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      09-26-2019, 08:35 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by swagon View Post
I found a video from last week in which they're running multiple prototypes.

The one at 3:01 clearly has a G20 front end.
Like I said earlier, seeing all of the M3 prototypes with the tall grill is what had sealed the deal for me that its release would coincide with the M4. It seemed like a lock. However, with reliable intel saying it's coming about a year before the M4, the shared front end is hard to understand.

If we'd had knowledge of the early 2020 M3 release months ago, I'll bet there would have been a lot more talk about the possibility of the tall-grill M3 test vehicles actually being powertrain mules for the M4, while the small-grill M3 test vehicles were the "real" M3 mules. Meanwhile, there is still a group who firmly believe that the early 2020 M3 date is incorrect.

Disclaimer: none of the above should be mistaken for me registering any opinion whatsoever. Just idle banter.
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