[krusty]

Hi Vanne

According to BMW Australia, the number of Z4 coupes in Australia are:
* 3.0L Z4 coupes: 157 (auto and manuals combined)
* 3.2L Z4 M coupe: 103

One can probably drop these numbers by around 10 in each category to account for accidents and write-offs, and we are down to probably around 90 Ms and 145 3.0l coupes left in Australia.

On carsales.com.au at the moment, there are 15 Z4 coupes for sale. Of the 15, only 2 are Ms! That is disproportionately low. So it seems the M owners are hanging on to theirs more keenly than the 3.0L owners.

Changing from LHD to RHD sounds a nightmare. Importing it into Oz will be a nightmare and expensive. If I were you, I would strip all your goodies / mods out, sell the one in Dubai, and try get another one in Oz, and fit the goodies / mods back.

As to price:
You seem to think $45000 is a lot for a Z4 M coupe (no doubt compared to Dubai). However, remember that the first owner of a Z4M would have paid about A$125,000 to buy it when new. To pay 1/3 the price now, ... for basically the same car ... seems pretty good value to me. Or to put it differently, the resale value is very poor compared to say a Porsche Cayman of the same year which originally cost the same as the M, but sell for more now.


To your advantage as a buyer: I don't think the market accurately reflects the rarity of the Z4 coupe in Australia. Part of the problem is that the RTA and the insurance companies don't have a separate model listing for the COUPE version. They just lump us in together with the roadster as an E85 ... which I think forces the same valuations on to everyone. Roadsters show their age more quickly - the fabric tops deteriorate in the sun, the inside gets exposed more, they tend to look more sun-aged than coupes. And we coupe owners get averaged out with them.

One day the market will wake up.