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Originally Posted by TiMSport
I guess it's not, perhaps an exaggeration. But still, a non M car versus the real deal, but from a performance perspective I think it's still impressive.
Yeah, I didn't really need an ultra stiff suspension setup, have had plenty of those.
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Impressive but nothing new; they did the same thing in 2007 with the 335i. It wasn't an M-anything yet was almost significantly faster (outside of a racetrack) than the 2006 M3. My point is that M Performance models are only new in terms of the name, not in terms of the comparative performance.
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Originally Posted by Edmunds
This 2007 BMW 335i test car blazed from zero to 60 in 4.8 seconds. BMW says the new coupe mit twin-turbo engine and Steptronic six-speed autobox should make that trip in 5.5 seconds. Seven-tenths of a second quicker? That's 13-percent better than BMW's claim. Folks give aftermarket tuners wads of cash for that kind of performance bump, especially when a car starts out in the mid 5s to begin with.
Our 335i similarly scalded the quarter-mile in 13.3 seconds at 105.9 mph. For comparison, our 2005 M3 Competition Package used up 5.5 seconds getting to 60 and finished the quarter-mile in 13.7 seconds at 105.4 mph
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https://www.edmunds.com/bmw/3-series...oad-test2.html