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      08-05-2019, 01:56 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by Tacoma View Post
Your point may apply if you're buying the car only for racing in which case there are better, lighter, cars available for that. But if you're in the snow belt and you daily drive your car more times than race it, then your points fall flat.

Also, it's ironic you're raising the weight issue and then your video example is that of an E92 M3 which is a 3700 lb porker. The AWD G8x is going to be 200 lbs lighter than the E92 and (like the current M5) you can switch to 100% RWD with the push of a button. I just don't see the issue here. Flasch is reporting both a pure RWD model and an AWD model that you can toggle to 100% RWD.
Weight is the biggest issue on E92, albeit the car still handles nice due to a relatively lower CoG than straight 6 variants. That particular car had fair amount of weight reduction from titanium exhaust to carbon fiber bucket seats.

F82 M4 was indeed marginally lighter (In reality 30-50kg) than E92, and the then M boss Albert Biermann said the car is exclusively RWD because AWD and lightweight do not go together.
F90 M5 is just 15kg lighter than F10 with 15L less fuel tank capacity which means the car would have been 90kg lighter with RWD, putting into E60 M5 territory.
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