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      01-15-2019, 01:23 PM   #243
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Apologies if we're a little on edge about that damn grey/stainless muffler. The rest of the car is pretty damn sweet so it's become our collective bitching focus!

Nice looking car you got there!
hahaha, I agree. It's the ugliest part of the car. My previous car was an M2 N55 pre-LCI. Now ... just picked up the competition they will change the tail lights

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      01-15-2019, 01:24 PM   #244
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I thought the taillights were already pretty dark. How much darker are they gonna get? Does anyone have a pic of the new taillights?

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      01-15-2019, 01:35 PM   #245
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That's kind of funny that BMW is photoshopping the muffler out of the brochures for the car. I can't blame them though as the rear mounted garbage can is something you don't really want to advertise in sales pictures or advertisements.
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I thought the taillights were already pretty dark. How much darker are they gonna get? Does anyone have a pic of the new taillights?
Never mind, :

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      01-15-2019, 05:02 PM   #247
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One of our resident photoshop wizards needs to do a quick current lights/new lights gif so we can see the difference....
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      01-15-2019, 08:57 PM   #248
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Yeah can someone photoshop the new taillights?

I wonder what the cost would be to swap
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      01-15-2019, 10:24 PM   #249
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They really emphasize the "darken" taillights, in all their new MY lineup, as if its a ground-breaking improvement.. It was mentioned twice in just one paragraph..

That just confirms they don't have much tricks left to throw at the F platform, before they completely revamp the series..

Expect a few more cosmetic "special editions" to be released before the F-series chassis finally sunsets..
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They really emphasize the "darken" taillights, in all their new MY lineup, as if its a ground-breaking improvement.. It was mentioned twice in just one paragraph..

That just confirms they don't have much tricks left to throw at F platform, before they completely revamp the series..

Expect a few more cosmetic "special editions" to be released before the F-series chassis finally sunsets..
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If someone tints their lights and posts it on here it would get next to no reaction. When BMW does it everyone gets excited. I'll give it to them, their marketing team really knows their demographics and how to pull strings to maximize profits. I'd be terrible at it. Can imagine being in a meeting and someone saying "let's tint the tail lights!" while my reaction would be "are you seriously, that's how you want to drive sales, with some lame tints?". I'd be so wrong.
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      01-15-2019, 10:46 PM   #251
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The M2C has had a black muffler on the bmwusa website since the M2C was first added last year. It's just a modified picture cause bmw knows it's ugly. I wonder if it counts as false advertising.
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I imagine they'll be pretty expensive, but I think they'll be a nice (and no doubt popular) retrofit item.
The LCI tails I bought and retrofitted onto my Pre-LCI were ~$500usd so I'd imagine these will cost more or less the same. Pretty reasonable if you ask me.
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They really emphasize the "darken" taillights, in all their new MY lineup, as if its a ground-breaking improvement.. It was mentioned twice in just one paragraph..

That just confirms they don't have much tricks left to throw at F platform, before they completely revamp the series..

Expect a few more cosmetic "special editions" to be released before the F-series chassis finally sunsets..
+1

If someone tints their lights and posts it on here it would get next to no reaction. When BMW does it everyone gets excited. I'll give it to them, their marketing team really knows their demographics and how to pull strings to maximize profits. I'd be terrible at it. Can imagine being in a meeting and someone saying "let's tint the tail lights!" while my reaction would be "are you seriously, that's how you want to drive sales, with some lame tints?". I'd be so wrong.

It's a tough business to remain innovative and still turn profit. New designed parts and features will mean added researcher and development and product cost. Tinting some taillights is a cop out but saves a bunch of money, as oppose to going back to the drawing board. People talk about Toyota's lack of innovation but BMW plays the same game.

When people rag on Toyota for the BMW influenced Supra, I otherwise understand that they have to stay appealing, abide by all these intricate and costly emission regulations and safety standards and still keep the price reasonable so it could be reachable to their set demo. Sharing R&D with BMW helps them reach that goal.

I'm surprise that US spec BMWs is getting the Blackline taillights as standard. As far as I remembered from the E92 and E82, this particular taillight, because of its reduction of light output, was not legally allowed on US spec vehicles. You could buy them from Europe and have them shipped though.

How come it's ok now? :
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      01-15-2019, 11:10 PM   #254
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The LCI tails I bought and retrofitted onto my Pre-LCI were ~$500usd so I'd imagine these will cost more or less the same. Pretty reasonable if you ask me.
Pretty damn cheap but to be honest the best measure would be what the current tailights cost. Anyone know the cost of the current taillights?
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      01-15-2019, 11:16 PM   #255
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Pretty damn cheap but to be honest the best measure would be what the current tailights cost. Anyone know the cost of the current taillights?
Not sure what you mean. LCI tail lights = M2C tail lights. They're identical and are the current ones in use. Cost is ~$230 per side.

https://www.schmiedmann.com/en/bmw-f...?q=63217420991
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Not sure what you mean. LCI tail lights = M2C tail lights. They're identical and are the current ones in use. Cost is ~$230 per side.

https://www.schmiedmann.com/en/bmw-f...?q=63217420991
Pretty damn cheap all things considered
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That is just photoshop. The German configurator had the black muffler from the beginning. In fact, I just checked and BMW USA shows black muffler for 2019 M2C configurator as well. BMW knows they fucked up with this muffler and this is their way of trying to hide it. If you look at some press releases, they heavily edited/photoshopped the muffler in some of the pics as well. However, it'd be nice if they really made 2020MY with black muffler.
Exactly. This was the case even with the very first configurator pics that showed up.

I still cannot understand how BMW could do this...
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Photoshopping it, means they know it looks bad as is. So why didn't they fucking paint it!
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Really hoping they do something about the rear muffler, it just look so out of place on most of the photos I've seen
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Really hoping they do something about the rear muffler, it just look so out of place on most of the photos I've seen
That's the best looking SO M2C! Oh wait that's mine lmao

To be honest, at most angles the muffler isn't an issue. Directly behind, it's too big. As soon as it warms up, I will paint mine. One can of paint and it disappears.
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That's the best looking SO M2C! Oh wait that's mine lmao

To be honest, at most angles the muffler isn't an issue. Directly behind, it's too big. As soon as it warms up, I will paint mine. One can of paint and it disappears.
Hahaa.. very nice colour indeed!!!
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M2 comp muffler is so ugly

That bmws rendering of the car for the euro delivery experience/feature tutorial has it in black. I thought that was funny.

And also obligatory pic of my new m2c at the welt
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M2 comp muffler is so ugly
This has been discussed for weeks ad nauseam.

Either paint it black or get a new exhaust. Case closed.
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      01-18-2019, 12:19 PM   #264
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Painted with the MP diffuser and it looks boss. Shit painting it was a 10 minute exercise and $5. You guys....
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