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      07-12-2012, 03:12 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by B-Dawg View Post
It gets a bit worse for diluting the //M brand:

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/...c_first_drive/
Hey, it looks pretty good to me -- quoting from the conclusion:

"And yet, because this is M-lite and avoids M-car extravagances (no carbon roof, no sheetmetal mods, no M diff, no DCT), it's a bargain. In Europe the price is just three-fourths of what BMW asked for the old 1 Series M.

We ended the day wondering about the M Performance mission. The company says it's about being partway to an M, but to us it was a whole lot better than that. It's nothing like the complicated but disconcertingly opaque new M6. Instead it recalls the sharp, simple, transparently joyful M cars of old."
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