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I recently got some wheel time in an M8C at a BMW marketing event. It could be confused with a new Mustang by some (minus the badges). Brutally fast...noticeably faster on launch than the M5C. The interior is cramped. Fake boy racer exhaust. Their is so much technology in the cockpit the driving experience is completely destroyed. Pure video game digital driving. Steering numb. Controls are not intuitive. I hated it. I will say that the CCB's have extra terrestrial stopping power. If I ever buy another BMW M car (which i'm sure I will at some point) it will be normally aspirated and not have iDrive.
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Thanks for the review. Many valid and great points. I drove an M8C recently too and I dont like the ZF unit they're going to. It makes more sense, smaller, way more cost efficient and can hold 750-800? LB feet of torque.
Personally, I dont know what BMW was thinking, the car feels 'modern' lets just say, but nowhere near the levels of 150k+ cars in the segment. I almost feel like they said, we have all that hardware lets just make something out of it all. To the mustang comments, I agree! Lol...
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Finally a spec showed up at a local dealer that interests me. Donnington/Black non-comp low MSRP but with the comp wheels. Seeing if I can get a crazy deal at M3/4 pricing. If so might pull the trigger despite the flaws. Need to consolidate some cars anyway.
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Well....
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Thx. Donnington is a little lighter than Space Grey plus Donnington seems to have some kind of brown tones in it.
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I used to go the races at Donington park in England as a kid.. it's a smaller venue but loved by the locals. I wonder if that's the inspiration for the color.. BMW does like to name colors after tracks, fitting England gets the Grey's with the weather and all 😂 .. it looks fantastic under the garage lights!!
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Entirely possible since there is almost no turbo lag at all. So my guess is that the turbochargers are really small and maybe running out of steam in the upper rpms.
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my wife's 335d was like that. the last 1,000 rpms were worthless.
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Even tho mine popped up at the dealer just last week, it was built 10/2019 and was sitting on a train for months due to covid. So I will be able to tune.
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After a couple days with the M8, i like the e92 M3 a lot better in EVERY respect except one thing - off the line grip.
So I'll be keeping the e92. Will use it almost exclusively as a weekend surf car with the M8 as a daily beater/commuter.
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By the way I wanted to mention the exhaust sound on the non-competition model is a lot better IMHO.
On the competition, I had to close the exhaust valves because otherwise the car made the worst crackle farting and popping ricer sounds on decel. The non-comp cars do not do this at all. I keep the exhuast valves open and it has a very deep bass sound to it like a good v8 should. In cruising range it's a bit like the e92M3 stock. Obviously muted at WOT due to the turbos. Maybe it shows my age a bit, but I prefer an exhaust note that is smooth and perfectly linear not raspy like a v8 mustang. This car already looks mustang-ish I dont want to to also sound like a mustang.
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You must be very good at negotiating because BMW SD used to be always higher priced than any of the other dealers and less willing to budge. Granted haven't stepped in there for a few years at least, but either way that's a solid daily you got there. Enjoy it!
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