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      01-27-2016, 08:28 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Dackelone View Post
Cool video. I wonder why BMW ///M didn't go with cf doors. Seems silly when the rest of the car is cf. Must be something with the rules. ?
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Originally Posted by bradleyland View Post
I'm thinking they were under or close to the weight limit anyway, and went with aluminum because it's much cheaper. The pricing on all the current generation GT3 cars (and by proxy, GTLM/GTD cars) is pretty impressive, considering what you're getting. IIRC, it's less expensive than the Z4 GT3, which, coincidentally, had CF doors.

Maybe I didn't catch it, but did they actually say the doors are aluminium? Because the GT3 is supposed to have carbon doors as you can see:

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