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Originally Posted by The CSL
At the time, the M3 was £39,735 and the CSL was £58,455.
At that time, the M3 had cloth seats as standard on the coupe and a single CD player, whereas the new model does include quite a bit of equipment that was optional on the old car. The 7.5k difference between the final M3 price of £43k versus £50k for the E92 doesn't make up for the extra equipment alone, but the newer engineering leaps BMW has made will make the new M3 not seem over-priced, imo.
I don't know that off-hand by the way, I have an old 2003 issue of Autocar where the CSL was part of their Performance Car of the Year and came third behind the 360 CS and 996 GT3.
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Yeah, the 47% markup is what I thought happened in Europe. I doubt that the markup in the new release would be too much different...