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V8 TAKEOVER; '08 M3 boasts a brilliant new engine with a chassis to match.

Publication: AutoWeek
Publication Date: 23-JUL-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: V8 TAKEOVER; '08 M3 boasts a brilliant new engine with a chassis to match.(BMW AG)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Greg Kable

Gerhard Richter is reading our minds: How can the new, fourth-generation BMW M3 get close to matching the outgoing model? BMW's M division boss has lived and breathed this car for three years and knows it better than anyone. He's convinced it's a step forward.

"It's different in a number of areas, but all the intrinsic M3 qualities remain,'' he assures us. "I don't think you'll be disappointed.''

With that, he whips the door shut and guides us up the driveway of the Spanish resort in Marbella where BMW is launching the car. "Let's talk later,'' Richter says with a smile.

The 2008 M3 boasts twice the cylinder count and double the power of the first-generation model, but the M3's appeal has always been its responsiveness, the way its individual components all mesh. Now it seems the engine is taking over. Or is it?

The new M3 was always going to get a...

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