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khushy
3,387 posts
88 months
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I have been lucky enough to own 3 x Straight 6 M series cars - 1 x S60 and 2 x S54 - putting around 170,000 miles on them altogether - what an engine - the noise, the power, the fun :-) and (except for the S50) totally bomb-proof!
Shame it wont be NA though!
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AdamLoewy
54 posts
63 months
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The e90 in the vid sounds so much more special than the prototype, I would trade some low-end grunt for a howling top end.
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Mermaid
12,497 posts
40 months
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davepoth said: Not really, especially if you consider that they're attempting to up-sell into China. Since 4 is "one better" than 3 in their model range, it means a 4-series is superior to a 3-series, and therefore more prestigious. For a country that doesn't really "do" coupés at the moment, it's important to explain to them that they are both different, and better.
It also fits with the rest of the range; the 5 series coupé is (more or less) the 6 series, and if they ever did a sports car with engines from the 7 series it would be the 8 series again. I guess the new 1 series will spawn a 2 in due course. 
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mylesmcd
1,169 posts
88 months
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Mermaid said: thats very clever, I wouldn't have thought of that..
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toasty
3,270 posts
89 months
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Mermaid said: davepoth said: Not really, especially if you consider that they're attempting to up-sell into China. Since 4 is "one better" than 3 in their model range, it means a 4-series is superior to a 3-series, and therefore more prestigious. For a country that doesn't really "do" coupés at the moment, it's important to explain to them that they are both different, and better.  4 is considered a very unlucky number in China. I'd imagine they'd have to come up with a different name for the Chinese market.
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Twoshoe
149 posts
53 months
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toasty said: 4 is considered a very unlucky number in China. I'd imagine they'd have to come up with a different name for the Chinese market. True enough - years ago, the Alfa 164 was marketed as the 168 in Hong Kong.
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MSTRBKR
4,917 posts
67 months
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450bhp sounds both optimistic and a bit too much for the M3/M4 position in the BMW range. That's a bit too close to the M5 isn't it? They should keep the 420bhp.
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Crusoe
2,649 posts
100 months
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WorAl said: So there was one generation of the 3 Series with a V8 in it? Such a shame, it's a fantastic sounding engine. (beard mode on) you could have an e46 based V8 too M3 GTR  Plenty of Hartage H50 etc. V8s too (beard mode off)
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AlexiusG55
443 posts
25 months
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j_s14a said: Am I right in thinking that BMW are the only company that currently offers an i6 engined car to the uk market? Volvo do as well.
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st33ly
75 posts
16 months
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Here is an idea. For the UK and European markets keep it as an M3 in both coupe and 4 door gauze and for the chinese market change it to M3 and M4 retrospectively. Oh! Sorry thats a stupid idea. Not as silly as M fecking 4..... what a stupid stupid name. In the pub. Hey mate see you have a new M3.....? Eh sorry mate, Its a M4! Man walks away and mutters ..... Fecking geeky BMW driving baw bag!
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Polarbert
16,884 posts
100 months
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khushy said: I have been lucky to won 3 x Straight 6 M series cars - 1 x S60 and 2 x S54 - putting around 170,000 miles on them altogether - what an engine - the noise, the power, the fun :-) and (except for the S50) totally bomb-proof!
Shame it wont be NA though! You won the cars? Thats awesome.
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ar0u2211
183 posts
67 months
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Polarbert said: You won the cars? Thats awesome. haha! Also M4 - sh*t road to wales, not a bimmer for me
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leeson660
334 posts
34 months
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Straight 6 - thank you BMW big thumbs up from me.
M4 - why oh why?
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E30M3SE
6,681 posts
65 months
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Crusoe said: (beard mode on) you could have an e46 based V8 too M3 GTR Plenty of Hart age H50 etc. V8s too (beard mode off) 
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roadwolf
180 posts
25 months
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Maybe pedantic, but its not a turbocharger if its electrically driven, surely it would be classed as a supercharger.
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NickXX
895 posts
87 months
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V8 FOU said: Electric turbo???
so all those "gain 100bhp" electric blowers on Ebay have been bought by BMW?
I knew I should have bought one... 
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JaguarsportXJR
102 posts
12 months
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roadwolf said: Maybe pedantic, but its not a turbocharger if its electrically driven, surely it would be classed as a supercharger. Technically, a turbo is a kind of supercharger itself, IIRC. You are correct though, unless it's driven by the exhaust it's not a turbocharger as I understand it. More that the name has become a generic term for non-belt driven forced induction I'd say. Oh, almost forgot. Straight six in an M3. Yay! 
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y2blade
46,412 posts
84 months
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V8 FOU said: Electric turbo???
so all those "gain 100bhp" electric blowers on Ebay have been bought by BMW?
I knew I should have bought one...  I thought that too 
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dele
765 posts
63 months
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k15tox said: I would rather have a turbo'd V6 than a turbo'd straight.
At least it would sound a bit more fruity. May I suggest you listen to a new N55 engined 335/135i, fruity indeed!
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Whiters
268 posts
108 months
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M4? BMW, wake up!
The ancestry of the M3 name on a two door saloon/coupe is surely far more important than any internal naming convention you are forcing upon yourselves.
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