335i's to be crushed

bmwmike · 09-20-2006, 12:15 AM

I heard that the pre-production 335i coupes are being run around to all the dealers up here for the employees to try out and then BMW will crush them. Oh my!!!!

ZuerstBMW · 09-20-2006, 12:17 AM

Crush them?

Ray · 09-20-2006, 12:28 AM

Where did you hear this from?

astra · 09-20-2006, 12:30 AM

bmwmike · 09-20-2006, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ThreeThirtyEye

Where did you hear this from?

An employee at the BMW Store that test drove one of them last week. He said they don't have the necessary approvals. I have heard before about BMW crushing vehicles so this doesn't surprise me - it just hurts to hear it's going to be done.

BeeEmDubU · 09-20-2006, 01:26 AM

why would they do that? they can give it to me for free instead

OpenFlash · 09-20-2006, 01:28 AM

Pretty normal for pre-production vehicles to get crushed. Good for tuners though since they are the cars that are usually given to them for extended loans. We usually can keep a car for 1-2 years before we have to return it back to the manufacturer for crushing. During that time, it is fully street legal, fully ensured, etc,. But its days are limited

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Vishnu Performance Systems

07-335i · 09-20-2006, 01:58 AM

what you mean crush them? what is that mean?

Dev330 · 09-20-2006, 03:09 AM

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Originally Posted by 07-335i

what you mean crush them? what is that mean?

They put the car into a machine, that squashes it into a cube for scrap metal

aem · 09-20-2006, 03:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Dev330

They put the car into a machine, that squashes it into a cube for scrap metal

Nah, it doesnt mean that.

It means, they are gonna put the car into a blender and make smoothies out of them....

TheAcAvenger · 09-20-2006, 07:21 AM

Cough Cough. I'm a tuner, give me one to keep for a few years... haha

txusa03 · 09-20-2006, 07:47 AM

why go thru the trouble and financial burden of crushing them, I will take it off their hands no charge...

BK · 09-20-2006, 09:18 AM

I'm crushing your head! I'm crushing your head!

NJjustin · 09-20-2006, 10:22 AM

I installed the blacklines i had myself...does that qualify me a tuner??

tman · 09-20-2006, 10:28 AM

wtf!

findtom · 09-20-2006, 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Dev330

They put the car into a machine, that squashes it into a cube for scrap metal

It's quite painful to hear that.

akhbhaat · 09-20-2006, 11:09 AM

Why does this bother any of you? They'll be crushed and recycled so that the material within can be reused in other cars. An abused prototype deserves no other fate - with the production models now available, the company has no use for them. Would it be better to let them sit in a yard, derelict?

4nroots · 09-20-2006, 11:28 AM

they did this same thing to about a few dozen Audi RS4's that were brought to North America as pre-production test cars for dealers/magazines etc...

all for liability's sake I believe

nmulax · 09-20-2006, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by 4nroots

they did this same thing to about a few dozen Audi RS4's that were brought to North America as pre-production test cars for dealers/magazines etc...

all for liability's sake I believe

exactly... this isn't odd to BMW. Every manufacturer does this with their pre-production vehicles. Sure a few may make it into some corporate museum to sit and collect dust; but the rest get turned to scrap metal.

*stupid sidenote: I hit post 335 in a thread about the 335i

jojogargoles · 09-20-2006, 11:34 AM

ill crush their face!

rolling18 · 09-20-2006, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by akhbhaat

Why does this bother any of you? They'll be crushed and recycled so that the material within can be reused in other cars. An abused prototype deserves no other fate - with the production models now available, the company has no use for them. Would it be better to let them sit in a yard, derelict?

because its a TOTAL and complete waist of many perfectly good parts!!
thats much worse than what you describe..

they should just sell them as PART cars... and make $$$ back from them thats REAL recycling. mabey w/o the "abused" engine and tranny

vladinecko · 09-20-2006, 03:24 PM

my cousin works for chrysler and this is a common practice there as well. there are certain parts of the car that can be salvaged, however.

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