The e designation is really not much more than a version number. Much like software companies use version designations to distinguish a newer release from an older release, that's basically what BMW is doing as well. And keep in mind that the e designation is really an internal thing to BMW and they generally don't refer to their vehicles to the public with those designations.
I find the e designations helpful because when someone says that they have a 325 I don't know whether they are referring to an e30, an e36, an e46 or an e90.
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Originally Posted by X5Jay
No offense, but I don't think that's a good idea. Merc has a whole product line of "E" vehicles - that's the number one reason. 2 - it annoys that hell out of me that BMW uses 2 names for their vehicles. Sure - there may be a good reason for it, but I just can't keep track and it drives me crazy when people use the "E" designators instead of the real name of the car - wouldn't that be so much easier? It's very frustrating to me when I read an interesting post and I don't know what the hell the subject vehicle is! 3 - after working for a software company for the past 14 years, I've become acronym-phobic. We use so many acronyms at work, I could probably give a 50 page slide presentation and not use a real word on the entire thing - all the hard-core geeks would probably have woodies and the others like me would be getting sicker by the slide. Anyhow - if you think you'll like it - go for it. And again, no offense - this is probably just the tip of the iceberg of a much deeper medical issue that I've got brewing here....
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