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In Reply to: You can always get more power out of a factory posted by vehicle. More on March 05, 2000 at 21:56:11:
: Any regular production factory vehicle can have more power extracted from the engine. Granted, it would hard to get much more power out of a couple hundred thousand dollar high performance car(lamborgini,ferrari,etc.), but it can be done. It takes a lot of money to design all the seperate components of a car to get the maximum performance. Also, car companies don't focus sales towards hard core enthusiasts. So, they will have a more restrictive exhaust, intake, and various other parts so that the car won't be to loud. The new M3 is a 40-50k dollar car that is not made for all out performance. I'll probably get some negative posts for this, but its a luxury sports car. BMW has spent atleast as much time trying to make the M3 a civil automobile as they have spent getting its performance. Thus, in many casses they had to compormise performance for ride quality. If one had the desire to, they could easily extract a lot more power from the the new M3 and I'm not talking about supercharging or NOS.
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I had taken the references like "the 3.25 is maxed out" too literally. I guess maxed out is in context of reasonable cost for mass production and reasonable street manners, or civility as you put it. So, this helps to explain the new Lightweight, more expensive motor parts and less civility seem already to be assumptions. This seems to be a counterargument for the V8 though. Maybe the 3.25 is only maxed out for now, given present technology and production costs.
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