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Originally Posted by shaq diesel
Not even serial numbered... Each cars has the "1 of 200" plague inside. So there are 200 "#1" cars being brought over.
The only saving grace is "if" someone wanted to option that car and order it straight from the catalogue, they'll be saving a few bucks buying the Lime Rock edition. But in reality, how many people would purposely pay more (individual pricing) for Fire Orange? 200? I guess we'll find out...
Seeing as how the body style and engine are both being retired, they could of made some truly collectible cars by offering a "true" special edition M3 that either (or all combined) had a moderate weight reduction, different engine tune (I'm willing to give up the battle for the 4.4L engine since BMW just will not give us their "sweet" engines...), and exhaust. If you knock off the Fire Orange color (say you go with blue...), put an engine tune that bumps it up to say 430- 440 HP and charge that same mark-up that the paint would get those cars would not even sit in the showroom...
All of those things could be done rather easily without having to modify the assembly line or other cost adding measures. But instead, they go and toss all that effort at the 1M, and just decide to add more options that few people bought (either due to their already high mark-up or better aftermarket offerings) to the M3 as its swan song...   |
Yes this right here x2.
BUT I haven't completely lost faith in BMW yet. If you have been following ALMS BMW has claimed their 2x championship winning M3's are "all maxed out" on the rule books. Basically they can't go faster in that chassis while the other teams are "allowed" to make changes to better their developments.
Their alternative? Use the Z4 GT3 and convert it to ALMS specs with the 4.4 liter. The only problem? There has to be a production version. This would be really awesome