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Originally Posted by Bimmer-Bob
I'll be the first to admit that attempting to replicate a 1M by tuning a 135i is a wasted effort, but still, there is a level of ///M-worship on these boards that sometimes escalates to nauseating levels. Phrases like "greater than the sum of its parts" imply some sort of voodoo taking place at the ///M division, the result of which is the intangible yet extremely potent ///M-ness, to which we all must kneel. The reality is that suspension tuning is science, and the 1M, like all vehicles, is actually EXACTLY the sum of its parts. What else could it possibly be?
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I agree 100%, but sometimes the M-worship is baited by comments claiming that you can replicate a factory performance car with a handful of parts and a weekend install. That's just absurd.
I'm not suggesting we worship M. Just as you said, handling is science, so anyone with the time and budget can do it. M cars get science poured all over them. The tuning of a 1M is the result of hundreds of hours of testing and tuning, not to mention the benefit of the cooperative experience of everyone working on the car. I suspect that when people say things like "greater than the sum of its parts", they're really talking about these things.