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      03-05-2020, 02:50 AM   #1
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My new Tanzanite M340i - Best blue car ever

So my childhood friend.... who amazingly I met 33 years ago in kindergarten likes to be there for "the birth" of my cars. He's been around for 6/7.

And since he likes photography and takes pretty nice pictures with an SLR here they are. There's also one pic of me awkwardly holding a diet Coke pretending to put it on the roof because he cringes when people put things on the roof of their cars.

Also paying the extra money for tanzanite is the best idea ever. Though I may be biased, as my last 2 cars have also been blue. But this is the best one yet.
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Jealous! Love the car!
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it really is a beautiful color. what blues did you have before this?
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Can't agree more but I'm biased.
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it really is a beautiful color. what blues did you have before this?
just sold my midnight blue 2017 Audi A4 (way too dark)

previous to that had a 2013 328i in estoril blue.
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just sold my midnight blue 2017 Audi A4 (way too dark)

previous to that had a 2013 328i in estoril blue.
Agree with you about the A4. I have 228 in estoril and I love the color, but I'm getting alpine white on my new 330.
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just sold my midnight blue 2017 Audi A4 (way too dark)

previous to that had a 2013 328i in estoril blue.
Agree with you about the A4. I have 228 in estoril and I love the color, but I'm getting alpine white on my new 330.
yeah my friend who took the pics of my m340i upstaged me and picked up a sepang blue A4 as a custom order after I had bought off the lot and made me step up my game. estoril I felt after 4 years it was a bit too in your face, I wanted something more muted after too.
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Congratulations, looks sharp! How do you like the Alum mesh? Did you get the white or blue contrast stitching?
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Congratulations, looks sharp! How do you like the Alum mesh? Did you get the white or blue contrast stitching?
Nah I got sensatec. I am pretty lazy about maintaining leather, so there isn't any contrast stitching.

The aluminum mesh looks pretty decent, I had the tetragon or whatever on my F30 and decided I'd rather not have that odd pattern again if I went with metal trim. Metal trim I felt like worked with black sensatec and I have weird issues with colors (another reason I didn't get cognac,.... i'm partly colorblind and it looks weird in person to me.... )
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So my childhood friend.... who amazingly I met 33 years ago in kindergarten likes to be there for "the birth" of my cars. He's been around for 6/7.

And since he likes photography and takes pretty nice pictures with an SLR here they are. There's also one pic of me awkwardly holding a diet Coke pretending to put it on the roof because he cringes when people put things on the roof of their cars.

Also paying the extra money for tanzanite is the best idea ever. Though I may be biased, as my last 2 cars have also been blue. But this is the best one yet.
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Congratulations, looks sharp! How do you like the Alum mesh? Did you get the white or blue contrast stitching?
Nah I got sensatec. I am pretty lazy about maintaining leather, so there isn't any contrast stitching.

The aluminum mesh looks pretty decent, I had the tetragon or whatever on my F30 and decided I'd rather not have that odd pattern again if I went with metal trim. Metal trim I felt like worked with black sensatec and I have weird issues with colors (another reason I didn't get cognac,.... i'm partly colorblind and it looks weird in person to me.... )
The blue looks great to us non-color blind folks too!
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Gorgeous car! Seeing this is making me wonder if I should've gone with TB too. I had the option between similarly optioned TB and MG cars on the lot, but didn't want to pay extra for the color .
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One of the best shades of Blue. Only second to San Marino Blue (humbly speaking).

Congratulations! Enjoy the ride.
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One of the best shades of Blue. Only second to San Marino Blue (humbly speaking).

Congratulations! Enjoy the ride.
Theres someone on instagram https://www.instagram.com/sanmarino_m340i/ that got a bmw individual san marino blue m340i. And yeah it is gorgeous.
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One of the best shades of Blue. Only second to San Marino Blue (humbly speaking).

Congratulations! Enjoy the ride.
Theres someone on instagram https://www.instagram.com/sanmarino_m340i/ that got a bmw individual san marino blue m340i. And yeah it is gorgeous.
Thank for sharing. That M340i in San Marino Blue is indeed gorgeous.
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I have a thing for blue cars now. Favourite blue paints (regardless of brand) in no order:

Carbon Black (I don't care, I still count this as blue)
Tanzanite I & II
San Marino Blue
Gentian Blue (Porsche)
Navarro Blue (Audi)

Mercedes does not have a blue that has caught my eye.
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