28-03-2009, 10:55 PM | #1 |
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M3 GTR Road Version
Anyone seen one on the road? 250,000 Dollars and only 350BHP V8.
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28-03-2009, 11:45 PM | #2 |
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No never seen one but then BMW only made a handfull so it could go racing...think it was single figures....may have even be 2 or 3
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29-03-2009, 01:22 AM | #3 |
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I have the silver car under my tv
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29-03-2009, 11:16 AM | #4 |
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what a car?
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29-03-2009, 03:57 PM | #5 |
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OK here we go......
This was BMW's most expensive ever road car. It is also a car the company will never talk about apparently. The E46 M3 GTR road car was BMW's somewhat flimsy grounds for producing the M3 GTR race car that swept all before it in the GT3 class of the 2001 American Le Mans series. The rules at the time stated thet there must be road going versions of the race car for sale on 2 continents within 12 months of the rules being issued. BMW took them at their word. 10 GTR's were originally meant to go on sale to select BMW customers at a whopping 250,000 euros. Perhaps not surprisingly production never made it into double figures. Nowwhere near in fact - just 2 are rumoured to exist. One is owned by BMW the other is in a collection in the Middle East. The race car had 450bhp but due to emissions and noise regs the road car had 350bhp. Only one press pic of the road car was ever released. It showed it sitting next to the race car (as above). However, BMW's 1st V8 M3 remains something of an embarrassment to the company, because it is the hard and uncomfortable evidence that they stretched the rules to breaking point.
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Saw these pics about 40 years ago and they're the only ones I've ever seen - this must be the one that was sent to the middle east (given the signs in the dealership). |
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29-03-2009, 09:38 PM | #7 |
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I have to agree. With those standard looking chrome 19" M3 wheels and that horrid Clubsport-esque bootlid spoiler, i think it looks a little cheap looking compared to the understated style and aggression of a CSL.
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30-03-2009, 02:44 AM | #8 |
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Yes i agree with you, it doesn't look anywhere near as menacing as a CSL.
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