Love your page !
Dont even know some of the things about the car
Thank you !
Hy Leo!
Cool your site csl! lovely car, best car!
congratulations. long life.
Peace.
Nice page
Regards
Robert
M3 CSL owner
Hi Leo, really nice CSL and great pictures.
Hi from the USA from a fellow M3 enthusiast. I heard you have a good instructional on launch control. Looking for it.
Webmaster: You'll have more luck on my other site www.Leo.Nutz.de -> BMW
Some Good Information.
Hallo Leo, Toller Wagen, und eine schöne Farbe. Die CSL, die ich bisher sah waren alle in Silber..Viel Spaß beim fahren, und lasse ihn Bitte Ganz!! Viele Grüße aus Baden-Württemberg. PS: M3e46Coupe > M3e46CSL > and now M3e46Convertible! Please no(e92/93)that is a sumofighter.
Hallo Leo ,
Very nice site!
Ich bin Mario aus Belgien und der Suche nach einem M3 CSL mit guten Geschichte.
Kannst du mir auch sagen, wie Ihre Erfahrungen mit dem Anbieter:
Matthias Unger
MATTHIAS UNGER GMBH
AUTOMOBILHANDEL
Hohebergstr. 41
63150 Heusenstamm
Haben Sie vielleicht etwas ein interessantes CSL für meinen Stand haben?
Sorry für mein schlechtes Deutsch.
Vielen Dank
MMario
Very impressive. Thanks for all you have done. A fine piece of work. I have a 2004 M3 Carbon Black, SMG with 20K miles on.
Best of luck,
Ermanno Antoniopaolo Bruno
Nice website!!
Maybe you want to use a photoshoot from me in the gallery??
http://marknauta.nl/bmwm3csl.php
Let me know.
Keep up the good work!!
very good site. i got my m3csl early this year. had to wait for a 2nd as brand new was very expensive. double what i paid. i would take friends for ride - the would go "ooohh ahhhh". then i switch on msport, and that is when they said "omg". easily one of the top 3 best sounding car ever!
btw how many rhd & lhd in rare black color? u lucky dude!
Greetings, from a fellow M3 owner
. I just wanted to drop you a quick line and say that you have an absolutely gorgeous machine there!
Hi there
My compliments to this absolutely GREAT site! A really great piece of work, design and know-how. Thank you for your engagement!
Greetings from Switzerland,
Houbi330Ci
HOLA MI NOMBRE ES MARCOS GONZALEZ
SOY DE MEXICO
LA VERDAD ESCRIBO PARA DECIRTE QUE TIENES UN AUTO
EXCEPCIONAL. YO ESTOY ESTUDIANDO INGENIERIA ROBOTICA
Y EL M3 CSL ES EL AUTO QUE QUIERO EN MI GARAGE CUANDO
ME GRADUE.
SALUDOS
Great CSL site!! Just got my CSL, one of 23 ever imported into Australia lately... and I am loving it!
Thank you for gathering all the information, your site helped me a lot when I was searching for specs of the CSL!
I would love to hear from you as well if you can reply back
Thanx Leo!
cheers,
Richie
Hi~ Nice to see you^^
I have BMW M3 CSL also!
I think you have great imformation about our baby^^
Thanks for your works and I want to exchange information about CSL.
Thanks mate!
great site! my car is a '02 BMW M3 SMGII Laguna Seca Blau with approx. 88,000 miles (hey, i LOVE driving it!). i've owned my "M Bebe" 2 yrs; bought it w/ approx. 45k miles; used my retirement pension; i am age 65.
Un grand merci pour ce site de grande qualité. Je suis à la recherche d'une M3 E46 et c'est en surfant que j'ai trouvé votre site. Toutes mes félicitations!
I have own the following cars
1987 318is
1990 M3
1995 M3
2003 M3
And now 2005 M3 ZCP
Echt coole Seite und ein noch viel besseres Auto! Hab echt ewigkeiten gegoogelt bis ich deine Seite gefunden hab. Aber es hat sich gelohnt.
