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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- If you ever happn to google search anE46 ZHP you will find a vast threads, from forums, FB groups, reviews by car journalists,…etc. once you start reading multiple threads you will be more confused than when you first started that curiosity to why this NA 235hp & 222 pound feet of torque underpowered “sport” car is so saught after in today’s turbo charged & supercharged engines with dual clutch autoTragic transmissions with paddle shifters “to avoid the slight delay a real manual shifts into gear” to avoid losing that 2 or 3 tenth of a second of their vehicles claimed 0-60 that in some of the current offering has gone down to the sub 3 seconds even though traffic laws hasn’t changed when it comes to speed limits specially going straight. Not to mention EVs (I just threw up in my mouth!).
Now, jokes aside, what makes an E46 ZHP so special (with a 6MT and 3 pedals of course). From ownership perspective & experience. I usually look at two factors. Cost of ownership vs Fun factor. At least it has to balance itself out in order to justify owning such bimmer. The beauty about the E46 ZHP w/6MT is that it feels like whoever thought of the ZHP package was an owner of an E46 330 w/ZSP packaged that always had that feeling of something missing with his car and was miles away in comparison with its big bodybuilding athletic brother the E46 M3. It’s like comparngArnold Schwarzenegger & Danny DeVito, in the movie Twins. Those subtle but effective changes or we can call them upgrades that were performed on the non-M E46 330 with the good all M54B30 took that model from being Danny DeVito to Franco Columbu. Not Arnold Schwarzenegger’s level, but still a to performer and competed on the same level. On paper, horsepower and torque are not a big deal to the reader or the non-enthusiast. Only 10 hp and 8 pound feet of torque gains specially in today’s numbers and not looking at it from when this package was offered in 2003, 21 years ago.
If I continue writing this will turn out to be another car journalist page. To summarize this total package of a vehicle. It is truly an ultimate driving experience. Well put together. It shows how BMW was a driver focused car manufacturer and not a lease cars” maker with so much technology thrown at it that it lost it identity. BMW no longer cater to that type of a driver focus client. They limited that to their M division now. Even the M divison is veering away from the driver enthusiast and have joined the horse power numbers type of buyers that all they want to do is to put it in launch mode from light to light or stop sign the stop sign. Exhaust notes enhanced via the infotainment system’s speakers. No longer that true analog feel and fun but a nub synthetic feel for zombie type of riders that are looking to ride an iPad on wheels.
Do you want to have a smile from ear to ear looking like the grinch then get behind a car like this (M-lite) or an M performance model from the same era, older and little newer. My preference is to be an E-chassis Bimmer. The E-chassis bimmer were in my humble opinion the most fun, good looking and with characteristics that is unique to each model unlike today’s models that share the same weird looks with those massive kidney grills looking like wall radiator heaters that you find in old East Coast an midwestern apartments and homes . Not excluding that dull interior that is over stuffed with tech and gadgets. I won’t know where to start when getting in one of these models. And what’s up with that ridiculous screen from one end of the dashboard to the other end. Good luc fixing all these when those cars get older and climmd in mileage!
We all know bimmers always been over engineered and yes they have their flaws. All their oil gaskets will leak (valve cover, oil filter housing, oil pan) and yes their coolant system is finicky due to the use of plastic material that from heat cycles eventually will become brittle and fall apart and in coolant expansion tank case, explodes! But bimmer heads know that already and willing to adopt that known flaws for the sake of the fun factor experience and we figured a way around it and that is either get another job to support the maintenance 😆, become a “certified youtube mechanic” 😉 or just do what I do and first make sure to take your sweet time in finding a well maintained model, take it in for a PPI to address the major oil leaks and then treat it like it had never received its 100K mikes service. In addition overhault the cooling system, draining all the fluids changing all the filters and all the rubber bushing. You catch my drift. You need to spend money to have fun without having one eye on the road and the other eye on the instrument cluster/gauges and lights. If that is roo much for your pocets then you aren’t ready yet
Feel free to drop me a comment if you agree, diagree, would like to add or have any question if you are considering purchasing one. Please be nice and courteous. We dont own the company! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
You down with ZHP. Yeah you know me!
good car
I 💯agree with you!
do some vidio with drifting to get more suscribe
I baby this car.