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I don't have any sort of current magazine subscription, and I haven't regularly purchased any in several years so I'm not totally up on all of the current cars that are out. Over the past year or several months, I've come to learn that there's an M2 and and M4 in addition to the M3, M5 M6, and X6M. I was getting curious, so I checked the BMW website to try to figure out what was out there. Wow, M2, M3, M4, M5, M6, X5M and X6M. No Z4 M anything, no M1. It looks like pretty much everything is a turbo now, and the 1 series has a 3 cyl. The M2-M4s are all back to straight 6 (but all turbo) and the bigger vehicles are all V-8s.

I thought that when the 1 series came out there was a very sporty option. I guess that's gone, but has been replaced by the M2. I'm guessing the M2 is kind of what the M3 used to be now that the M3 is bigger with more power. I guess the M3 and M4 are basically the same cars other than one being a 2dr coupe and the other being a 4dr sedan?

I'm a bit surprised that they don't have something more M-like at the bottom end, but I guess the Z is reasonably sporty without there being an M version. That's too bad, because I thought the old clown show M-coupe was really cool. I'm assuming that those of us that did were in a fairly small club.

Still, they seem to have a huge range of vehicles.