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Originally Posted by JayR_e92

What I would like to avoid is spending 20K on one that is at the peak of its market value and I own for say about 5 years and put very little miles on it But because the car was already at 100,000 miles when I bought it I end up having to sell it later for 15 K or less. I realize that is not the end of the world for sure but it can be done if you purchase the right one within that sweet spot.

Can't help you too much in terms of what's right for you. I cannot predict what the market will do, but you're not going to lose $15k out of $20-25k, that I'm at least confident in.

To be honest, I think you need to not just focus on price but what you really want. Are you adding this car to your E90 M3? The reason I personally added the E36 m3 to the E92 M3 is because I wanted a more back to basics car than the E46 M3, nor did I want to deal with all the issues. I just wanted cars on more opposite ends of the spectrum.

If I had to guess, a really expensive E36 M3 (ie 20-25k) "should" hold its value well because that means it'll be really low mileage (ie under 80k miles let's say). Those just don't pop up very often due to cars age and how they were used. E36 got so cheap that they were just passed around and neglected.