Vehicle Description
1998 BMW 328i Convertible - One Owner - 33k Original Miles - Texas
Car - 2.8L Inline 6 - 5 Speed Manual - Power Convertible Top
(Please note: If you happen to be viewing this 1998 BMW 328i
Convertible on a website other than our Garage Kept Motors site,
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access all the more than 140 photographs, as well as a short
start-up and walk-around video, and a link to BMW's
accident-and-damage-free, low-mileage, one-owner Carfax history
report, please go to our main website: Garage Kept Motors.) A
magical car �€" Top Gear Magazine In a 2015 article entitled
Driving all the BMW 3-Series, Chapter 3: E36 (1991-1998), writer
Paul Horrell virtually bubbled over with praise for the E36: 'The
cabin is lovingly made but delicate and unboastful. Everything's
compact and concise �€" the vents, rotary heater knobs, the
buttons, even the main clocks. But it all works beautifully. The
seat is slim but perfectly supportive. It all sets the tone for a
car that treads down the road lightly but with terrific precision.
This really is a masterful suspension. The steering is just lovely,
full of feel, perfectly proportional. It's not that high-geared but
it just seems to follow your thoughts. And the car follows the
steering, its motions precise yet somehow relaxed. There's not vast
grip from the 225/5016s, but hey it's enough. The ride is a
high-water-mark too. The little 24-valve six-cylinder engine is
fabulously crisp. Not vastly powerful, no, at 170bhp, but happy to
rev. Always eager to the throttle and sweet to the ears.' Offered
here is a one-owner 1998 BMW 328i Convertible from the final year
of the legendary E36 model series. The car is silver over
light-gray beneath a black-fabric, power-operated convertible top.
Since being manufactured in Munich and imported to the U.S., the
car has traveled just 33,515 miles, fewer than 1,500 miles per-year
on average. The car's superb condition shows every indication of
impeccable maintenance in service to its only owner to date. The
exterior Arctic Silver metallic paint is virtually flawless across
the entire body, including the lower, bodyside ground effects
panels. The clearcoat is consistent, and the shine appears almost
factory-new. There is no damage anywhere on the sheet metal. The
black-fabric convertible top is similarly free of damage or serious
wear indications. The black rub strip that surrounds the car
appears never to have rubbed anything. The chrome surround for the
bespoke kidney-shaped front grille is perfectly shiny and
undamaged. Lighting lenses fore and aft are clear and uncracked;
the lightly smoked lens covering the quad headlights shows slight
clouding. Characteristically minimal factory badging-including the
blue-and-white (replicating the City of Munich crest colors) BMW
emblems on the hood and rear deck, and the 328i model
designation-is properly in place. Split-spoke factory alloy wheels
(in excellent, undamaged condition) with BMW-logo center caps are
mounted with Yokohama® S530 all-season performance tires. The car's
interior is classic BMW, the perfect interpretation of what The
Ultimate Driving Machine should offer its driver and passengers
(although to be fair, there is little evidence here that a
passenger ever sat in this car!) Gray-leather upholstery shows
virtually no wear indications; the color is classic German,
reserved, yet elegant. Sculpted door trim includes both light and
darker gray panels. Very well-maintained medium-gray carpeting
covers the cabin floors. The BMW-logo sport steering wheel frames a
distinctly driver-focused dashboard, covered on top in dark gray.
Instrumentation, vents, controls for HVAC and factory audio are
arranged on a sweeping, black-faced dash segment, with outer
portions angled toward the driver; the dark-gray portion of the
dash facing the front passenger is free of all but
