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Originally Posted by NewhouseEnt
You can't come up with a $72,000 price tag without having an accurate base.
Other articles have said estimated or had "est" in the column, this article did not.
The online version is lame and doesn't have all the charts and numbers. This was a full blown test.
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You are taking a leap of faith with C/D on this one. Couple of things:
- I could justify a 100,000 dollar price tag on the new M3 and site educated reasons for why that price would be accurate. It still does not make it anything more than an estimate.
- The online version clearly lists an asterisk above each price number they place on the M3. Unless this is supposed to represent "Wow! Great deal!", I can only conclude based upon reasonable expectations that this denotes an estimate (also, and this not a scientific explanation, but this would be the first time in a long while that a car's list price ended in triple zeros).
- This being a "full blown test" has absolutely nothing to do with the validity of its pricing numbers or not. Additionally, at no point in the article does it list specific prices for options or claim that these numbers are completely accurate. Again, maybe the asterisk above the prices denotes something else. I doubt it.
These are still estimates. They could be correct, but they are most likely wrong.