Unofficial Weight

[BForbes]

Originally Posted by lanman

Just read through this thread...I went from a 2003 S2000 to my current M3. I loved my S2000, quite possibly my favorite car i've ever owned. I have considered more than once to buy another one. Problem is the space and practicality...I think the 135 will be a great balance of room to stretch and awesome driving dynamics.

Thats the typical trend. S2k's to BMW's. Hopefully, when Honda decides to build a next generation S2000 I'll be in a position to have my 135i as DD and an AP3 as a toy.

[EmUc]

Hard to believe this little car may be almost as heavy as an E46 M3 . Great car nonetheless, can't wait to see and drive it.

[Wiggum]

Originally Posted by onehots2k

Thats the typical trend. S2k's to BMW's. Hopefully, when Honda decides to build a next generation S2000 I'll be in a position to have my 135i as DD and an AP3 as a toy.

Wishful thinking, when I was looking for my next car I spoke with some Japanese engineers from Honda, I don't think you are going to like what you see...

[BForbes]

Originally Posted by Wiggum

Wishful thinking, when I was looking for my next car I spoke with some Japanese engineers from Honda, I don't think you are going to like what you see...

Hmm....Enlighten me?

[aesthetect]

Originally Posted by onehots2k

Oh we had a few bad seeds, they'll pop in to ruin the moment just for fun but they've been gone for a while :headbang:

hahaha.. haters

[rimmer]

Originally Posted by replicat

Glad we got that all squared away. But all in all 3300 lbs better be a maxed out curb weight and I will be happy...

PS. This forum is so grown up, no flaming or anything. Good to see that we're all a bunch of happy campers..great discussions ladies and gents.

-Pete

[lanman]

I saw a rendering of the replacement for the S2k...not good! I hope they do a lot of focus groups and the people they select tell them how ugly it is

[rossii]

Did some digging around I found some specs and interesting comparisons for power/weight ratio. It looks like the magic number is 3440 lbs for the 135.

[hoefx]

Rossi-
Cool info. What website is that?

[Nixon]

Rossii, I don't think your source gets us any closer to knowing what the US official spec curb weight will be. The 1560.4 kg/3440 lb weight quoted by that magazine echos the german EU1 weight that we already know adds weight for driver and cargo.

I think the mag just lifted the weight from the German specs and didn't bother to make the adjustments that eMINI made. I think we're back around to eMINI's math again of 3283 lbs for the 135i.


For grins I applied eMINI's formula to the 123d's published German EU1 weight of 1495 kg:
1495 + 4 kg (to top off fuel tank) - 75 kg (for driver/cargo) = 1424 kg = 3139.4 lbs (using the conversion rate of 1 kilogram = 2.204622622 lbs)

From eMINI's post earlier in this thread --

Originally Posted by eMINI

1560 kg = 3439 lb - 150 = 3289 lb

Or 1560 + 4 kg (to top off fuel tank) - 75 kg (for driver/cargo) = 1489 kg = 3283 lb

So, if we call it 3300 lb curb weight we won't be far off. Of course we still won't know how the sample car was equipped vs. stripped. But it gets us in the ball park.

BTW, a quick conversation with my dealer today confirmed something we'd all been thinking and that's that BMW goes to more trouble and expense to remove weight from the larger, more up-market cars than the smaller, more entry-level cars. That's why a 5 is barely heavier than a 3, and a 3 is barely heavier than a 1. It is what it is.

[kindtree]

Originally Posted by replicat

PS. This forum is so grown up, no flaming or anything. Good to see that we're all a bunch of happy campers..great discussions ladies and gents.

-Pete

Yeah it's really pleasant to get away from the bf.c flamefest for a while, but then again, that forum is so worth it.

[eMINI]

Originally Posted by kindtree

Yeah it's really pleasant to get away from the bf.c flamefest for a while, but then again, that forum is so worth it.

NAM?