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Originally Posted by JAJ
BMW M has a budget to work within and after they invested serious money in the engine and significant money in the suspension they had to be creative with the brakes, so they nipped over to the 5-Series department and nicked the brake calipers out of their parts bin.
They're less expensive than multi-piston, they have fewer moving parts to go wrong, and frankly they work pretty well too. Brakes are pretty simple devices, and so long as the calipers don't flex you can convert fluid pressure into friction pretty efficiently.
It's not that you can't do better with multi-piston fixed calipers, it's just that it costs more, and once they'd solved the bling problem with holy rotors, the vast majority of M3 owners just don't care about the calipers.
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Lol it's true. Everyone looks at those holy rotors! I admit, I do too!