History
This is a curated look back, not current inventory. It starts with the shop itself, then moves through the special cars, enthusiast favorites, and project machines that help explain the place.
Shop current inventoryAround the shop
The history starts with the place itself: unusual finds, a small showroom, and a team that still refuses to feel like a generic used car lot.
Our showroom says a lot about the shop: fabulous finds, unique rides, European oddities, and more than a little personality.
We still want people to feel welcome stopping by for a conversation, a look around, or a game of foosball or ping-pong. Motion Imports is not trying to feel like a big-box store. It is a personal, approachable place for people who like interesting machines.
Special cars
Some cars stay with us because they were rare, dramatic, or tied to a story we still talk about years later.
This was the kind of car that becomes family lore: a Hill Country lead, a rough Ferrari, and a father-son trip to see what was really there.
The car had been sitting, the red leather had been damaged, and it barely ran at first. We got it running, started bringing the interior back, and had it headed toward paint before a collector bought it for a full restoration.
A real E30 M3 is not just another old BMW. It is one of those homologation cars that explains why people fall hard for European performance cars.
We remember it as a factory race car turned road car, hand built in Munich and kept with only 90k pampered miles. It belongs near the top of the Motion Imports memory wall.
The Rolls was more than a car on the lot. It was the kind of machine you bring out for parades, special events, and the simple pleasure of arriving properly.
We remember it as smooth, striking, and mechanically excellent, with red leather and a body that still looked the part. It is exactly the kind of past ride that makes the shop history worth showing.
This Karmann Ghia had the right kind of old-car charm: striking looks, car-show history, and enough presence to stop people in their tracks.
We remember it as a former audio show car that had won shows, stayed street legal, and presented with a clean body. It captures the air-cooled side of our taste.
Enthusiast favorites
We have always had a soft spot for cars with personality, especially the ones that make a normal errand feel like a back-road excuse.
A supercharged AMG sedan is a very Motion Imports kind of car: fast, understated, comfortable, and just a little unreasonable in the best way.
This one stayed close to the shop for years, and we remember it as a beast: performance upgrades, paddle shifters, later AMG wheels, and roughly 530 horsepower. It is the European performance lane in one sentence.
The Corvette brings the wild side of the enthusiast section: a six-speed LS6 car with wide-body work, audio, leather, and a serious build list.
We remember it as beautiful and dangerous, with professional performance work and enough upgrades to make it feel more like a transformation than a normal used car.
The 540i M-Sport had the right formula: V8 power, a six-speed manual, M-Sport hardware, and the long-legged feel of a proper sport sedan.
We called it an Autobahn beast, and that still sums up the affordable enthusiast side of Motion Imports: cars with real character that feel usable, personal, and worth talking about.
Projects and oddballs
Not every memorable machine arrives perfect. Some are interesting because they need care, imagination, and the right kind of owner.
The project side of the shop has always had room for cars with collectible bones and a few honest needs.
This 914 was straight, solid, and interesting, with a nice interior and performance carbs in place of the original fuel injection. It was not perfect, but that was the appeal: a real starting point for someone adventurous.
The history page is for memories. Current availability still lives in the inventory page, powered by the Velocity public listing contract.
