds perfect 😎

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I loved that car.

"Then why did you sell it if you loved it so much?"

Shut up wife and internet forum.
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You do you man.
How about not having a sig at all?
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Is it your old one? Or just one very like it (can't remember what colour yours was)?
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Ascender wrote: Fri Jun 06, 2025 2:06 pm I loved that car.

"Then why did you sell it if you loved it so much?"

Shut up wife and internet forum.
:lol: What spec was your original M3 Touring? And did you choose it yourself? I assume you've gone for this one because of the colour scheme and the type of seats.
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My one was Tanzanite (dark) blue but the options spec was identical to this one - the ultimate pack is everything bar carbon ceramics and the speed limiter removed. If I was doing it again, I'd probably go for an Individual colour - when I ordered mine, there were still some manufacturing delays post-covid with certain things like individual paint and carbon seats.

I did spec my one and changed the wheels later on to the larger frozen gold ones. I won't be doing that again as it turned out they're really easily buckled... But I will get a set of winter tyres and maybe see if I can find a set of different alloys so I can easily swap.

I didn't want a black,silver or grey car, so by the time you filter those out, you're down to about a dozen. Add in a decent selection of options (laser lights, buckets and the driving aids which my wife loves) and you're down to about 3 cars. This one also had a service pack on it, rubber boot liner and mats and I love the colour.
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Dammit, just came here to post M3 Touring!.. let’s pretend I did it before you told everyone! What do I win?? 😂😉
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