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Originally Posted by champignon
Of course, those rare "slapped together," "Parts Bin" cars that used to be made on occasion are the cars that have kept their value and in some cases, like the 1M, grown in value. They are the cars that collectors lust after. The other such car in my modest stable is a Z3M Coupe, although the less desirable S52 version.
These slapped-together-parts-bin cars benefitted from involvement of the engineers, which was not diluted by the marketing people and the lawyers.
In contrast, the M2, in all its iterations, is a marketing-dept driven vehicle.
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My point is that the strength of the 1M is the underlying E82 it was built on vs. the M2's F22, not because of a two-week development time. The 1M became an immediate collector car, because it was good and they made so few. Had BMW made 40K of them, like the E92 M3, the 1M's value would be much different today.
The Z3M S52 is the first BMW I ever drove. My uncle bought it new and still has it.
