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Originally Posted by duder13
While I certainly prefer the E82, like everyone here, I don't think the M2 had a less singular vision than the 1M...at least until the M2C. The 1M was still kind of a slapped together car at the last minute, and BMW certainly could have improved on it with later variants. I think it would have been awesome if BMW would have made a 1M C, 1M CS, etc.
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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.