Hätt auch gern einen CSL, bist echt beneidenswert.
Aber was ja nicht is kann ja noch werden...
Grüße Con
Very nice site m8.
Danke, tolle Seite. Ich bin selber auch CSL Owner (schwarz). Habe den neuen M3 gefahren und war enttäuscht, andere von Euch auch?
Grüsse aus der Schweiz
WOW!!! Love the CSL dude, I'm the proud owner of a Laguna Seca 2003 E46 M3 and I love it...but I know the time will come to purchase the ultimate...the CSL, DEFINATELY gotta get one eventually. Look after her mate. Rob.
Tolle Hommage an den CSL diese Seite. Mal wieder ein paar aktuelle Bilder wären toll! Weiter so!
Hi there! Man, I love your CSL! Sure wish they had that here in the states! Good luck to you and enjoy this fantastic car!
Hallo.
Schöne Hompage!
Fahre selber auch einen CSL.Schade nur das hier alles auf englisch ist?
Kann man das irgendwo umstellen auf Deutsch?
SO THEY OFFER 100,000$ FOR THIS CAR..
I'm not sure this price is reasonable..I love this car
,but not as much as cost unreasonable price...
Leo! If U know about price of used e46 CSL..answer me ..e-mail'll be good or anything...please..
TAKE CARE..Have nice day!
Hi!! LEO..NICE TO MEET U!
This id just what i wanted to find...I've found info about E49 CSL..
But there's only few of the things in the web. Fortunately Today I found this site..Good..and..I am now on the buying THE CSL in here Korea which has just four of it..I have a question to U..
The car that on the contract is 03 CSL(maybe OCTOBER PRODUCT)..
SPEC: SPEED LIMIT OFF(FROM FACTORY)
MILEAGE IS ABOUT 28000KM
BREMBO GRAN KIT(owner said that originally have from
factory)
Hallo Leo,
habe deine mail heute erhalten und bin nach wie vor gerne Besucher deiner Homepage !
Wie kann man die Carbon-Flaps am Frontspoiler gegen Seinschlag schützen bzw. aufarbeiten, dass sie wieder gut aussehen ?
Gruß Rudi
Hi Leo,
Very nice and intereesting site you have here !!
My CSL is from 07/2003, imported from Germany four months ago. Silbergrau, Airco, PDC, Xenons, CD Business, Vmax removed, athermic windshield.
I have some scans of an intern document with the sale arguments for a CSL. 16 color pages, I would be glad to send you theses.
Regards from Brussels.
PS I know at least 6 CSL in Belgium wink
Nice site Leo. How is the race car project progressing?
Hi Leo
Great Site, I havent came across a more informative and dedicated m3 CSL site. Its fantastic and thank you so much for your effort.
Having just bought a CSL myself I am still testing out its potential but I'm so amazed by its handling charactersticand its willingness to turn into corner.
Just want to let you know the number of CSL in HK, I know BMW HK officially imported 6 CSL and all were sold before they were landed and all came with Air-con (a must in HK), PDC (again a must consider the tight car parks we have here), CD player and head lamp washer. All 6 are silver grey and they cost 120,000 Euro back then!!!! (yes 120,000 Euro incl gov't registration tax)
There are also another 3-4 private imports (probably from UK or Japan) but I am not sure about the spec.
Cheers
hi leo - nice car, nice site.
just one correction - the recall you refer to number 611103 referring to the recode the light switch centre - this applies only to convertible cars built march to july 2003. never seen a convertible csl and all csl's built after july 03 i think! i found this out by asking the dealer i am about to buy my csl from if they'd done that recall - much to my embarrasment!!!
cheers from sunny london
tim
When I bought mine in France (left-hand drive) I was told by the dealer that 60 were allocated to France, not 6 as you say. I would consider this source reliable.
Someone already asked how do you know your cars' production number?
Would you have the torque/power/revs graph available by any chance? If you do please put it on your site. It would make an interesting comparaison with other engines.
