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Originally Posted by KennyPowers
In contrast, the m3 has lost 200 lbs over the prior gen and has many tech features and stiffer materiels which will vastly improve handling.
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You're certainly on the right track here but technically this is incorrect.
The car is 80 kg lighter than a similarly equipped E92 M3, that is about 175 lb and straight from the horses mouth. Also, stiffer materials are not the essence of making a stiffer chassis, it is much more about where you use the materials and how much in what place. This is how a predominantly steel chassis has continued to get stiffer across generation of the M3. An exception to this will be the case of the full CFRP monocoque type of chassis. In this case the stiffness of the material itself will significantly contribute to the stiffness of the chassis. So although it is almost for certain that the new chassis is stiffer than the outgoing one both in bending and in torsion, we don't know that for sure yet.