﻿{"id":554,"date":"2010-06-05T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2010-06-11T21:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T03:22:12","slug":"more-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/more-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"More New Features: Market Research and Find Coupe Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve been working on a couple more new features for the site.<\/p>\n<h3>Market Research<\/h3>\n<p>This was a feature that was immediately suggested when I first posted the sale listings. I think it is a great idea and will be really cool to see as time goes on and it matures. What I&#8217;m trying to do is provide some useful stats for BMW M Coupe  shoppers and fanatics based on my <a title=\"M Coupe Sale Listings\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sale Listings<\/a> database. As times goes on, this data should get  increasingly interesting and useful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very open to ideas of cools  ways to display the data I&#8217;ve  collected so far. I think I&#8217;m only at the tip of the iceberg as far as what I can do with this, but the first couple things I have attempted are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/research\/trends.aspx\">Sales  Trends<\/a><br \/>\nCharts number of M Coupes for sale and sold over time<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/research\/pricetrends.aspx\">Price  Trends<\/a><br \/>\nCharts averate asking price of M Coupes over time<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/research\/prices.aspx\">Price  vs. Mileage Charts<\/a><br \/>\nScatter plot of both currently listed coupes and recently sold coupes  with simple trendlines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think the most useful data in the database is the sale prices of coupes. Aside from Ebay auctions, these are hard to come by unless they are volunteered. Please contact me through my site if you&#8217;re willing to contribute the price you recently paid for your  coupe. More data is better data.<\/p>\n<h3>Find Coupe Stuff<\/h3>\n<p>As with any coupe lover, I don&#8217;t just love coupes, I like everything to do with coupes. Like many, I regularly watch Ebay and Craiglist for &#8220;Coupe Stuff&#8221; like scale models, brochures, magazines featuring the coupe, etc. Ebay recently added some ways to embed searches, so I&#8217;ve embedded some of my favorites as well as some popular parts and accessories for current or soon-to-be coupe owners. If you have ideas of other searches you think would be handy, let me know. So far I&#8217;ve setup:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"M Coupes\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/cars\/\">Cars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Parts &amp; Accessories\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/\">Parts  &amp; Accessories<\/a>\n<ul style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<li><a title=\"Glovebox Fix\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/glovebox\/\">Glovebox  Fix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Aftermarket Headlights\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/headlights\/\">Aftermarket  Headlights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Clear or Smoked Corner Lights\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/cornerlights\/\">Clear  or Smoked Corner\/Bumper Lights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Springs and Coilovers\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/springs\/\">Springs  &amp; Coilovers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Wheel Spacers\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/spacers\/\">Wheel  Spacers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Car Covers\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/covers\/\">Car  Covers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"LeatherZ Accessories\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/leatherz\/\">LeatherZ  Accessories<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Aftermarket Pedals\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/pedals\/\">Aftermarket  Pedals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Grilles\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/parts\/grilles\/\">Grilles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Repair Manuals\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/repair-manuals\/\">Repair  Manuals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"M Coupe Scale Models\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/models\/\">Scale  Models<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"M Coupe Magazines and Brochures\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/magazines\/\">Magazines  &amp; Brochures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"BMW M Apparel &amp; Merchandise\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/apparel-merchandise\/\">BMW  M Apparel &amp; Merchandise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"BMW &amp; M Banners\/Flags\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/find-coupe-stuff\/bannersflags\/\">BMW  &amp; M Banners\/Flags<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve been working on a couple more new features for the site: Market Research and Find Coupe Stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mcoupebuyersguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}