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Sorry to perpetuate this thread hijack, but thought I'd throw out a couple pictures of my '88 M3 and '74 tii together a few years ago when I briefly owned both at the same time. Got to give BMW credit from the late 60's through the E30 model run in '91 of staying true to the vision of offering a lightweight and reasonably powerful 4-cylinder sports sedan, rear wheel drive of course (I forgive them for the pollution control strangled U.S. spec E21 series 320i). I don't think anyone else had a run like that including Alfa. Maybe in Europe a 75/Milano Twinspark would qualify as the spiritual successor to the Giulia Super, but in the U.S. we weren't lucky enough to see that version. After the BMW E30, things went kind of kablooey with each successive 3-series generation getting bigger and heavier, although the E36 318ti offered a glimmer of hope until that model was killed off as not being upscale enough for U.S. BMW buyers. Even the diminutive (BMW) Mini Cooper weighs as much as the E30 M3 and the new bloated 1-series makes my all-wheel drive 325iX look like a lightweight.
Gary
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73 Giulia Super 2.0 (Prugna)
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