BMW E36 M3 3.2 Saloon manual, UK import, called 24 Sep 2026.
Published on 24 Sep 2026, before the lot closed. It ended without a sale, so there is no hammer to grade it against.
A 1998 BMW E36 M3 Evolution Saloon running on Collecting Cars out of Cheltenham, Victoria — Aegean Blue Metallic over Dove Grey Nappa with wood trim, 181,787 miles indicated which is 292,556 kilometres, six-speed manual, a United Kingdom car complied here in February 2010, on club plates, with a full repaint and one key.
At more than twice the 130,000 kilometres the entry expects, and the record's own evidence says that matters far less than it should. Its six counted results include $38,250 at 191,960km and $38,750 at 190,872km, both strong, against $32,500 at 141,627km. Distance barely orders this model here, which is why the coefficient sits at 1.0 and why the odometer only takes ten points off a car that has covered 292,556 kilometres.
$32,500 at Graceville, Queensland in May 2025 for a 1996 Evolution SEDAN at 141,627 kilometres, a body never officially sold in Australia. Indexed forward on the European performance series and carried out to this car's distance, that lands near $32,400 before anything else is priced. Both cars are imports, so no import penalty is applied twice against that anchor.
Minus 10 for the odometer, plus 1.5 for the last year of the run, minus 12 for a United Kingdom import on a model BMW sold here new, minus 6 for a full repaint, minus 4 for Bilstein and Eibach in place of the original suspension, minus 2 for one key, and PLUS 8 FOR THE WORK. Composed, minus 23.2 per cent, and $29,176.
The itemised recent list runs to springs and shocks front and rear, sway bar links, bushes, discs, pads, brake master cylinder, clutch master and slave, clutch hose, thermostat, radiator hoses, fan coupling, belt, tensioner and rollers, a reconditioned tailshaft, a new windscreen, new Alcantara headlining, refurbished wood, new leather front seats and tyres 700 kilometres old. On a 292,000-kilometre E36 that is most of the things that fail, done. The ladder pays 6 for a service history with cooling records and 5 for original suspension; it has no row for a car that has just been rebuilt around the driver, so 8 is taken as judgement and named as one.
A shade above the model. Predicted hammer $23,000 to $38,000, midpoint $30,000.
Three hundred thousand kilometres is a number some rooms will not look past whatever has been spent, the saloon is the less wanted body, and a full repaint on a car with no accident disclosure is a question rather than a feature.
The call is a prediction of one hammer. The record behind it is the Australian evidence for the model as a whole, and it carries its own grade for how much of that evidence exists.
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