Re: How are these Japanese luxury brands doing these days?

"DaveW" <yzfr1ny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On 7 May 2007 22:43:10 -0700, norak <k.norak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>On May 8, 5:25 am, DaveW <yzfr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:37:11 -0600, "Kikune Mikutamo"
>>>
>>> <mun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> >I doubt the typical BMW owner ranks "reliability" tops.  They sure as
>>> >hell wouldn't rank "isolation" high either.  Their electronics, in 
>>> >terms
>>> >of I-Drive, are almost universally reviled.  But performance?
>>> >Got a Lexus you'd like to line up against an M3?
>>>
>>> The IS-F, in dealer****ps in early '08, will cost about the same as an
>>> M3, be about the same size, and have about 70 more horsepower.
>>
>>The BMW M3 has 420 hp. That would mean the IS-F would have 490 hp. I
>>heard Lexus say power would be over 400 but I haven't heard anyone say
>>whether it would be 490.
>
> An M3 has 333 hp.

In the "future vehicles" section at bmwusa.com, BMW says that the new M3 
will have 420 HP.
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Ray O
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