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Originally Posted by Mak135i
Solstice numbers are not unreasonable.
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Not for a base price, which is what the people who were replying to him had assumed he meant until he clarified in a later post.
When comparing car prices it is typical to use base prices or prices for similarly equipped vehicles. Since we can't do the latter yet, base prices are probably the least confusing and ambiguous for the sake of discussion.
Of course, we can still keep in mind that the new car will have standard equipment that the old one did not such as IDrive (like pretty much all BMWs do now, except 1/2 Series). EDC may very well be standard on the new cars as well, but I would not bet on that yet. The DCT transmission could also become standard with the manual being a no-cost option. But again I am not ready to call that either way. However if all of these things do become standard, a near-$70k base price for an F80 M3 makes even more sense. That is at least $5k in options for the E9x (hard to say exactly since you can't get IDrive without navigation for E9x).