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Originally Posted by Lil bastard
HP, IMHO, is a fools game, you can always heap more on. It's just a matter of cash and compromise. Handling and braking, not HP, is what always distinguished a Sports Car from an ordinary street machine. This seems to have been forgotten, though the Sports Car category isn't the only one at blame here when you can get 290 HP from a stock Nissan Maxima (like you really need that in a street car).
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I just had a similar argument with someone who thinks the current M3 is brilliant.
I told him it's pig and the earlier E30/36/46 M3s were true to its concept. He disagreed.
That, and one of the mechanics at the BMW dealer said, M nowadays stands for marketing.