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Originally Posted by AwesomeBMW2
Not to name drop, or sound like a douche, but I'm pretty close friends with Matt Russell, head of M NA, and he tells me the car will be a hell of an evolution in the right direction. I trust him, I'll just say that. Matt's no bull-shitter when it comes to the M brand.
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Can't think of a better guy to be friends with. Color me jealous.
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Originally Posted by kueks29
I hope so too! Because I do not want to have tuned series engine in my M3! ... And it also speaks a lot for that!
Unfortunately, even some on the other hand ...
As I have repeatedly said, I would not bet a cent! Neither of I6, V6 still on!
If you ask five people on the subject, you get 10 different answers!
One half swears by the I6 and appeals to the tradition and considers it impossible to install anything other than an I6 ...
The other half swears that it's a V6 (Apollo concept) will be ...
As Scott said already so well:
Soon we will know more. Because it really seems to be that the F80 is entered into production in September. This could be built enough cars for a presentation to the beginning.
... and as soon as the M3 was entered into volume production, we will know what he has under the hood ...
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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, but I highly doubt the F80 production starts in September. Like we said a couple of times, BMW is still seeing very high demand for the E92 and E93 M3 models so it makes no sense to kill their sales by introducing the successor early.
Best regards,
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