New owner, SG CSL

[Ben]

kudos. you've had some rare birds there. I've only ever seen 1 celebration, in the violet on some 3.6 speedlines, looked mega.

It would be a Blu Lagos Edition? Great colour and interior

[HFLagos]

Thanks Ben. That Celebration must have indeed looked great!

And yes mine was the Blu Lagos edition, around 215 produced in total. The other main limited editions for the Evo II were the Giallo (Yellow with black alcantara), Dealers Collection (Burgundy with Tan) and Bianco Perlato (Pearl White with Blue).

The Final Edition was dark red with black and went to Japan but over time a few have found their way here.

[_Nathan_]

apparently one of six cars to do so

Where did you get that info? Doubt it was that rare? Mine was done, I suspect all the press cars too?

[HFLagos]

Nathan - I got the information from the first owner (mentioned earlier), he was led to believe only about half a dozen cars came to the UK direct from the factory as delimited. I also spoke to Murketts about this recently, it was not a straightforward option on new CSL's.

In order for a brand new CSL to have this map, the customer had to provide evidence of having a racing licence. (there are plenty of references to this also elsewhere on the net)

Since then, other owners have had a delimited map put on their car from BMW direct, but I have read that they needed to also provide evidence of having a racing licence.

I don't know about press cars to be honest, you may well be right.

[Trawler]

Nice to bump into you yesterday at Elms. Don't forget to book up the Munich trip.

[HFLagos]

Originally Posted by Trawler

Nice to bump into you yesterday at Elms. Don't forget to book up the Munich trip.

Good to see you too Trawler

Point taken re: Munich, will see what's possible. Meanwhile, Elms kindly gave me a white w/red leather 320d Convertible as a courtesy car whilst the subframe on my car is being done. Great mpg, but I can't wait to get the CSL back!

[streightsix]

Loved the Lagos blue, I had a white 16v for nearly 6 years, hindsight etc etc. I just missed out getting one of the fast road Giallo ones from germany (can't remember what the tuning company was).

Think I've read of a few factory delimited csl's on here, didn't appreciate how rare they were, hasn't Neil M got one? - he seems to be another font of knowledge...

I was looking around at the end of last year trying to decide between returning to an Integrale or getting a csl... I know how good the Integrale is but the csl blew my mind...

...we've been together 17 days now - can't wait to get home

[HFLagos]

Originally Posted by streightsix

Loved the Lagos blue, I had a white 16v for nearly 6 years, hindsight etc etc. I just missed out getting one of the fast road Giallo ones from germany (can't remember what the tuning company was).

Think I've read of a few factory delimited csl's on here, didn't appreciate how rare they were, hasn't Neil M got one? - he seems to be another font of knowledge...

I was looking around at the end of last year trying to decide between returning to an Integrale or getting a csl... I know how good the Integrale is but the csl blew my mind...

...we've been together 17 days now - can't wait to get home

The German company which did the fast yellow ones was called Holzer I think? I remember way back I used to be on the Evocorner forum and one of the regular contributors had one.

I loved my Lagos, have thought about getting a Final Edition, but may be best just to look back fondly now. Parts availability is a concern.

[Trawler]

Originally Posted by HFLagos

Good to see you too Trawler

Point taken re: Munich, will see what's possible. Meanwhile, Elms kindly gave me a white w/red leather 320d Convertible as a courtesy car whilst the subframe on my car is being done. Great mpg, but I can't wait to get the CSL back!

Great mpg that was its only redeeming feature when I was loaned a 320d convertible.