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first let me say that i was praying for the 260 hp 3.0ltr and thats what i would have bought for sure for all the reasons that people mentioned, but that said, i have to defend bmw on the hp disparity between the 2 offerings(300 vs. 230 seems about right to me). what i would have hoped for then is that they had not detuned the low-end torque out of the n52 and given us 230/230(instead of 215/230) as the base engine. this would have satisfied the necessary hp disparity for marketing purposes but still have given us a almost the same performance as the 230/260 mill. put another way; it's the 85 extra ft-lbs. of the n54 that make it so hard to resist over what they gave us in the 128.
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