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Originally Posted by Burrcold
Right, but that was also BMW Motorsport (later "M") that was engineering the higher performance model. The "M" now is 99% ///Marketing and we all know it. I was under no assumption that my previous M340i was an "M car". I would have been happier if they had kept the F30 340i M Sport moniker.
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Okay. I don’t quite get your difficulty. You’re right, in 1979 the M535 was prior to the official ///M Division, but it also only had Motorsport tweaks just like the current Motorsport designated cars and was not a fully reworked ///M car like the ///M Division has traditionally built. I think it’s fair to say the current Motorsport models, M340, M240i, M550i are tweaked similarly to the way the original M535 was with levels of equipment/tuning models like my F30 340i M Sport did not have. The M Sport on my car is truly only appearance/marketing (though it is a definite improvement in appearance). Anyway, that’s my perspective on the current M added to the series names.