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Here is a swedish M3

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They did a rototest (dynotest) on this car and maximum of torque was 365.5NM, far off what BMW says (400nm)

Has the car already been broken in? Did they do acceleration tests?

Best regards, south

I dont know, the car belong to BMW Sweden and the car came to a BMW meeting and someone there was told this car was ROTO tested.
You can probably found how rototest is done here:

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Thanks, good link. Interesting that they also tested the M5 ( - ONLY REGISTERED AND ACTIVATED USERS CAN SEE ALL LINKS - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER) and this car had 475 NM of wheel torque compared to it's 520 NM engine torque. That makes a drivetrain loss of about 8.65 %. If you calculate the same drivetrain loss for the M3, you get 365.4 NM. So if it really was the wheel torque they measured, everything's good.

Best regards, south

don´t know, if this detail yet posted:
18" rims (260M) aren´t polished Alu!
they are coated in anthracite-grey
so in some angles of photos and dependent from sun -- they look like black
cheers

Steved impressions M3 vs 335i:


Another point worth sharing. I was dwelling on the question of whether the M3 was better than the 335i in the kind of normal daily drive, rather than the kind of roads that play to its increased performance.

I drove along in 5th gear at 2000 rpm and then put my foot down to see what happened. The exhaust note hardened, and it took around the count of 1-2-3 before we were at 3000 rpm. So I see two bonuses there, firstly it sounds a heck of a lot meaner than a 335i, and secondly it pulled hard from low down in 5th. So it has plenty of big-engined grunt low down in the revs, and yet it pulled from 6000 rpm to 8500 rpm faster than any other car in the test (M5 and M6 included). In fact over that last surge of rpm, I would say it felt like one of the fastest cars BMW have ever produced.

So compared to the 335i it loses nothing in terms of low-down grunt, but would destroy it over the last few thousand rpm. I cannot imagine anyone feeling short changed if they moved from 335i to M3.

Take a look on this video, test between M3 V8 and M3 CSL

http://www.germancarzone.com/bmw-vid...vs-m3-csl.html (Video M3 V8 vs M3 CSL)

This one is from topgear. You can get bigger version of it, just go to their website.

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Amidst BMW's heavily evironmentally-oriented presentation, the 2008 BMW M3 snuck in. Yeah, you know all about this 4th-generation of the M3 already. Here in Frankfurt, though, the M3 finally made its public debut.

It's practically old news. BMW brass Norbert Reithofer's opening remarks made a passing reference to the latest M3, but the car's existence is basically a foregone conclusion.

It's striking, though, and the white color of the M3 on display really shows off the carbon fiber roof.



Ooh, looky. A herky-jerky M3 Simulator. The perfect way to barf up your heavy German breakfast of breads and meat.

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