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Originally Posted by IanH
Also correct.
This thread is about M cars, and people are discussing whether M-lites are M cars.
The "i4 M50" is not an "M car", factually accurate.
Glad that you got the only one in the world that can do more than 16 miles at full blast before needing hours of charging. So blessed and lucky.
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You moved the goal post and inserted "track statistics" into the argument. The argument was what makes an M car an M car? It's not necessarily track, because only a small fraction of M owners track their cars. I have an M2 on order for the track.
The i4 M50 doesn't fit M-Lite or M to be factually accurate. It is the only M-Lite or non-M with an M landing page.
https://www.bmwusa.com/vehicles/m-se...technical-data
They also put the electrified M models on the same page with the XM and
ttps://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/m-power-electrified.html G90 M5.
The i4 M50 has a drivetrain that isn't used in another variant of i4 or any other EV (bespoke motors). The i4 M50 has bespoke suspension unique in the i4 M50. You can get options on the M50 that you can't get on any other i4 or 4GC. You can get full merino leather. It's been marketed as the first ever EV tuned by the Motorsports Division. While they don't call it an M it has bespoke parts that separate it from a traditional M-Lite.
So while it's factually true that it's not M, it smokes any M-Light variant and most M3/4 on the streets; 544hp and almost 600lb-ft of torque.
But sure, by most definitions it's not an M.