Four days and counting...

mash11 · 02-25-2014, 04:54 PM

...until I join the Gran Coupe club

BMWMilan · 02-25-2014, 05:16 PM

Beautiful. Congrats.

What color is that?

neversummer78 · 02-25-2014, 11:30 PM

Deep sea blue? It looks like my color. I like the look of the headrest than the one I have.

mash11 · 02-26-2014, 02:55 AM

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Originally Posted by BMWMilan

Beautiful. Congrats.

What color is that?

Thanks! I can't wait to pick it up on Saturday morning. 😊

The colour is Tanzanite Blue, one of the BMW Individual colours.

mash11 · 02-26-2014, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by neversummer78

Deep sea blue? It looks like my color. I like the look of the headrest than the one I have.

Thanks. The sports seats / headrests came part of the M Sports pack.

GOLFFRR · 02-26-2014, 06:28 AM

stunning

DR1er · 02-26-2014, 09:25 AM

Not too shabby!

+1 on the seats

congrats and enjoy it!

pbw · 02-26-2014, 04:33 PM

Looking good. Congratulations and happy motoring.

bmwjpn · 02-27-2014, 12:31 AM

Sweet ride - welcome!

doug_999 · 02-27-2014, 06:28 AM

Looks like car is in and ready to go! Why four days? PS - wow on the color. WOW!

mash11 · 02-27-2014, 09:06 AM

Thanks - I ordered Tanzanite Blue without having seen the colour on a car (only on the colour samples). I'm glad it worked out!

Why the wait - In the UK the current registration plates include two digits that represent the age of the car. These digits change every 6 months (1st March and 1st September). If you buy a car anywhere near the change over dates, people tend to wait to get the new registration digits as it affects the residual values.

My car is being registered with '14' plates and these can't be legally driven on the road until 1st March. Currently the UK registration digits are '63' which covers the period from 1st Sep 13 - 28th Feb 14. '14' goes from 1st Mar 14 - 30th Aug 14 and then they'll got to '64' on 1st Sep.

The UK used to change the registration digit just once a year, but the demand spikes were pretty huge for the automotive industry and they lobbied for two registration changes every year to smooth things out a little.

I believe in many countries the residuals are more affected by the model year. Here we'd ask what 'reg' a car is, rather than what year.

The UK registration system still produces peaks and troughs in demand. My sales guy at the North Oxford dealership for instance had a quota of 3 new car sales for February, which he missed, but a quota of 16 new cars for March, which he has already blown away! Two of which are ours.

One of the fun things about the change in registration digits here is it makes for a great game of eye-spy. There will be many kids in the back of their parents cars looking out for brand new '14' plates over the weekend!

363ny · 02-27-2014, 09:30 AM

Congrats - the Tanzanite Blue is beautiful!

SpokenHands · 03-02-2014, 06:15 AM

Fantastic colour, wish you many years of safe motoring.
A well specified 6 GC is a stunner at many levels!

Noticed you got the matte aluminium exterior trim on the M Sport.
I did too and it really makes the car's coupe lines pop!

doug_999 · 03-02-2014, 07:10 AM

Would love more pictures - especially of the color!

I am/was thinking deep sea blue would be perfect, but damn, that color has me intrigued.

davuusM6GC · 03-02-2014, 07:17 AM

How does carbon black when appearing blue compare with tanzanite?

ManiacGT · 03-02-2014, 07:27 AM

I'd so love one of these.. Yours is a stunner.

I just don't want to get into finance nor do I have 60K to throw at one cash lol

mash11 · 03-02-2014, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by SpokenHands

Fantastic colour, wish you many years of safe motoring.
A well specified 6 GC is a stunner at many levels!

Noticed you got the matte aluminium exterior trim on the M Sport.
I did too and it really makes the car's coupe lines pop!

Thanks SpokenHands for your help specifying the car in the first place. I'm so glad I swapped over the leather to Ivory White. You were spot on there.

I also took your advise and got a local detailer to prepare the car with the GTechniq glass coat. The dealership even provided my guy space in the showroom to do the work before collecting the cars yesterday.

mash11 · 03-02-2014, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by davuusM6GC

How does carbon black when appearing blue compare with tanzanite?

As it happens we picked up two cars from North Oxford yesterday, my Tanzanite Blue Gran Coupe and my wife picked up her new Carbon Black X5.

Here's some side by side photos of both cars together so you can see the difference!

GreyCoupe · 03-02-2014, 08:37 AM

The blue is killer in the sunshine!

davuusM6GC · 03-02-2014, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by mash11

Quote:

Originally Posted by davuusM6GC

How does carbon black when appearing blue compare with tanzanite?

As it happens we picked up two cars from North Oxford yesterday, my Tanzanite Blue Gran Coupe and my wife picked up her new Carbon Black X5.

Here's some side by side photos of both cars together so you can see the difference!

That is too funny! Thanks for the pics, damn, it's so hard to choose, but I'm still leaning towards Carbon Black!

doug_999 · 03-02-2014, 04:56 PM

Direct sun, and no sun - This might cost me like $2K now!

LSM · 03-02-2014, 05:00 PM

Tanzanite is a badass color. Love it!!...

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mash11 New Member 1 Rep 15 Posts Drives: F06 GC & F15 X5 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Oxford, United Kingdom iTrader: (0) Garage List 2014 X5 40d M Sport [0.00] 2014 640d M Sport G ... [0.00]	Thanks - I ordered Tanzanite Blue without having seen the colour on a car (only on the colour samples). I'm glad it worked out! Why the wait - In the UK the current registration plates include two digits that represent the age of the car. These digits change every 6 months (1st March and 1st September). If you buy a car anywhere near the change over dates, people tend to wait to get the new registration digits as it affects the residual values. My car is being registered with '14' plates and these can't be legally driven on the road until 1st March. Currently the UK registration digits are '63' which covers the period from 1st Sep 13 - 28th Feb 14. '14' goes from 1st Mar 14 - 30th Aug 14 and then they'll got to '64' on 1st Sep. The UK used to change the registration digit just once a year, but the demand spikes were pretty huge for the automotive industry and they lobbied for two registration changes every year to smooth things out a little. I believe in many countries the residuals are more affected by the model year. Here we'd ask what 'reg' a car is, rather than what year. The UK registration system still produces peaks and troughs in demand. My sales guy at the North Oxford dealership for instance had a quota of 3 new car sales for February, which he missed, but a quota of 16 new cars for March, which he has already blown away! Two of which are ours. One of the fun things about the change in registration digits here is it makes for a great game of eye-spy. There will be many kids in the back of their parents cars looking out for brand new '14' plates over the weekend! Last edited by mash11; 02-27-2014 at 09:08 AM.. Reason: correction
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