I wasn’t quite happy with the looks of the new BMW 3-series and wasn’t expecting the M3 to change anything. But, everything changed the day BMW released the details of the E92 M3 coupe last year.
And from that day, I have been Dreaming… I have been Drooling… I have been Restless… like a 15 year old teenager going gaga for Angelina Croft.
I cannot say M3 is beautiful. Its a thing of lust. It looks mean and menacing – It appeals to the rebellious side of the personality.
As if that wasn’t hard enough, BMW put in a brutal V8 – a first time ever in an M3. This engine is not a lazy one as we’d expect a V8 to be, it can rev all the way to the moon… and back!. The redline starts at 8300 rpm.
And now, BMW India has launched this Bavarian brute at the Indian Auto Expo 2008. E92 M3 coupe will be imported and sold in India as a CBU and that means we pay a premium price of 7,500,000 in Indian currency.
The engine in the M3 is a 32-valve 4.0L V8 that makes 420 bhp power at 8300 rpm and 400 Nm torque at 3900 rpm. BMW M3 can do the 0-100 km/h in 4.8 secs and the top speed is electronically limited to 250 km/h. BMW even gives us the fuel economy figures, a combined fuel efficiency of 8 km/l.
But hey! if you’re thinking about the M3, you don’t really care! do you?
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These photos show the Audi A4 with the sporty S-line exterior package. Choices are a bigger 18- or 19-inch alloy wheels and two exclusive colors – Misano red and Monza silver. It also gets a black interior including the roof lining and suspension settings are extra-firm.
specs and more pictures after the jump
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Full details of the new Audi A4 2008 model have been released by Audi Ingolstadt in their full press kit. If the car seems very similar at first look, look again and you’ll notice all the subtle changes and find the design very different from the 2007 model. It is longer, wider and more aggressive. One of the immediately apparent detail in the photos and the video is an optional row of 14 white LED lights in each headlamp for daytime driving.
more pictures and video after the jump.
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New Honda Accord sedan, in its 8th generation for the model year 2008, has been redesigned completely. The Accord pretty much rules the D-segment in India, but in the the American market, it faces some serious competition from Toyota & Nissan. Honda’s best-seller is a second to Toyota Camry and is followed by Nissan Altima in terms of sales.
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Chevrolet Optra and the SRV in the local market were made by the GM Daewoo alliance and are sold under different brands in different parts of the world. What is a Chevy for us is a Daewoo in Korea and a Holden in Australia but what blew me down was its a Suzuki for the US, “how?” you might ask, all I know is Suzuki owns a little under 10% share in GM Daewoo. Chevy Optra Magnum gets the first diesel engine built by GM Daewoo and this engine is based on the same block as the one in the Hyundai Elantra, Tucson & Sonata Embera.
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