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Digi · 28th March 2002, 05:34

I guess we've beat this horse to death, and you are right that the 4.6 is not an M, but the engine was developed and is built by the M folks, the guage cluster is an M guage cluster, and BMWNA send letters and calls people congratulating them on the M 4.6 puchases. M did the suspension, and Martin Birkman of BMWNA said to a bunch of X5ers at a meeting in NY last month that the X5 4.6 was a M, except it had an auto transmission and was a SUV, so they did not want to give it an M badge. They didn't and it isn't.
Cheers!

28th March 2002, 05:34	#9 (permalink)
Digi M5 Guru (>2000 posts) Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,074 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	I guess we've beat this horse to death, and you are right that the 4.6 is not an M, but the engine was developed and is built by the M folks, the guage cluster is an M guage cluster, and BMWNA send letters and calls people congratulating them on the M 4.6 puchases. M did the suspension, and Martin Birkman of BMWNA said to a bunch of X5ers at a meeting in NY last month that the X5 4.6 was a M, except it had an auto transmission and was a SUV, so they did not want to give it an M badge. They didn't and it isn't. Cheers!