07-15-2011, 03:44 AM | #1 |
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Wasn't Valencia Orange supposed to be a 1M Exclusive?!
WTF?! Wasn't VO supposed to be a 1M exclusive - said by BMW themselves? BMW's starting to piss me off with their succumbing to marketing and recent lack of honesty... Thoughts and comments? News?
Also - I thought Estoril Blue was discontinued - supposed to be offered for the F20 if you get the Performance pckg so I hear?! |
07-15-2011, 05:58 AM | #2 |
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No, they never said it was a 1M exclusive. It was just new.
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07-15-2011, 06:40 AM | #5 |
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Only the 3 colors are available with NO special order or individual program available.
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"Why Valencia Orange? Ironically, the 1M was first presented to Dr. Segler in Valencia Orange and it was so good that the color made it to the production model. As a fun fact, we observed Dr. Segler was wearing a new Rolex Milgauss which had a black dial with orange second hand and dash marks. True love for the color scheme…" (source: http://www.bmwblog.com/2011/01/21/bm...-need-to-know/) During the 2011 NA International Auto Show Dr. Kay Segler (CEO of BMW M GmbH) disclosed that VO is his favorite 1M color: "It's on offer in three colors but definitely this is the color you'll have to order: it's Valencia Orange". IMHO VO suits well the 1M. Is it really an issue for you that other BMW cars might sport VO too? Trophy car? C'mon, as long as you like the color, all's fine, isn't it? After all, it's a car, not your wife. |
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I have no problem painting my ex-wife orange.....where's the spray gun??
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07-15-2011, 10:05 PM | #18 |
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I don't think it really matters, just about every "special" BMW color ends up on other models. And the individual program makes it available to any cars you could order that way (I think there have already been pictures of an E90 in VO).
That said, I think VO will end up being the iconic color for this short run car in the future. You could certainly draw a correlation from Hennarot (E30) to Valencia Orange (E82), as I assume Dr. Kay did when he saw the color. Does it matter that you can find other non-M models in Hennarot? |
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