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BMW 320i Touring Automatic (E30)

BMW 320i Touring Automatic (E30)

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BMW 320i Touring Automatic (E30)BMW 320i Touring Automatic (E30)
Lot number 20
Hammer value £2,000
Description BMW 320i Touring Automatic (E30)
Registration G881 NWE
Year 1990
Colour Blue
Engine size 1,990 cc
Chassis No. WBAAH62070EA95429
Engine No. 26464779

A massively important car for BMW, the E30 3-Series ran from 1982 to 1990 and cemented BMW’s reputation as market leader in the medium sector, being the car that every Yuppie aspired to in the shoulder-padded Eighties.

Beautifully built, with understated styling and a glassy, thin-pillared cabin (the work of Claus Luthe), it summed up everything that was good about German engineering. Light, agile and sporting, it enjoyed a classless appeal that made it as welcome at a posh country house party as it was at an inner city rave – qualities that apply just as much today as they ever did.

Although the base models made do with four-cylinder engines, the upper models in the range, with their straight-six power, rear wheel drive and perfectly judged steering, were the ones to have. The 320i and – even more so – the 325i were a real driver’s delight and shared basically the same chassis as the now legendary E30 M3, widely considered to be the finest handling saloon of its era and worth serious money today.

This 1990 example has the super-smooth fuel-injected 129bhp two-litre straight-six (which gave the car a 124mph top speed and a 0-60 time of 9.5 seconds) mated to a 4-speed ZF auto box. It has the elegant Touring body which makes it a thoroughly practical family classic with plenty of room for dogs and bicycles.

Dark blue metallic with a grey velour interior, it has covered some 120,000 miles to date with a good service history comprising 11 stamps in the book with many supporting invoices, being last serviced at 112,000 miles when the cambelt was also changed. Supplied with all its original handbooks and very clean throughout, it is MOTd until February 2016.

As the excellent Honest John website says of the E30: “grab a good one now – values are bound to be on the up soon.”

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