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      12-01-2019, 12:11 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by BMWGirlFL View Post
First off I'll say there is tremendous marketing BS in that brochure, along with cool facts. Same as today.


The E30 M3 was conceived in a time where motorsport regulations required road examples to be built in order to homologate a touring car. So it made sense to be done that way.

TCR and other racing formulas today don't require this, they only require the car be built based on an existing model. So car manufacturers don't build homologation specials anymore, they don't need to.

Pragmatism rules in racing, always has and always will. Heck, the 911 race car is mid engine, surely a much bigger blasphemy upon the faithful than anything BMW has ever done...
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