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Originally Posted by NFIDDY5
The M-Division spares no expense. I doubt they cut any corners on the 1M....
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I wouldn't go out that far. Of course they are cost conscious, not so much the engineers but the accounting beancounters that overlook them, so there is no such thing as no expenses spared, not in this environment.
As far as cutting corners on the 1M, they did so, plenty of them in fact. But I don't mean it in a bad way, they optimized given the many timing and budgetary constraints set before them. If they had more than 18 months of development time, coupled with a longer production run than just 10 months, you would have seen a very different 1 ///M IMO (in terms of available motor, tranny options, colors, use of lightweight materials such as CF roof, etc. etc.) The car would have been developed like every other ///M car - from the ground up. But once again, I think they did a great job considering the hand they were dealt.
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