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Originally Posted by bimmerjph
That is only 300lbs (135kg) ligter. That is massively disappointing for a carbon fiber car. I was hoping, no, expecting at least 400lbs. And if BMW adds a 4 banger model for the 7er, then that 300lbs looks even worse.
These electronics have to be lightened too. It doesn't matter if BMW lightens the chassis by 500lbs if they then add in 455lbs of electronic bs that no one ever uses.
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Given that the next 7-er will undoubtedly be bigger, with more gizmo's, and it will probably be safer too... even managing to keep the weight the same as the current F01 would be an achievement.. dropping it by 200kg is Fantastic.... If BMW offered an E92 M3 CSL edition that was 200kg lighter people would think it was the best thing in the world! This would pretty much be the lightest generation of 7-er since the first one (E23)! Again, if BMW did the same thing with the 3-er and got it back to the weight of the first generation (E21) weight of around 1 ton.. it would be epic (never going to happen though!)
I think you need to give them more credit.