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"Senior Editor Jason Cammisa has a superhuman ability to pull fantastic details from the ambience of an auto show. At the BMW booth, he uncovered some juicy tidbits that no enthusiast should miss. - Ed M3/M4: Sloppy drivers need not apply &amp;quot;The M3/M4 won&amp;#039;t tolerate sloppy throttle inputs. It&amp;#039;s without a doubt the highest-performance road car M has built, but it also requires a LOT of talent to drive ... at least BMW has a network of driver&amp;#039;s schools to help there, starting with the teen driving program up through the BMW CCA race schools.&amp;quot;  - A BMW employee who&amp;#039;s driven the new M3  An upside to the way the 3 Series GT looks &amp;quot;This is better than the 5 Series GT. And I loved that car! It was the best car for people who paid high insurance premiums. It reduced their insurance because it had been pre-crashed. Looked like someone took a beautiful 5 Series Sedan and backed it into a wall.&amp;quot;  - An anonymous gentleman  How is the M235i like a snowmobile? &amp;quot;Oh, sure, we can put xDrive in the M235i.&amp;quot;  - A sneaky BMW exec Cammisa says: &amp;quot;Take that to mean BMW will be making an all-wheel-drive M235i. The M235i xDrive will make for a quick snowmobile.&amp;quot;  The latest fad diet for M Division &amp;quot;No, there is a real weight savings on the new M3, even for the US market. It&amp;#039;s going to be somewhere between 150 and 200 lbs lighter than the E9x M3. And this is the first generational weight reduction on an M product. Ever.&amp;quot;  - A BMW NA employee (who definitely knows)  Who says (turbo) size doesn&amp;#039;t matter? &amp;quot;The M3&amp;#039;s turbos are actually smaller than the turbos in the N54HP\u2014the 1 Series M Coupe engine.&amp;quot;  - A BMW North America employee who knows, but wouldn&amp;#039;t swear his life on it  Some sorry excuses about the M7 that we want built &amp;quot;I know, I know. But actually, the X5M&amp;#039;s chassis was stiffer than any vehicle BMW has ever made. It was stiffer than the E30 M3 DTM with the chrome moly roll cage in it.&amp;quot;  - A BMW exec who was defending the choice for M making the X5M but not an M7 Cammisa says: &amp;quot;And then he made some excuse about the driving position being at the center of gravity ... or something [laughs].&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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