Will Shaw, a Client Advisor at Long Beach BMW, is one lucky guy. He is one of the few people that were granted permission to get a BMW M3 in the unique Laguna Seca Blue color. As we learned in the past, BMW only allows small number of M3’s to be custom painted every year. Will was told that for the 2009 production year, there are under five units worldwide that will receive a custom paint job.
Of course, the car comes with a hefty price and the Laguna Seca paint will set you back another $5,000. Is it worth it? Well, If you have the extra cash and would like to be “different”, special, then YES, absolutely. The Laguna Seca Blue was one of the most popular colors on the M3’s and I have been drooling over it each time I would see one.
If the money is not an issue, Will Shaw is the man to talk to to. william.shaw@longbeachbmw.com
Looking forward to more LSB photos and I hope Long Beach BMW will share them with us when they get the M3.
[Source: m3post ]
11 Responses
Hantra
August 25th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
1Nice! I can’t wait for more pics of this one.
Dustin
August 25th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
2Looks like a convertible. I always loved that color and it looks great
Eric
August 25th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
3Never really like smurf blue…
Sba
August 25th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
4AHAHAH 5000$?!?!?
OMG dude I’d paint it by myself or not at a bmw dealer for less than 5k$.
That’s crazy…
Hantra
August 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
5@Sba - Uhhhh. . . This is a factory LSB paintjob. Although I recognize the faults, and the horrible orangepeel coming out of BMW now, there is no way you would get a paintjob as nice as factory for anywhere near $5K.
Eric
August 25th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
6Yeah, and a respray kills resale value.. bigtime. But then again, so does driving a brand new car off the lot and that doesn’t stop people from doing it.
Horatiu B.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
7@Sba: Yeah, but for some reason the factory paint is always better. I’ve seen the painting process and it’s quite complex and hard to replicate independently.
Hantra
August 25th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
8@Horatiu - Two reasons. One are robots. You can’t get a robot paintjob after the factory. Two is the high temp bake. You can’t do that after you get plastic, leather, glass, etc in the car.
Horatiu B.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
9@Hantra:
I fully agree, so I will take a factory paint job over the other one any day. Or you can use that crazy tape technique
Will Shaw
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:35 pm
10Hey guys - this is Will Shaw. Unfortunately that email address is incorrect.
Can you update it to william.shaw@longbeachbmw.com?
Also - check out the updated photos:
http://www.m3post.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188298
Horatiu B.
November 23rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
11@Will Shaw: Done
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