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Originally Posted by solstice
Numbers are tricky to compare though as we know, they depend on your market, your options, your model year etc.
More important is how the car carry the weight, how it can be felt. The E30 to E36 was very noticeable, more so than any other generational change.
For the G8X we don't know how an equally equipped F8X feel or what the scales will show. Maybe it's not even noticeable and maybe it is. At minimum way too early to judge as harshly as being done in this thread IMO.
And as one of the mods commented, the G8X does have at least one unique factory options to lower the weight in the CF bucket seats.
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Someone less lazy than I should compile power to weight ratio changes from generation to generation. True, the F80 was an anomaly, it went down in weight and went up in power (and improved dramatically in the power delivery band). But each generation had significant power gains to make up for the weight gain. The G80 gained 3-500 lbs for 30hp over the F8X CS.
Edit - found this article.
https://www.redline360.com/garage/bm...ate-comparison
The G80 Non-comp weighs 4102lbs and has 480hp. That's 8.56 lb/hp. The F80 had 8.2 lbs/hp!
The G80 is the only one that has less hp per pound than the previous generation! Wow! I honestly thought it was just not going to be as big an improvement as the others, not a downgrade.