"New M3 to debut in Frankfurt: The new M3 will debut at next September's Frankfurt auto show. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the BMW M boss Ulrich Bruhnke confirmed the date while at the launch of the M6 convertible in southern France last September. "The Frankfurt International Motor Show is so important [to BMW] we must show it there," he said. The fourth-generation M3, based on the E90 3 Series Coupe....... ".
Page 32 of December 2006 Issue Heard on the Strasse column by Bob Roemer.
Some more detials of the interview with Bruhnke are here:
http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/Ar...eID=20369&vf=1
Nice digs against MB philosophy in this one.
Damn I sure hope this is wrong. Based on the maturity of the mules, as well as how old the quote actually is I'm still optimistic for Geneva. Making sure that the cars get to NA as 2008 models also makes a debut in Sep 07 seem impossible (cars arrive in EU a couple months earlier than US). Only time will tell....