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Originally Posted by MT4life
I hear you and agree with everything you're saying.
My point was that if they made a "standard" 340 then most likely M-sport package would have gotten you what you're getting with M340i. So they just skipped "standard" 340 because if I'm not mistaken at least post LCI, last couple of years, I haven't seen a non-Msport pkg 340 on a road anyway, even if it were technically available.
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the "m performance" stuff on the new m340i is basically what a hypothetical 340i g20 would be + msport, track handling package (which . you can get on a 330i m sport, it adds the brakes, the diff and the non runflat tires) and what used to be called mppk (which in the F30 got you what 355hp instead of 320hp.... in in this new G20 theoretical sense, gets you 382hp instead the "normal" b58 335hp). That is hypothetically if they kept the package structure the same as the F30 generation.
BMW seems to have been trying to reduce number of combinations of options for their cars, which lowers costs/ eases assembly, and also prevents weird combinations that dont sell. Its probably why there is no red leather this time either, and an even more limited color palette (or well we aren't getting those sand colors this time it seems...)
I'm sure some analyst figured out that the number of 335i/340i sold last year without m-sport was small. That it would be simpler to just combine mppk/m-sport/trackhandling/b58 as a giant option package called "m340i" for a 330i and be done with it. And here we are.