YouTube - M3 Touring vs B3 Touring vs M340i Touring

[Jules Sunleu]

Good video tonight from The Intercooler channel on the Tube of Youness.

https://youtu.be/j49ldhANVqQ?si=r-v96fozYdpK2Z9r

[B10BRW]

Another moronic so called car expert who calls Alpina a tuner

[yamyam20]

Thanks for the link.

[andy-integrale]

I was looking forward to the video, as I subscribe to the Intercooler and had read Andrew Frankel's written piece in which he came to the same conclusion.

"It’s not just that it feels so different to the BMWs, nor that its feel is so characteristically Alpina. The fact is that for almost all of almost every journey it just works the best. Of course ideally you’d have the engine of the M3 in the chassis of the B3 at the price of the M340i, but that’s not the way the world works.

The Alpina’s margin of victory may be small, but so too is it clear. That small band of miracle workers from Buchloe in Bavaria have done it again."

I know the engine is the engine of the M3, but it's the throttle response all the way through that they conclude is sharper in the M3 even from low down.

[Jonnywishbone]

I dailied an E86 for years. Great car but with a ridiculously firm and brittle suspension setup (at least in combination with the OEM Bridgestone RFT’s). So I’m sure I could live with whatever the M3 has to offer in terms of spine-shuddering (lack of) compliance.

But every time I look at the B3, I smile. I never fail to take one last look back at it when walking away. I couldn’t even attempt to look at the M3 if it was straight after a meal. The M3 could be better in every other conceivable way (and it isn’t) but the gopping front end would still be a dealbreaker. I’d sooner take the Mlite.

[Jules Sunleu]

Thanks for the link.

Very welcome