Great site! Thank you.
wow wunderschöne Seite und noch schöneres Auto.
Was würd ich für so ein Teil geben^^
du hast es gut.
grüße
Giovanni
FANTASTIC YOUR M3 CSL ....
Great site you've got here, thanks for alot of useful information.
One question, how did you get the actual Build No of the car. I asked BMW UK and when they looked into it, all they could tell me was that it was built in week 49/2003 making it number 390-411 or something. You any idea how I can get this number?
Hi Leo,
thanks for all the details of the CSL. I purchased a used one in May 2005 and visited often the tracks in Germany (Hockenheim, Sachsenring and Nordschleife) as well as in France and Netherlands. The highest is to change the Cup-tires against the Slicks ! With that you can compensate 100 HP and more - M5-V10 and M6-V10 have no chance. The next modification was a bigger break from DS on the front axle (380 mm, 8 pistons) - terrible expensive but it works ! All other components are origin.
What about tzhe difference in the production numbers of the CSL ? Built 1389 but only 1095 listed in your country-list - how that ?
Do you know about the CSL-driver-training of the M-Drivers-Club on the Nordschleife ? Maybe see you some time ! Regards Rudi
I'm so glad I found this site! Thanks for the most enlightening site about the CSL I've found thus far, and for sharing the pictures and information with us who can't really afford one!
Now i'm gonna go sell my soul to get one!
Keep up the good work! Dave
Hey Leo
Tom here. Good to see my DIY posted up. Just to correct John below, New Zealand was allocated 10 CSLs officially back in late 2003 - all were sold pretty much straight away (initial allocation was 6 but that was increased to 10 due to demand.) One of the last ones to arrive unfortunately wasn't picked up and ended up sitting in a showroom for a good 3 months+ before it was sold. I am aware of 2 other private imports into the country - one from South Africa and another from Germany through BMW NZ directly - this latter one is the one on www.trademe.co.nz at the moment. It was a BMW Driver Training car that was crashed by an instructor who used it outside driver training - no prizes here for what happened to the instructor shortly after he crashed the CSL.
PS - Great website - I frequent roadfly.com quite often under "NZ_M3"
Hi Leo,
very excited, just picked uo my black m3 csl. I have a lot of fun ahead of me. I have learnt that there are 12 M3 csls in New Zealand, and two have been crashed. Look at www.trademe.co.nz under csl and see one of the damaged ones for sale. [sept 2006] Fantastic site, will spend some time now and take it all in, Cheers John.
Hi Leo,
I hope you've enjoyed staying at the race track for the last couple of days.
Unfirtunately I've got the accident (nothing major) on the ring and curretnly BMW is on repair. It will take couple of weeks to fix the car, and after that I'll be back to normal.
In the meantime, please add me to your memeber list if possible so I can participate at the forum.
Once again it was pleasure seeing you in Germany.
Take care.
Regards,
Michael
Hey Leo!
You posted a pic of your friends CSL on m3forum.net and I was just wondering if you had this pic high res? If you do, could you be so kind and email it to me at zlaatan82@hotmail.com?
Thanks
Link to picture, post nr.13
http://www.m3forum.net/m3forum/showthread.php?t=116617&page=2
cool car i have a siver gray csl and loving every day with it.
cool site keep up the good work
Thx Leo for a beautiful site, and for your faq! It was very interesting to surf on your site. I wish all M3 \ M3 CSL fans could be like you...
hi there, nice site, great car
please do me a favour :s dont hurt her - of the 65 imported to my country only about 40 odd are still on the road // in fact there is only one for sale at this time http://search.autotrader.co.za/www/cars_advert?country=ZA&sort=5¤cy=ZAR&modelexact=1&make=BMW&model=M3&min_pr=450000&max_pr=&x=46&y=10&id=200627183325923#
to give you an idea of the price
R500k = $75000 or 42000 pounds>> its sad to hear they never made it to the us :s - with all thise V8 and V6 monsters i thought a CSL would be more EC friendly
anywho - cheers and have a great time with her
dave (za)
Tis the sweetest car ever
That engine bay shot is amazing.
