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ie: erratic An e-diff should never be on any performance orientated BMW. It's absurd! |
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Totally random question--does anyone know if the Xenons from the E82 are the ones being used in the M235?
I ask because my lights don't seem as bright as other BMW models, just curious if they had been upgraded somehow in the interim.
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05-14-2014, 10:16 AM | #139 | |
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Regardless, I don't expect you to change your opinion but to throw such bunk about Germans not considering it a real M car is very BIG statement. I spent 2 weeks in Germany picking up my 1M. It was the only 1M delivered that day at Welt. One of the German Welt delivery guys that delivers M3s and M5s and M6s all year round ran over from delivering another car in the carousel next door and said...."this is the one I would get.....old school M car" I pressed him saying he was just being polite and he assured me no, this was the car for him, smaller, lighter, more raw than recent ones. Throughout the whole time in Germany and Austria, Germans and Austrians would thumb-up, rubber neck when I drove it into the service station. When I finally made it to ///M in Garching and met some of the M staff, I asked them that same questions because so many of M snobs were saying it was not a real M car because of the engine. They laughed at me and said, NO, this is a real M car and they loved it. I asked if I could pay extra and get a blue 1M and they said, "no. Sorry, the Prince of Munich who races BMWs asked the same question and we had to tell him no. So if we won't do it for the Prince of Munich, we won't do it for you." Then I asked, what did the prince get? He told me he got the exact car I got, a no options white 1M because he is a racer and car guy. So I am not sure how you can make a statement for the millions of M people in Germany that I believe to be grossly innacurate but if that is true, I would love to know. Dackelone lives in Germany and is an forum leader. Dackel is it true that Germans consider the 1M an M-Sport car and not a real ///M car? Last edited by nachob; 05-14-2014 at 11:09 AM.. |
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Just because the 1M used off the shelf parts doesn't mean it is no less special... and lets not get started on it not having a "S" engine vs a "N" engine. Quite the contrary. ///M built one hell of a package, and the people who one one know it. Heck even when a bunch of us Euro 1Addicts get together for a road trip... everyone always looks at the 1M's in our group.
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