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11-05-2013, 07:30 PM | #201 |
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M135i & M235i are for non car enthusiast who wants an M badge.
1M, M3/M4 are for car enthusiast who wants the M experience. Nothing wrong with multiple lines of product targeting different groups of customers. I don't feel that the M badge is diluted in anyway. An M car still drives like an M car and giving the driver all the thrills is all it matters. |
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11-05-2013, 07:43 PM | #202 |
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So those who can't afford a M are not enthusiasts? FML!
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11-05-2013, 08:27 PM | #203 |
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You simple peon!
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11-05-2013, 08:55 PM | #204 |
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Had two days in an Audi R8 (V8) couldn't wait to get back into my 135i/Cayman S. AWD is like the kiss of death for a performance car. A well kept secondhand Cayman/Boxter S with a few tasteful mods is the way to go. Sorry off topic.
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11-05-2013, 08:59 PM | #205 |
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So lets say I take an i-series car and retrofit every single M component onto it from the M version (ala 135 / 1M), what would that make the car?
Tii? FrankensteiM? |
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11-05-2013, 10:24 PM | #212 | |
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There are more enthusiasts in this forum alone who do not own M cars than there are M owners. Owning an M car does not make us car enthusiasts per se. |
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That was another thing. The later ones were fixed, but earlier models were recalled from what I was told... Except not everyone bothered to take them back for BMW to do the inspections/rectification work!
I found 1 diamond in the rough so to speak in 4 months. But at the end a PPI showed some issues so I turned my attention to the 135. |
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1. 1M is not a 135i with M3 gears and do the maths to see how much money you have to folk out for the 135 I to look and drive like a 1M 2. Resale...how do you recoup all the mods money when the car is up for sale |
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Also what I stated is from a marketing point of view to create product niche. Of course everyone knows there are performance oriented owners out there apart from the M owners. |
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What do I know I am not an enthusiast
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Ya think? There's only 3 RSs left on carsales (there were 6 or 7 at one point), the ones that have sold seemed to not drop at all over the past months (I have been watching for about the past year). They are +$250k, the GT3s are coming down however.
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A chap in an M car is not, mostly it is stock and they will never mod or change anything as they think it is perfect as it is, and paranoid about WARRANTY. There is the exception thank god. |
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