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Originally Posted by MalibuBimmer
When I buy an M car I'm not interested in "exclusivity" (which I read to mean to impress others). I'm interested in a well balanced, quick sports car. If BMW wants to festoon the "M" on lesser cars, I don't care. If other drivers who buy these cars want to feel that they have M-light cars, why should that concern me?
My purchase is for my driving satisfaction, not to impress others.
(The same is true with the AMG GT I bought to replace my i8. Mercedes slaps a lot of big engines in unbalanced cars and calls them AMG models. I am interested in a well-balanced sports car, and the AMG GT, which was designed entirely by AMG, is just that.)
So as long as BMW makes well balanced M cars I don't care that it slaps the "M" on its non-M models. It does that to stay alive. Which means the M division will remain alive, too.
For those of you who want to impress others with your car purchase, well there is always Lamborghini.
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The GT reminds me "slightly" of the original production Viper, with how it's proportioned.
Reading your last statement about the Lambo reminds me of something I heard long ago.....
What do you say when you see someone with a Ferrari... "so you couldn't afford a Lamborghini huh?"