[jtodd_fl]

This thread is amusing. I do believe that in this type of car, you are supposed to hear the world around you. I get what some are saying... they want more of a sport luxury car. The problem is that you cannot really make a car to fit every niche. It is simply not what the M has stood for. You want something different than they want to make. Porsche does this well, and people bitch. They offer a fairly stripper car, then charge $147,391 in extras to add things that come standard in many other cars. The M is a compromise between true race/sport and true road/luxury - it always has been. Where on that spectrum of compromise is up for debate, but that it IS, in fact, a compromise, really is not.

Edit: It was why the CSL was so beloved - it was a far less compromised sports car.