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Originally Posted by kyrix1st
It’s a near 200K car that offers marginally better performance than 120K M5. No surprise it didn’t get stellar reviews.
They still would have had a hard time selling this even under perfect circumstances where CFRP driveshaft/body parts/DCT/latest hybrid technology are used yet the hardware is identical to the M5. That ZF gearbox is a major reason why the car feels like a slightly modified M850i, which every reviewer mentions.
Maybe the majority of customers nowadays are generous enough to buy a supposedly halo car that is hardly different from its base model.
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Little correction here, it's important to compare like to like. Lots of people are talking about the M8 being a nearly-$200k car, when the highest you can possibly get is with an M8 Comp Convertible at $188,275, with literally every option imaginable including $5000 for frozen paint, $8,150 for CCBs, and $2,300 for Night Vision, all of which are options that almost nobody gets. Take those out at you're at $172,825.
I get it's relatively close to the $200k mark, but that's for a maxed out M8 Convertible. A better comparison to the M5 would be an M8 Coupe (or Gran Coupe, now), and if you're comparing max to max, an M5 tops out at $142,280. A $30k jump, which is hardly the $60-80k jump it seems some people think there is.
I'm not marginalizing how much more expensive the M8 is, but you can't say the M8 is a near-$200k car that's too similar to a $120k M5...