> Why don't you buy it? I've got no idea what the production numbers for an
> M3 LTW are, but if its hard/impossible to get 'em, why shouldn't they be
> barred from stock?
A perfectly good question. I'll ask another one: If it's easy to get a Neon
that is factory prepared the same way as an M3 LTW, why shouldn't THEY be
barred from stock? I personally have no opinion (I don't compete against
either of them ;) ) but it's fun to ask these kinds of questions and see
what happens. :)
> I also don't know how they compare performance wise to stock M3's. If
> they're light years better than perhaps they (in effect) simply got
> performance indexed outta stock, similar to the viper?
They're a little faster all around than the stock M3s. A little. Not light
years better. A perfect example of this happened at yesterday's autox. Two
excellent drivers were duking it out for the class win, one in an M3 LTW,
one in a standard M3 4-door ("M3 heavyweight?") Both cars and drivers have
held the course record. The competition was extremely close and great fun
to watch. Each one would set a time faster than the other on each run. Who
made the fastest run in the end? The non-LTW 4-door by a nose.
- Justin
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