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Originally Posted by GregW / Oregon
I'm still confused about the weight and we don't have US specs yet. If you take the Euro weight of 1,655 kg, which includes 68 kg driver, 7 kg luggage and 90% fuel load and back out those weights you get 1,655-68-7-43 = 1,537 kg or about 3,389 lb. "unladen weight", which is what BMWUSA has always cited, I believe. The figure for the manual E46 M3 was 3,414 lb,, if I recall correctly. Can anyone explain this?
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U.S. "unladen" weight includes full fuel, oil and coolant. Your recollection that the U.S. E46 weighed in at 3,414 pounds unladen sounds about right, since our '04 weighed in on a certified scale at 3408, lacking only about two gallons of fuel, and adding only the weight (if any) of Harmon Kardon and HIDlights. Adding the 55kg published difference between the Euro E46 and E92 M3s, one estimate for U.S. E92 weight would be 3601 pounds.
Another way of doing it would be to take the published difference between the Euro 335i and E92 M3 (1600KG vs 1655kg), and adding that back to the 3,571 published weight of the U.S.spec 335i, giving you (oof!) 3,692 pounds.
Of course, either of these two estimates is suspect, since U.S. standard equipment plus safety and bumper protection features may vary, both from their differences to Euro spec and between individual models.
However, since the models recently tested in Spain by the various nutbooks came in at 3,649 pounds (or 3,650, reading Car & Driver), this pretty much splits the difference.
Basically, too much.
Bruce