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Originally Posted by Transfer
Well when I see a car with no gas in the tank and the $8k fancy carbon ceramic brakes and it still weighs 3560 lbs I'm a bit perturbed. Add fuel and change to steel brakes and we're talking 3710 or more. Yeah I'm splitting 150 lb hairs here but if the M3 at EAS weighed 3560 with full gas tank and steel brakes then I would see that the spec'd weights match. But that's not the case. 150 lbs means something to me because that much weight is very hard to shed. What happened to the weight savings over the E9x? BMW billed the F8x as being ~200 lbs lighter. I'm not seeing that. I'm sure new car goggles look past things like this, but these cars are still quite heavy.
So, when the M2 spec is announced and they say it is 3100 lbs DIN/EU (ha!) and 3300 lbs US spec (also ha!), I'm already expecting the reality to be significantly off from the specs. Sorry to bring the M2 into this. I realize it isn't relevant to this thread, so carry on.
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EAS weighed a DCT car with steel brakes at 3,579 with 1/2 tank of gas. Where the hell are you getting 3,700 other than in make believe land?
BMW quoted 3,585 which is pretty much dead on.
If you don't like the weight of the car, that's fine then buy something else. There is no BMW conspiracy here... only people misinterpreting and misreading measurements that are done differently in different markets. But wait... BMW says 3,585 and EAS get 3,579... you are right! Misleading!
