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Originally Posted by bigjae1976
I wonder why they even bothered with stop/start. It would have been nice if that would have gotten the M3 out of gas guzzler territory.
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I'm suspecting while it didn't help in the US with the current (2011) gas regs, it is helping in other countries, and it's easier to just make it standard for all M3s rather than build a specific US that doesn't include it. I know some have mentioned that future EPA tests will start accounting for this feature, so maybe it will help in 2012 tests (where overall BMW fleet averages will need to go up), and BMW decided to just start including it while making other changes.