[Burrcold]

Originally Posted by tturedraider

The Motorsport designation began with the E12 M535i in 1979, so it’s been around for 45 years. It’s nothing new.

https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/maga...m535i-e12.html

Right, but that was also BMW Motorsport (later "M") that was engineering the higher performance model. The "M" now is 99% ///Marketing and we all know it. I was under no assumption that my previous M340i was an "M car". I would have been happier if they had kept the F30 340i M Sport moniker.