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Originally Posted by Law
"Quasi-official" and "sans" the badge, all noted in the OP.
Let's not take the context away.
Here's the Official BMW Press Release for the UK market for the BMW M3 CS Coupé from 2005.
Badge or no badge, the UK market E46 M3 CS is what set the precedent for the "CS" to be essentially a CSL-lite (or GTS-lite).
That is the reason for its inclusion in the article, nothing more, nothing less.
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BMW UK press release that is. Elsewhere in the world, this trim for the M3 was called the competition package, the first iteration of the competition pack for that matter. The "new" CS line up is intended to be slotted between the Competition model and the CSL/GTS. So I have to disagree with you, the UK CS is not the precursor of the current CS, but rather a re-labelled Competition pack. BMW AG does not even recognise its existence since it introduced the F80 M3cs as the "first ever" in their worldwide press releases.
I am just nitpicking here, the OP remains one great article
