2009 BMW M3 Sedan: Now My Kids Call It the Mtree

Would you really do that if it were *your* car alone, Chief?

Sweet tree, btw. You should use Stiggy keychains as ornaments.

I've put a Christmas tree on the roof of my 3 series 4 times. Never had any problems!

Oh it makes me want to pine fir an M3 even more, because it's got two trunks.

I guess BMW is trying to branch out even more. Did the M3 have even more bark to its bite with the tree on top?

How high did the speedometer needle go?

You have a CX-9 and you picked the M3 for tree duty??

On a much, much more serious note...

I still think that sedans and wagons are very capable hauling vehicles for DINKs or small families, but the "bigger is better", "holier than thou" and "keeping up with the Jones'" mentality is the reason why SUVs, and now crossovers, seem to be required to have a versatile vehicle.

I do understand the potential need for a large SUV if you need to carry 3+ kids and some cargo around.

Sport wagons for the versatility win, coupes for the awesomeness win!

Thanks for Buying at The Home Depot!

At least you put something down this time... poor A4 Avant.

Hmmm, to scratch the M3, or the CX9...M3 or CX9...M3 or CX9....................I'll scratch the M3.
Scott, you are crazy.

How is your family liking the CX9 so far?

@questionlp, very punny but I think Scott's kids win this one!

@ergsum,

I wasn't trying to outdo Scott's kids, in fact I chuckled when I read it. Instead, I wanted to extend the punishment :)

Any of those pics would have been great for a caption contest!

Another reason to not buy cars from this people, they just do whatever they want with them LOL..... yeah right if they really were the owners.

the last one with the lady standing there (that might be your wife?) would be a good caption contest...what is she thinking?

Why buy a sedan if you can't use it? I see no problem with this use of the M3. In fact, I encourage it. :)

It's just a car. It's supposed to be used, get scratched, have rock chips, haul ass while carrying Xmas tree and your family. Glad that M3 being used like a normal car.
Besides, if you baby the M cars too much, don't rev it, don't drive it, don't drive them on a daily basis, they'll rot. You're supposed to drive them hard on a daily basis, otherwise they'll just become useless like the athlete that don't practice everyday.

@bimmerjay
1. Would Scott really want to scratch his own car?
2. He was decent enough to put a blanket down on the roof first
3. Did Scott have the Play Boy channel on while taking his family around???

@subaru123: I wouldn't put a towel on my M3 for fear of dust trapped in the cloth and sanding the paint.

@e34bmwlover: I drive the heck out of my m3, but I think people need to be a bit less callous to the paint job. I'm afraid Ol' Scott just takes liberties at cars that do not belong to him.

I don't care how many towels he put down. This is just blatant disrespect of a beautiful and focused driving machine. M3's were not made to carry xmas trees on their roofs. The Suburban driver was right and Scott should be banned from the M3 from now on....

You've gotta do what you've gotta do. If it really is a liveable vehicle then it's goingvti have to haul sooner or later. Glad to see a blanket was put down.

I approve.

Besides, who wouldn't do this without putting a blanket down first? Or even two or three blankets? That would just be plain stupid.

And honestly, in the past 10 or so years that I've been cutting down my own trees we have never visibly scratched a car. You just have to be careful and use some common sense and it'll be fine.

To be fair, though, this is coming from someone whose mom put a 5-foot or so tree on the roof of an '97 Mercedes SL320 once. haha

@cr_driver: "Another reason to not buy cars from this people, they just do whatever they want with them LOL....."

haha well if i worked for edmunds i would too lol...

but seriously i would not do this to my M3 if i owned it, what are you nuts?

Makes me want to cry still..... Last years tree on top of the non-blanketed A4 Avant... You guys suck...

There are two reasons there is a tree on the M3:

1. It makes for lots of comments and page views.
2. It’s a rental essentially. Do you really think if Mr. Oldham owned the M3 it would be used like this?

Its why you need to be very wary of buying lease returns.

bimmerjay says: You have a CX-9 and you picked the M3 for tree duty??

Of course, the CX-9 is privately leased by Scott and the M3 is just a beater loaner, that's what loaner car is for, rackless abuse, it is the best!

It looks reasonable to me.

I tied an overstuffed chair into the back of my 350Z this past summer after answering a craigslist ad. I got a lot of weird looks from other drivers but the car was no worse for wear post trip.

I agree with Scott on this topic. Sometime in the past 15 years we over-utilitized our lives (mcmansions, monster SUVs). Making due with less is a virtue.

Don't really understand the problem here. The tree is not going to kill the car. We carried our tree home on the roof of our 07 Rabbit. It was us, and a slew of HUGE SUVs, who still had to tie the tree to the roof. I also applaud the idea that a sedan is all you need for 99% of life, even if you have kids. Our "Need" for huge vehicles is more manufactured than actual.

Using a M3 like a truck is making due with less?

lazyhater: "Using a M3 like a truck is making due with less?"

lol, good point.

I suppose using an M3 like a truck is making due with less space, not less overall excess.

What a complete douche move.

See everyone thinks Scott's kids were trying to use a pun, but really they are just cursed with very thick Jersey accents.

Ever seen a Jetta with plywoods on the roof and bags of cement in the back seat and trunk?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simply-put/396845694/sizes/o/

lol, nice photoshop