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Originally Posted by M3Post
Could this have been the moment (the 2001 American LeMans Series’s GT class) when BMW realized that a V8 for the 2007 E90/92/93 M3 must be 'made to happen' no matter what the bean counters have to say? IF we build it they will come.
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Bingo.
And I trust that the subsequent development of the S85 was what gave the M Engineers a bargaining chip to reason/negotiate with the bean counters.
The result?
M Engineers got their production V8 M3 with S65, a basis for a racing platform, resolving the homologation issues that the M3 GTR had, and the bean counters got their cost effectiveness since the bottom end of the S65 was basically identical to the S85, sharing/saving some development and production costs.