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Re: GS BMWs - Which is best?

To: "Burns, James B." <James.Burns@jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: GS BMWs - Which is best?
From: Chuck Hanson <hanson@swcp.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:44:01 -0600
At 12:47 PM 9/19/00 -0400, you wrote:

>With Neal Sapp's nationals performance in a 325is, and with the E30 M3 going
>to the new equivalent of GS next year, I was wondering which BMW might be
>the best bet in this class next year.  What do y'all think?
>

>E36 325is:  Good torque.  Optional LSD.

Be very careful here.  I was looking into buying one of these cars and was
told by a BMW technical guy that the traction control and limited slip
options were mutually exclusive on these cars.  Period.  Every car I found
locally had traction control so I opted for a scruffy old Porsche instead.
;-)  I don't know what year the traction control became standard, but I was
told that's when the LSD went away for good (except the M3 of course).

For what it's worth...

Chuck Hanson
Albuquerque, NM


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