[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by EXE46

Can I answer lol? I guess Ariel Atom 🙄

Ha, many years ago I looked at them. If I didn't need to carry a kid around, I'd likely just have a Caterham.

[TruthOne]

Oh god people still crying about watered down "fake m cars". LOL

[MadBimmeRad]

Originally Posted by TruthOne

Oh god people still crying about watered down "fake m cars". LOL

I'd much rather get the Alpina B3 with 30ish horses less G80 M3, but a lot better looking a car and every bit as agile as the M3

[Bimmerg621]

Originally Posted by TruthOne

Oh god people still crying about watered down "fake m cars". LOL

These egos are so fragile. lol

[anselansel]

i'll take my 430 any day. I get compliments all the time. I never got them with my f30. The G20 looks so similar to the f30 to the average person, I doubt they could hardly pick them apart. This is the danger of just regurgitating design year after year....

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by anselansel

i'll take my 430 any day. I get compliments all the time. I never got them with my f30. The G20 looks so similar to the f30 to the average person, I doubt they could hardly pick them apart. This is the danger of just regurgitating design year after year....

Huh??

[Mani59]

The video:

[Ikester19]

Originally Posted by anselansel

i'll take my 430 any day. I get compliments all the time. I never got them with my f30. The G20 looks so similar to the f30 to the average person, I doubt they could hardly pick them apart. This is the danger of just regurgitating design year after year....

The G20 looks similar to the F30?? Now that's a first..

[NightWriter]

"Why does the M3 have such an aggressive face? Why can't it be a more subtle enhancement of the 340?"

Also:

"Why are they adding all these M parts to the 340? It's really watering down the M brand?"

[EXE46]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Ha, many years ago I looked at them. If I didn't need to carry a kid around, I'd likely just have a Caterham.

FRS/BRZ fits your criteria if you're in the USA. UK should have more choices for small analog cars.

Originally Posted by NightWriter

"Why does the M3 have such an aggressive face? Why can't it be a more subtle enhancement of the 340?"

Also:

"Why are they adding all these M parts to the 340? It's really watering down the M brand?"

How long have you been hibernating? You can't be a BMW enthusiast to just now having this epiphany. The C43 gets quad exhaust like the C63, BMW still saves that as an M exclusive along with countless other features.

Anyhow! it's ridiculous and petty to be bothered by something this trivial. If you want exclusive buy an LFA, McLaren F1, Carerra GT or something like that. M cars are mass produced automobiles, not meant to be exclusive to a select elite few.

[buckybadger]

Originally Posted by EXE46

FRS/BRZ fits your criteria if you're in the USA. UK should have more choices for small analog cars.

How long have you been hibernating? You can't be a BMW enthusiast to just now having this epiphany. The C43 gets quad exhaust like the C63, BMW still saves that as an M exclusive along with countless other features.

Anyhow! it's ridiculous and petty to be bothered by something this trivial. If you want exclusive buy an LFA, McLaren F1, Carerra GT or something like that. M cars are mass produced automobiles, not meant to be exclusive to a select elite few.

We all know car manufacturers exchange parts but now they are taking it to the next level by slapping some key design elements like the M mirrors on cheaper models. Before use to be some minor things here and there but now BMW will put anything on any model to maximize profit. Like I said a win for the 3 series.

[Bimmerg621]

Originally Posted by buckybadger

We all know car manufacturers exchange parts but now they are taking it to the next level by slapping some key design elements like the M mirrors on cheaper models. Before use to be some minor things here and there but now BMW will put anything on any model to maximize profit. Like I said a win for the 3 series.

I doubt that the average person besides a BMW enthusiast would know that the M mirrors were exclusive to M models.

[vj123]

Originally Posted by Bimmerg621

These egos are so fragile. lol

So true. M owners cry about diluting the brand and on the other side, BMW try to milk 3 series customers by adding these parts. This is done by all OEMs to maximize profit in whatever they do.

People should understand reality and move on.

[TruthOne]

I would think BMW owners would be cool with this considering the M340i is faster and better than anything in its class just like the G80/82 is better than it's competition in its class. Instead you have some M owners mad that the Lite M gets a carbon roof and an M badge lol. First world problems.

[wj100]

Originally Posted by DavidXJ

One wonders why there couldn't be more solidarity between M and M-Performance owners. A bit of camaraderie wouldn't go amiss, given that we're all enthusiasts of the same series after all. Indeed, in the UK I sense there is more mutual appreciation--and less appetite for immediately sanctifying the G80, a car which after all hardly needs defending, protecting, or putting on a pedestal. It's astonishing to see what remains in reality a very distinct M340 design triggering such trepidation among some self-defined M purists. Maybe it's because the G20 40i has turned out to be so impressive, as in fact many M drivers themselves have recently (and collegially) attested.

Agree, as a former F82 owner I really don't get all the angst. Plus, doesn't the G80/82 grill provide enough visual differentiation??

On a side note, I just ordered an X3M40i as my wife's DD. The X3M people are just as upset about the LCI X3M40i getting more visual M cues as well...

[Quadruple VANOS]

Originally Posted by TruthOne

I would think BMW owners would be cool with this considering the M340i is faster and better than anything in its class just like the G80/82 is better than it's competition in its class. Instead you have some M owners mad that the Lite M gets a carbon roof and an M badge lol. First world problems.

I wish I could confirm availability of a carbon roof option for M340i, but I hear only "not here" from dealers in the US.

[Ramos]

Originally Posted by Ikester19

The G20 looks similar to the F30?? Now that's a first..

Believe it or not, he's not wrong.
While you and I feel that the G20 is a very different car from the F30, the "average" person does not see that.
My wife could not tell that I had a loaner G20 for days while it was sitting in the garage in the place of my F30 (same color)

[TruthOne]

Originally Posted by Quadruple VANOS

I wish I could confirm availability of a carbon roof option for M340i, but I hear only "not here" from dealers in the US.

I could have sworn somebody on here was posting pics of their carbon roof M340. Maybe they weren't in America? Not sure

[buckybadger]

Originally Posted by TruthOne

I could have sworn somebody on here was posting pics of their carbon roof M340. Maybe they weren't in America? Not sure

As a M2C owner I'm not complaining but just saying that the specialness of the M brand is fading away. To me, personally I would pick the M340i LCI over the outgoing M3C. It's easily $30K cheaper and for daily practicability it's a better ride, especially now that it has some more M cosmetic elements. Will be interesting to see the chassis and steering improvements.

Does anyone know if there's an option to order with dynamic dampers? And if yes do you recommend this option over the static fixed suspension?

[SoCali E36]

I wonder why an LCI is doing track testing

[EXE46]

Originally Posted by TruthOne

I could have sworn somebody on here was posting pics of their carbon roof M340. Maybe they weren't in America? Not sure

I think Canada gets it for some reason, they always gets the good stuff first lol.


Dislciamer! I have no issues with Canadian's they're fine people except Burrcold he's a sell-out lol.....

Originally Posted by SoCali E36

I wonder why an LCI is doing track testing

Maybe they're realizing the car was under-tiered from launch and needs wider tires...i hope.

[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by EXE46

I think Canada gets it for some reason, they always gets the good stuff first lol.


Dislciamer! I have no issues with Canadian's they're fine people except Burrcold he's a sell-out lol.....

Damn straight!