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Cars: 2008 BMW M3 Finally Almost Here, But Poorly Received by
Odd Group of Enthusiasts
By Andrey Rudnitsky
July 30, 2007
The BMW M3 has got to be the best all around sports car out there.
You can drive it to the office in the day time. During the evening,
you can take your lovely lady to dinner. Then when the weekend
comes around you can meet with your enthusiast buddies and talk
about the above average performance stats your M3 has. After you’ve
done all of the above, you can push it to the limits on a track
or take it to the Tail of the Dragon and hang with the best of
them.
As time goes by the M3 gets better and better. My favorite so
far is the E-46 body style which
lasted from 1999 through 2005. But it’s only my favorite
because the new body style M3 has not come out yet. Anyways, with
the M3 you have everything that you would ever need in an automobile.
It’s luxurious, it’s sexy, it’s comfortable,
but – most importantly – it’s fast.
The United State’s version of the E-46
M3’s engine was a 3.2 litre inline-6 that produced 333
horsepower. Before that we had the E-36 M3 which started out with
a 3.0 litre inline-6 engine that produced around 240 horsepower.
And before that we had the E-30 M3 with a measly 2.5 litre 4 cylinder
engine. You can see where I’m going with this.
If a new M3 model is coming out, it is destined to be better
than its predecessor. So why are there people out there who are
complaining about the new M3? Yes, that’s right, people
are complaining about it and the worst part is that these people
happen to be M3 enthusiasts.
Some M3 enthusiasts out there are complaining about the fact
that the new M3 will have a V-8 instead of the I-6. If anything,
they should be pushing for a 1001 horsepower W-16 in the M3. This
is a crazy world we are living in.
Here’s a better way of illustrating this dilemma. It’s
like declining to accept a raise in your salary. You’ve
either been dropped on your head numerous times or you’re
a complete idiot. “That’s okay Mr. Boss Sir, I don’t
need extra money from your company. In fact, I’d work for
free if I didn’t have a family and bills to pay. Thank you
for your kindness. Now if you don’t mind, I’m gonna
bang my head on the floor because I’m an idiot.”
If someone is offering to make your life better, you accept it.
It’s human nature to do so. So why is this odd faction of
M3 enthusiasts not accepting the new more powerful V-8? Surely
these M3 enthusiasts are not tree huggers. They’re not worried
about more pollution caused by the thirstier V-8. If they were
tree huggers, they’d be Prius enthusiasts and have posters
of Leonardo Dicaprio – the lead tree hugger – in their
rooms. Surely they’re not worried about counting to 8 instead
of 6; most of them have 10 fingers. So what is it that concerns
them enough to complain about the engine swap?
Sound! They would like retain the sound of the inline 6 cylinder
engine. I would have to say that that is the dumbest reason to
not want the V-8.
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