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Originally Posted by aajami
If this thing (and its forthcoming E92 counterpart) is marketed as a CSL, there is no way in hell BMW would allow it to turn a slower Ring time than the E46 CSL it replaces. What kind of message is that sending?
"Hey, here's the update to the CSL. Also, it's slower than the older one. No really, we know what we're doing."
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how gutted was the CSL compared to the GTS?
I ask out of pure curiosity, because given the time difference between the two cars, and the platform, which is supposedly so much better, why is this "track monster" GTS only 2 seconds faster than a 5 year old earlier generation car? The SMG vs DCT alone should have produced a greater time gap between the two.
If BMW said they were building it in between the stock M3 and the GTS, like someone posted earlier, i'm sure it's not gonna be one second faster than the CSL, and one second slower than the GTS.
Therefore, I conclude, this car is not meant to beat the CSL. That was the GTS's job.