Buying the Highest Mileage BMW Z3M Coupe in the US and Driving Across Country! 

Definitely a bucket list car for me and a forever car as long as life doesn't say otherwise!

@@Enginerded I hear that! The M Coupe would be an absolute last to go if i had to sell.

Thank you! Im super excited to get working on it. Will definitely be making some videos along the way

That's awesome and a fun story! Glad the car worked out and turned out to be what you hoped for. Agreed, they're a ton of fun to drive and definitely hard not to choose the clownshoe when i need to go somewhere!

Thank you! Looking forward to what's to come with the future of this car

It's a definitely a forever car!

Cant argue with that. The S52 has much less problems than the S54.

Thank you, agreed! Imola, evergreen, and dakar yellow are my favorites

Thats awesome! Im not sure ive seen a coupe with more miles than mine, but who knows. Just speculating

@@Enginerded my 99 m coupe just hit 230k. Still turns over without skipping a beat

@@Enginerded Bought my 99 M Coupe in 2019 with 243k Miles...Emola Red with Black and Red Interior

@@cplabaunza Do you mind telling me how much you paid?

@ToWcH back in 2019 I paid $12k

You're not wrong! The S52 is super stout and reliable and more torquey for every day driving. Its a great motor and would be fun to boost one day down the road. The S54 has always been a dream motor of mine though and i definitely need one some day, whether i swap it into the clownshoe or buy an e46 m3!

@@Enginerded I guess.. lol, I would put that money toward boosting and tuning the S52, but hey to each their own. If you choose to buy an S54 I would suggest low balling the seller and reminding him/her of how unreliable and expensive that engine can be for up keep. If you can find one at a steal it MAY be worth it. I personally wouldn't pay over 3.5k for one. Lol.. Good Luck 👌🏽😎💯

@@Enginerded Dang. I just looked at the price on those S54 engines and they are anywhere from $6k-$12k! 😂 Do you know how much better you can make the S52 vs the S54 for half that cost?? After the boost build on the S52, I would just purchase the S54 valve cover to make it look like the S54 while actually being better. 💯🤣🤣 The S54 isn't solid enough to be priced that high, the only way to get those prices down is for BMW owners to stop following the hype and actually realize that the M54, S52, and M52 engines are solid as hell and can easily make 400hp+ whp without even opening the block. It's not like the S54 sounds any different, in fact the M54B30 sounds a lot deeper and arguably better than the S54. So since you can make a 2.8-3.0 faster than the S54 with very little effort and money when compared to the price of the S54 engine alone, then what are people really paying for besides a ticking time bomb because of that intricate/complex head it has?? Not trying to argue with you, just can't make sense of the waste of money when you can literally have a faster and more reliable M54, S52, or M52 for literally less than half the cost of that entire S54 engine. 🤦🏾 Lol .smh.

Yeah the prices have gone really nuts for the S54's, but so has absolutely everything car related. The S54 is special (in my opinion) by its heavily motorsport derivation. Its a high strung NA I6 that you can rev to 8500-9000 rpm and the sound amazing. A nicely set uo S54 with the CSL air box, headers, and custom exhaust makes it sound absolutely amazing up top and paired with a short diff ratio, blasting through the gears with the noises that motor makes is hard to beat. Everyone has their own preference in engine sound/power delivery. That right there is where mine is. But also cant deny the awesome fun of a boosted S52 making tons of torque and all the good turbo noises, plus being less maintainence. Either way you go is a good time! I've had my E46 with the M54 for 9 years and that thing just doesnt give up. At 206k miles now with tons of cross country, track day, drift even, towing, and daily miles and it keeps chugging along.