| | BMW Heritage » 1999-2006 - E46 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | In 1999 the first of the newly restyled E46 3 Series rolled off the line, being that the E36 was introduced one model at a time the E46 did the same starting with the 323i and 328i saloons. |
 | | BMW engineers claimed the body was 70 percent stiffer than it’s counterpart the E36 and the larger wheelbase allowed for perfect 50/50 weight distribution. |
 | | What did BMW do to make this monster of a motor individual throttle bodies (Europe has had this since the first 95 E36 M3 rolled out), tweaked the variable valve timing, an 8,000 RPM redline and what BMW calls one of the freest-flowing exhuasts ever installed in a production car”. |
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