[bigjae1976]

The M division is gone down hill quickly.

First, I can’t believe BMW claims anything on the car claims to be an homage to the M1. The BMW and M divisions are so focused on the past they aren’t paying attention to the here and now.

So now M has nothing to do with motorsports. It should be the ///D division for drag racing. No one really cares what a drag racing car looks like which seems to be the approach in designing the recent M models.

///M = comfortable, high tech and luxury drag racing.

Somehow Porsche continues to elevate their performance, M keeps moving further from if.

This hybrid V8 should have been released ages ago.

This split headlight design has to go.

BMW builds composite monocoques. Why doesn’t BMW build an M car with one?

An M3 - carbon monocoque and body panels, take all of the crap out of it, weighs 3k lbs, and put in a turbo hybrid 4 with a MGU-K. I’d pay $100k for that!

Or imagine if M cars had carbon monocoques? Then you wouldn’t need 100 adjustments to the car and +50lbs of bracing. BMW doesn’t interest me anymore. I’ve sat in and driven every current M
car. Not one has moved me. It’s fun in a straight line. I get in an E60 M5…it’s like HOLY F%#?!!!

I get the the feeling the XM will be even more underwhelming.