2008 BMW M3 has won this year’s Automotive Excellence Award for performance

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The BMW M3 has won Popular Mechanics’ 2008 Automotive Excellence Award in the performance category, presented at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

“We are thrilled that the 2008 BMW M3 has won this year’s Automotive Excellence Award for performance,” said Tom Purves, Chairman and CEO, BMW (US) Holding Corp.

“BMW is dedicated to engineering vehicles that provide consumers with the ultimate driving experience and superior performance, so it is especially gratifying that the BMW M3 has won the award in the performance category.”

The all-new M3 Coupé and M3 Sedan—made their North American debuts at the LA Auto Show. The BMW M3 Coupé has been on sale in Australia since October this year and the 2007 allocation of vehicles is completely sold out.

In its December 2007 article about the awards, Popular Mechanics automotive editors praise the new V8-powered BMW M3 as “..one of the few performance cars that can triumph at weekend track days and still carry four friends in perfect comfort and luxury to an evening movie...The M3 is elegant and powerful, and it does its job at a comfort level not many cars can match.”

Each year, to determine the winners of the Popular Mechanics Automotive Excellence Awards, the magazine’s editors drive more than 100 of the newest cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles, amassing well over 100,000 miles in the process. Through their experiences on extended test drives around the world, instrumented comparison tests and longer-term evaluations, the auto team nominates a list of vehicles in each category. Those selections are put to a vote and the top vote getters in each category win an Automotive Excellence Award.

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