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Originally Posted by Red Bread
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Originally Posted by SamS
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Originally Posted by Red Bread
Of course it is. Most vents on BMW's are fake.
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Right, but not on Ms (except for M2 that is). |
There's a long history of fake M vents. Z3M, E46 M3, E90 M3, E60 M5, F10 M5 all have fake side vents, The X5 M has sported a fake diffuser for most generations. The Z8 had fake side vents. There's more, but this certainly isn't anything new to M Land. |
I can't speak to the other cars, but I recall a great debate over the e46 M3 side Gill functionality when the car came out.
It was a big design element with BMW marketing the heck out of it - seemed strange that the design and marketing team pushed an aesthetic non-functional component.
Turns out engineers from BMW claimed one side was functional (but the functional side depended on geography) to cool the ECU.