Buy This Car Phone-Equipped BMW 735i For The Same Price As An iPhone X
£995. That’s what you’ll have to pay to buy the newly-revealed iPhone X in the UK. It’s a staggering amount of money, so what I’d like to do is present you with an alternative. No, really - what you’re looking at here is a phone. It’s just a phone that just happens to have a BMW 735i attached to it.
Let’s gloss over the fact that the car phone in this E38 probably won’t work any more, and that a cheap 7er of this vintage could be ruinously expensive to run, because it’s being sold for - you guessed it - £995 (update: since dropped to £895, so it’s actually cheaper than an iPhone). A bargain, no?
You may not be able to unlock it with your own face, but who cares - that’s a substantial amount of car for the money. It’s also achingly cool - just imagine how awesome you’ll look swanning around in this beige-trimmed beauty.
The classified advert is full of car selling cliches, like how the 144,000 miles on the clock mean it’s “just run in for one of these cars,” and how it has “all the toys,” but we are helpfully told there is at least some sort of service history. The MOT being due in November is a worry, however - we don’t want to imagine how big the bill will be required for it to pass the next test.
With a lot of weight to shift, the 3.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8 under the bonnet allows for brisk rather than fast performance, managing the 0-60mph sprint in 8.4 seconds. It should sound good though, thanks to an aftermarket exhaust.
So, what will it be for you: an iPhone X, or a 19-year-old Bavarian luxobarge? Let us know in the comments, or if you have another used car gem you’d have over Apple’s latest smart phone, be sure to share it with us.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Most websites recently be like: “Here’s the (insert item here) you can get for the price of the new iPhone X”.
SRSLY?
Yeah but we’ve (sort of) recommended a phone as an alternative, so…
Yea, but why play driving game when you can drive irl.
I never understood the thing with cheap BMWs. I mean, you KNOW you’re going to play Russian Roulette. If it’s for sale at such a low price, it’s because there’s a problem somewhere. Basically, you’re buying a car but you don’t know when you’ll need to get the value of the car for repairs on it.
the demand for the cars is super low so they reduce the price to sell em. Maintenance and repairs isn’t always the problem, more like fuel consumption and insurance/tax.
I cannot afford either, oh well.
Well I mean, both can break easily so it doesn’t really matter what you choose
But unlike the iPhone, BMWs of that era is kinda cool.
I have no idea why older BMW’s have this reputation for breaking, like, for 20-years old cars they are really decent if you don’t buy a f**king lemonade barrel
Can break easily?
Excuse me, but I’ve fallen onto it (smashing it onto a rock) running down a hill, kicked it through a road crossing, and had it fall down the stairs more times than you could count, getting no more damage than a cracked screen.
How can you say that’s an easily breakable device?
Especially when you consider if you shrunk a car to the size of an iPhone you couldn’t even hold it with your hand without damaging it beyond repair.
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wait till something breaks, then part it out and get another 1.000 bucks one. If that one is broken fix with parts from previous car and sell the rest. Make profit :)
Id take this over an Iphone anyday
The iPhone has probably more power tho
Well the iPhone X costs about the same as a cell phone back when the 735i was new anyway.
I swear, the price of cars in foreign countries are absolutely mad. Here in Singapore, a new Honda Civic is equivalent to £58,000
That’s compared to £18,000 in the UK. MAD