Monday 1st October 2001

M3 GTR

Hot new V8 M3 to cost over £150,000!

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[donteatpeople]

that car is **** hot, shame they couldnt paint the roof

[RichB]

Do these pictures look like toy cars on a play-room floor to anyone else is it just me

[smeagol]

I thought they were from Cambells Collection.

[Captain Chaos]

I thought they were out of a packet of Cornflakes

[apache]

look great with a max power sun visor, is it me or do the latest BMW headlights look like glowering eyes, all the better for looking intimidating in your rear view mirror Edited by apache on Monday 1st October 14:32

[phil hill]

Must be the camera angle or something, but looks a bit like a kitted-up Rover 220 "Tomcat" to me........ especially with the black roof.

[Fatboy]

See what you mean Phil Hill - knew there was something not quite right about it.

[Alex]

155 grand! They taking the piston!

[Adam2B]

Can only be, I thought they said £155k as well . Remind me how much I need for an Aston Vanquish again?

[mgv8]

155K will you will have to be a top rep to make the payments?

[Nick M (nmilton)]

"...the rear spoiler as well as the front and rear aprons are made of carbon fibre reinforced plastic..." Err, so that would be a cheap bit of GRP with one layer of carbon fibre on top to make it look like proper carbon ?? Or am I being too skeptical again ??

[Captain Chaos]

Frankly, BMW's are (if they are newer) for pushy execs who drive irresponsibly and (if older models) for guys with baseball caps who play their music so loud that they should wear earplugs to avoid permanently deafening themselves - but of course they don't. Wear earplugs, that is. You can keep your Bosch appliances, thankyou

[campbell]

If I had £155 grand I would put a AJP8 engine into a Griff, tuned up to 500BHP and a proper carbon fiber and kevlar boady with 18"*9" wheels and bucket seats and stick two fingers in the air to BmW's pimp mobell. It still weights to much for all that fake carbon fider and only 350horses from a 4.0L V8 which had 450, prity poor for Mtec me thinks When you think the standard 3.2L straight 6 has about 335BHP I bet this car was thought about by a chave wharing a bass ball cap thought of puting this car together, well some sad toccer will by it

[Saturn 5]

Surely a person who is willing to spend 155K on a car would be better to stretch a litte bit further and get a speed 12?