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      07-23-2009, 09:27 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by drft92 View Post
2) BMW tends to always under estimate the achievable times and speeds of their vehicles. Since the e30 M3 and maybe even before they have always under estimated.
From what I've heard, they're conservative about 0-60 times for the same reason the odometers are optimistic: German law. It's considered false advertising if they can't just pull a car off the lot and reproduce the claimed time, so it's easier to fudge the time a bit. There was apparently a problem with demo cars having blueprinted engines and such.
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