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Originally Posted by thaalrasha
Nice photos, still think M3 wins this time. Too bad it's still M5 heavy without a V8 and Xdrive... and coupled with an engine pumping out lots of Co2 emissions it makes this car 140k € without carbon seats here. It's amazing how backward this car is ... we always had cleaner engines till this gen and M cars striving to be light... now the carbon pieces are mostly for show vs function. I think they obviously are saving the weight saving mesures for a later version...
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This is my biggest gripe: the seemingly lack of weight savings measures on the base car; only to save it for later versions like the CS [and possible CSL]. Instead of giving us a lighter car out of the box, I feel they want to go, "Look at how much weight we saved on this CS model!" just for the headlines.
They added so much optional CF pieces yet they are all cosmetic and not really meant to save weight.