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Originally Posted by K3N R3D
What you said makes sense, however you are leaving out a very important fact. The M3's base model comes with nothing really. That's why the MSRP can be less than the 335i Vert. BMW will make their money on the options.
P.S. I don't know how much it will be this it just my guesstimate like yours.
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Of course I have no hard facts to back up my numbers, other than some simple time series analysis. I remember when the E46 M3 first came out in 2001 base MSRP was $47K, and you never saw one at the dealer for that price. Some dealers marked them up, and some didn't but they were still not $47K.
So the chances of being able to find a "base" M3 is unlikely. I still think that even the base will be in the $60K arena, and I lean more towards the high end of $60K at that.
You can even look at the new 1 series. The 128 is like $28K, and the 135 is $34K which is not a far cry from the 3 series, yet it was a lot high than most people thought they would be.