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Originally Posted by Artemis
The "C" in "CS" has been a source of "Confusion" over the past couple of years.
I will dedicate a comment looking for clues in the forthcoming days.
As BMW M marketing unequivocally pointed out yesterday that the "CS" model designation nowadays stands for "Competition Sport", then this choice is due to be respected.
However, quite peculiarly, "Competition Sport" is nowhere mentioned in F82 M4 CS, F80 M3 CS or F87 M2 CS / F87 M2 CS Racing official press materials. Instead occasionally some "Clubsport" name dropping (without stating that "CS" stands for "Clubsport" / "Club Sport" though). Seems to have worked because, judging by Google results, many car magazines assumed that the "CS" rebooted in 2017 with the F82 M4 CS, stands for "Clubsport" / "Club Sport".
You probably also know that the Volkswagen group already uses the "Clubsport" / "Club Sport" moniker since several years (2016 VW Golf GTI Clubsport, 2020 VW Golf GTI Clubsport, Porsche 981 Cayman GT4 Clubsport, Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport, Clubsport Package for Porsche cars, PCA Clubsport series). No idea whether that was of any influence at all, though.
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The CS probably doesn’t stand for Clubsport because BMW used to have a regular 3 series model called Clubsport.
https://www.supercars.net/blog/2002-...0ci-clubsport/