Sadly though BMW has decided that any car with an M lable on it is now worth about 30K more then the most expensive version of that model in non-M cladding.

Drives me nuts.
When I bought my E46 M3 it cost me 54,000 off the lot. Sitting next to is was a 330Ci that cost 46,500. The Ci price tag was about the most expensive non-M 3 series on the lot putting the M edition about 14% higher then the most expensive non-M. Now BMW has gone insane and deemped M-cars as nearly limited edition exotics. Think about this, the new 5 series (530XI) cost about $58,000 well equipped. Now the M5 on the other hand costs a little more then $83,000. This is a 43% increase in price, that is insane. And the 6 series to M6 relationship will be even worse. I guess I'm pretty much in the minority in believeing that BMW is attempting to over value its products to compete with MB but so be it.

My prediction on the cost of the new M3....

47K-48K being the high end of the 3 series so that would put the M3 around:$68-70,000.

Again, IMO.

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