Leo: Great car and beautiful scenery! M3's just look so right in the Austrian country side. Enjoy your CSL. Ciao........Dino
Hi Leo
Congratulations on a superb example csl.I too have one,mine is finished in grey and is virtually the same spec as yours.Ive been toying with the idea of a track day,would you recomend splashing out on a set of cup tyres? Like yourself i traded a standard m3 for the csl,i often say driving the csl in normal trim is like the m3 in sport mode, but then you still have the sport button for that extra special kick.Great site will visit again cheers.
Mein name ist Alfons Smolders und ich komme aus den Niederlande.Mein erste bmw ist ein m3 e30.Der ist jetzt im restauration. Mein zweite bmw m3 e36 .Dieser hatte ich eingetauscht gegen m3 1997 smg.Nachher hatte ich dieser eingetauscht gegen m3 e46 Undfor 2 woche habe ich mein m3 eingetauscht gegen m3CSL Hiermit ist mein traum wirklichkeit geworden.Ich gehe gerne nach Nordschleife touristfahren.Super auto,ein gross Unterschied mit der normale m3.Viel Gruss Alfons Smolders
Hey Leo,
schöne Seite hast du dir hier eingerichtet, mach weiter so
Hatten uns ja am Sonntag am Nürburgring gegen 18.30 Uhr kennengelernt bei dem kleinen Zwischenfall am Schwalbenschwanz.
Vielleicht sieht man sich ja wieder bei ner schöneren Gelegenheit
Grüss aus Luxemburg
Luc, mit dem blauen M3
Love your car man, Thanks for sharing.
-Jack
nice site, nice car
Thanks for recommending this site to me - its great! CSL's ROCK
!! Have registered and look forward to contributing to your site!Lesa
x
Great site & well done on your success at last years BMW event.
Leo,
I've forgotten to sign in my previous visits. Your beautiful site fills an important knowledge gap about this wonderful car for the many enthusiasts out there who want to know more. Well done and look forward to more and unique information (like the production numbers) in the future.
Best Regards,
Dodo
Great Work! Really Inspired me!
May I asked for your contacting email address?
I am looking for advises on getting one! Thank you so much in advance.
Once again you've put together an amazing site!
Beautiful car !!!! is all I can say
Well done
Some of the best pictures I've seen of the CSL...makes me want one even more...
Hi Leo,
Congratulations with your CSL. It's a beautiful car. I see you get to use it for some more committed and secure driving on track. Ever considered Spa Francorchamps? Myself I recently upgraded as well by replacing my 996 Carrera for a 996 Turbo: a true Autobahn missile!
Ciao,
Very nice site keep it up and enjoy the baby
Really cool site !
CSL forever !
Wonderful site!
I am a fellow CSL driver and loving every mile in it!
Hi Leo
congrats to your CSL communitiy. It´s a pleasure for me to be there.
Best regards
Sascha
Hi Leo,
Great site, great car !
See you soon my old friend
Cheers
Doc
Leo,
Great site for a great car. Wish we had them here in the US.
It seems as though BMW is selling some parts without the VIN. I just bought the CSL swaybars for my M3. The front is tubular instead of solid, so it's lighter and thicker. The parts guy checked on the shocks for instance and he could not order them, but he knew he could order the swaybars. I haven't attempted to order anything else.
Enjoy your car,
Steve
Very nice site my friend. Well done!! Keep up the good work and I wish u lived in the states!!!!
Scott
Hey Leo,
congrats to your new webpage!
Hard work and sleepless nights finally found their end and your wonderful page is online
.Hope to see you soon again to take some more pictures of the CSL´s natural habitat - the mountains of tyrol
Keep up the good work and greetings from Austria,
Stefan
Glad to see your site finished. The CSL is looking great!
Hello guest,
Today I finally put the new csl page online
I hope you enjoy the site and find it informative and entertaining aswell.
///Leo