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Naw man, gonna put a giant ass wing on it then throw on some Rocket Bunny aero kit. It is going to be lit fam.
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12-09-2020, 08:44 AM | #1300 |
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I just realized that this thread is now the main reason why I keep coming back. I used to browse the entirety of Bimmerpost but now that 95% of the range either doesn't appeal to me or is truly ugly, no point in visiting the rest of the site (the new X7...oh god) unless it's a major reveal or something.
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OMG poor car, please put it out of its misery.
I priced one on the configuration and it came out to ~100k. Sorry that's Pcar money, used 991 or near new Cayman. You can find a GT4 in the 115-120 range. If you consider mods on the M3/M4 I'd rather have the GT4. Last edited by irunalot; 12-09-2020 at 09:47 AM.. |
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12-09-2020, 10:36 AM | #1302 |
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So we've arrived to the point where spec'ing an M car to most effectively conceal its design is advertised as a win
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12-09-2020, 11:12 AM | #1304 | |
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Also, shout out and sympathies to the BMW-specific domains. Relegated to covering these monstrosities from now until the end of time. Their plight, hopes, and prayers are just barely veiled in the content. Whether this is what the new X7 going to look like remains to be seen. We actually like how the current model looks and would hate to see it change this drastically. Then again, maybe the final product will look a lot better than this rendering – and there’s a big chance that’s going to happen – and we’ll change our mind when we see the real deal.
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*Soapbox* True motorsport is brand irrelevant and irreverent. BMW has for years, had strong motorsport DNA and that has drawn folks like us here on this thread to the brand. I think what worries me, at least, is that I sense a seismic shift in the latest products and marketing, they have been subtle rumblings in the past but the latest products confirm this shift. It's unfortunate, but its the pressure of corporate earnings to meet street expectations, shareholders etc. In the short run, companies chase markets (Asia, grille design etc.) and revenue streams (M badge slapping), but the pressure on cost control will limit bespoke platforms (weight gain, less lightweight panels, rigorous testing). BMW, as much as we love it, isn't Porsche. Its more mainstream in its client composition, so margins are lower overall than Porsche. You can see their (BMW) efforts to go upstream (M8, M6) to push margins. I actually think that Porsche benefits from being under VW (material costs, synergies of production) as their client is not the middle income demographic. Being smaller, they truly benefit from the resources from a giant like VW. The concern there is that VW doesn't kill the goose by chasing margins. So far, they've done a decent job with the bespoke brands they have. Hence, the F80 to me was a flash in the pan product for BMW. It is a platform with outstanding performance the punches above its weight and is fairly competitive with an equivalent P-car. Reliability, build quality, cooling, weight reduction were all taken into account. That's rare (and it was an entirely 180 degree about face from the e9x) and that is why we were hoping for the continuation of this trend in the G8x. Grille aside, if fundamentally, the G8x had just a slight weight increase and some motorsport based technology improvement to set the car apart(no, drift meters DO NOT count), I think there would not have been a large backlash. What we got instead, was more weight and polarizing design and what seemed like flashy bits (JDM exterior, interior, bejeweled glass shifter knobs etc., drift meters). Anyone want to guess 5-10 years from now, if the car will be remembered for these features? Implicit in the ads is the message that the M3/M4 is not about motorsports any longer. It's about a lifestyle, not about track performance and I think that has got purists like us riled up because of what it means for the M3/4 going forward. The motorsport DNA could be at risk here as they chase what its faddish in markets/culture. BMW has been leaning a lot on its motorsport heritage to sell cars in the last few decades. They seem to be forgetting what appealed to the purists as they chase revenue. With each new gen, it seems less motorsport focused. More worryingly, it appears that the people in BMW M that are connected with its motorsport past (Biermann and his crew- people who were responsible for the design of the F8x platform), have left. Will there be another generation of like minds in BMW M? Or will it be left to bean counters and lifestyle mavens? *Steps off soapbox* P.S. I didn't intend to pen such a long post but got carried away . |
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^ I think you hit a lot of valid points in your doctorate thesis. I enjoyed it.
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The G8X is a disaster. 🤮
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As a tidbit, Porsche was so successful as an independent company and was sitting on so much cash, it almost bought VW. In a tug of war between cousins, Piech outwitted Porsche and VW ended up owning Porsche. But it could have easily gone the other way. I also don’t agree with your assessment of the E9X M3. In its era, it also performed above its class and could outperform a 911 of that era on track.
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I don’t didn’t mean to imply that the all the prior gen M3s were not capable of being competitive with Porsches in races but I think in trims available to consumers, it was not as competitive. The E9x platform had rod bearing issues, needed additional cooling on track and was heavier than the outgoing E46 M3. The F8x’s cooling is a dramatic improvement over the E9x (just by itself, improving the overall reliability of the engine) and other tidbits like a closed deck design. I wouldn’t have considered the F8x if Biermann hadn’t made those design changes and would have just gotten a 911.1 S. P.S. I realized that I misspoke, its been such a long time since I read the case but Porsche was planning to secretly buy out VW. The great financial recession caused VW’s shares to crater in value, forcing a liquidity crisis at Porsche. They did use derivatives in addition to equity purchases and that just made it worse when the share value cratered. Still, at that time, VW was bigger than Porsche, but Porsche needed a 75% stake in VW. In reality, I wouldn’t say that Porsche got outwitted, rather they got greedy by using options and chased the acquistion. In the end, the trade got too big and overwhelmed the capacity of Porsche when it crashed. If they had not over-reached, their plan would have succeeded when VW AG’s stock cratered, they could have just swooped in and purchased the shares. The over-reach here was not watching your liquidity levels; same as Bear Stearns, Lehman, Countrywide etc. Their use of derivatives signaled leverage as they couldn’t buy VW outright with cash on hand; it also signaled that they were reaching. The market is dangerous like that; once news of their intent was signaled and their liquidity situation was known; I wouldn’t be surprised if it was revealed that VW had ‘allowed’ their share price to fall to put tremendous stress at Porsche. Last edited by CT_M3; 12-10-2020 at 08:20 AM.. |
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This was signaled long before Kith and long before the G8X, but then you had owners of the lower M-Performance labeled cars telling legit M owners that they were being sensitive, had too much ego, etc.
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