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      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?!
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      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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talking of color... has anyone done individual color with the 1M?
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      07-15-2011, 06:40 AM   #5
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talking of color... has anyone done individual color with the 1M?
Only the 3 colors are available with NO special order or individual program available.
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      07-15-2011, 10:10 AM   #6
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talking of color... has anyone done individual color with the 1M?
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Only the 3 colors are available with NO special order or individual program available.
Correct. Unfortunately, the Leipzig plant (where 1M is produced) is not yet setup to take Individual orders.
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      07-15-2011, 10:16 AM   #7
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talking of color... has anyone done individual color with the 1M?
I asked and they are not doing individual. Besides it is 4,000. I had individual on my E46 M3 but my dealer threw it in because I paid MSRP.
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      07-15-2011, 12:19 PM   #8
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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?
Valencia Orange (VO) was initially supposed to be a test mule color only.
"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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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.
I have no problem painting my ex-wife orange.....where's the spray gun??
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I have no problem painting my ex-wife orange.....where's the spray gun??
But don't ask the FPSRussia gun freak dude to do it "the Russian way"
(skip the intro until 00:48 for the real action to awesomely kick in):
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I think for the people who bought VO, it would be nice that it was exclusive, that's all.
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It'll never look as good on any other car as it looks on the 1M and certainly not on the f20 period
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BMW AG is the owner of the paint and the M Division licensed the rights to use it on the new 1 Series M Coupe.
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      07-15-2011, 03:29 PM   #14
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The color VO was also used on their F800GS for 2010, that's were I fell in love with the color and the contrast with black.
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I have no problem painting my ex-wife orange.....where's the spray gun??
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But don't ask the FPSRussia gun freak dude to do it "the Russian way"
(skip the intro until 00:48 for the real action to awesomely kick in):
tThats freakin' great.. wonder if my attorney can pass of the expense of the flame thrower as a "Marriage Counseling aid"
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The only exclusivity is that the 1M is the only E82 that comes in that color...
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So many people said the 1M wasn't a real M so BMW went ahead and put it on the new One Angry Bird Edition.
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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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