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MEnthusiast · 28th March 2002, 05:15

it wasnt designed to be a M. The story I heard from several people "in the know" is: BMW wanted a SUV to compete with the AMG model. They wanted it to market ASAP but they didnt have time to do the full M treatment to it, so they looked at doing some tweaks and developed the 4.6. At the time, the plan was to put out a full M version 18 months after the 4.6 debuted. But it seems to me that plan might be on hold- perhaps they will do this when they do the next gen X5...........

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MEnthusiast Moderator Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: East Coast, USA Posts: 10,340 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	it wasnt designed to be a M. The story I heard from several people "in the know" is: BMW wanted a SUV to compete with the AMG model. They wanted it to market ASAP but they didnt have time to do the full M treatment to it, so they looked at doing some tweaks and developed the 4.6. At the time, the plan was to put out a full M version 18 months after the 4.6 debuted. But it seems to me that plan might be on hold- perhaps they will do this when they do the next gen X5........... __________________ All the best, Jerry 00 Z8 Jet Black/Red Sport / some others