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Originally Posted by Artemis
Well, it's no secret that BMW did quite some surgery on the E46 M3 to develop the E46 M3 CSL, shaving off 110 kg (1495 kg reduced to 1385 kg), never called it "limited edition" and made 1383 cars (see for example here, here and here).
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And then there is also the art of figures management that had to be adjusted because of new regulations, requiring car weight figures to be more realistic (no longer the weight figure of a stripped Porsche with PCCB, manual transmission and without airco, without SATNAV & radio, etc. to push down the weight figure to the minimum level - a minimum weight configuration that only very few customers spec):
As a consequence, it's almost inevitable that the G87 M2 weight figure will be higher - at least on paper - than the F87 M2 6MT weight figure (1495 kg) or M2C 6MT weight figure (1550 kg) (or as I noted in the past: "S55 = Supplementary 55 kg"  ).
A 4-cyl layout could save weight (and for the F87 M2 BMW has also toyed with that idea at some point in time many moons ago), but it's gonna be 6-cyl again. From 6-cyl to 4-cyl: Porsche gave it a shot with the 718 Cayman, but all fancy marketing could not convince and Porsche re-introduced the 6-cyl for the 718 Cayman. |
So the new rules in EU drove Porsche back to a 4.0L NA flat six and there have been rumors that this engine will displace the turbos in the regular 911’s. So who’s up for a 3.5-4.0L NA inline in the next M2? Do we know how much displacement can be added to the current crop of BMW 6’s?