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Originally Posted by LeinsCSL
Little bit of light CSL reading for Sunday afternoon now that the Moto GP is over (what was Nicky Hayden doing?)
As Shimmy said, the CSL got some bad press in the early days, but I always blamed the likes of Andrew Frankel at Autocar for this, trotting out the old line of "it's too extreme for the road, get a std M3 instead". Auto Express were at it too: http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/car-reviews/15583/bmw-m3-csl
Even Munich Legends: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/de...start-slipping
Here's an early EVO review, and John Barker has always been a bit of a fan of the CSL, Dickie Meaden less so: http://www.evo.co.uk/carreviews/carg...ti_spec_c.html
Then we get to more recent times where journos have started raving about it, like Car's Ben Barry here asking a question he never answers:
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/...t-ever-BMW-M3/
But for me it's always been Chris Harris who's been the biggest fan of the car, right from his initial prototype drive for Autocar. As far as I remember, he was also the first one to say that the GTS might be put in the shade by the CSL |
Thanks for those links will have a read of them later :-)
When u look at the M3 CSL there are so much engineering details to improve over the already impressive E46 M3 Coupe
I think some people baulked at the £60k price .... Well CFRP ain't cheap .... If I could have afforded one then I would have chosen a new M3 CSL over a 996 Carrera 2 with Porsche Manual Gearbox
In a straight line there is not too much in it between M3 CSL and M3. But from what I understand the CSL really shines in the corners and over a long track like Nurburgring all the little improvements in acceleration, braking, cornering accumulate to make big time improvement.
Funny at the time BMW had lots of takers when they unveiled the prototype but then struggled to sell them all. Therefore, you see some 04, 54 and even maybe 05 Plate M3 CSLs.
I am sure someone must have an 05 Plate M3 CSL :-) ?