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In Reply to: Oops, make that title, "Maybe old M3 pricing info, posted by maybe not - Billy on April 28, 2000 at 21:39:33:
: : "The M3 bows at 100,000DM in Germany, and that translates to $51,000 U.S currently - but we are not going to do that. We will take approximately ten percent out of the dollar cost, so we are definitely aiming under $50,000. Sure, it's a step up from the $45,000 that most old M3s average at out showrooms, but this time U.S. customers are getting an awful lot more power than before.
: : Also, Gerhard Richter (the president of engineering at BMW Individual), is quoted as saying about the power of the M3,
: : "Because of U.S. emission legislation, we do lose some power in the 50-state format, as we must have closed-loop pre-cat installation. The other difference to European specification is that we are required to have the on-board diagnostics (OBD), but otherwise they are the same."
: : The article also reports the 330hp US figure versus 343hp Europe, and quotes a "Munich engineer" as stating that "the torque is clipped to around 255 foot-pounds" (as compared with 269 ft-lbs in Europe.
: : So, it looks like we can expect a base price of around $45.5K, and that the lower power of the U.S. version is real (not just an artifact of Europe-to-US power conversion formulas).
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as per the BMWNA rep. at a Q and A at the NYC show. He also said the base price should be less than that for the US m3, but did not quote how much less.
the newest confounding issue, at least for my thinking, is what we will get std. for our 4xK and what they will get for their 100,000DM. The auto show info and the rep. confirmed NAPPA leather as std. for the US car, a pricey item, but not necessarily for the euro car -- they may get the "cloth" seat std. No other big ticket option items have been included or eliminated publicly by BMW, as far as I know.
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