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Originally Posted by admranger
While I understand how you could come to that conclusion, and maybe you are correct, I have owned an M3 in every chassis version ever built up to the F-series (including an E30M3 which was bombastic as hell) and I raced an E36M3. Both cars in my sig pic were mine. I know M cars and I know loud (open race exhaust). It's not a Lotus FFS, it's 3500lbs of chubby-ness. I'd have thought they could have dedicated some of those lbs to making the cabin somewhat quiet. If I could get anything other than an M car in a manual transmission, I probably would.
The M2 seemed much more noisy compared to other M cars I've been in, including my E90M3. Maybe i was expecting quieter given it was newer and M certainly doesn't mean what it used to mean. 
Seems I'm not alone when there's more than one thread dedicated to how noisy the M2 is inside.
And one more thing: you kids get off my lawn!  |
I rode in a friends E90 M3, and i'm pretty sure it was quieter than my M2C. The suspension was also softer (though maybe it was just the longer wheelbase fooling me, I didn't drive the car after all.)
I'd say its loud in the M2C relative to most cars, but not relative to most sports cars. Its not something that bothers me, but i totally get it. We're all allowed to have our own pet peeves.