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      05-10-2014, 01:31 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by antzcrashing View Post
Saying something and it happening are different... Bmw said this M3 (2015) was getting CF chassy way back, instead all it got was CF roof, ie costs were inhibitive to produce this for production parts and its still unseen whether that will change. Also out of curiousity I got an insurance quote for an i3, its absurd, likely due to high probability of totaling the CF frame
Ah, ok. Under that context, your original comment makes more sense to me. I hear what you're saying. It seems now that BMW is actually producing their own CFRP that the reality is closer of the regular series cars and M cars getting a more intense CFRP treatment.

It might have been a desire or goal with the current gen M3/M4 but timing didn't work out. It seems to me to make sense by using this sizable investment to improve all newly developed BMW cars now that that a fully functioning production facility for CFRP.

Keep in mind the development process of several years likely makes it that models coming out within the next several years which have already been under development likely won't benefit from this as they're too far along their development cycle to make substantial changes. However within a generation or two I think it'll be more ubiquitous across the full range of BMW models.

Surely BMW didn't make a $2 billion investment into this technology of mass producing CFRP to only keep it for a select niche set of vehicles.
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