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The BMW M3 has won Popular Mechanics’ 2008 Automotive Excellence
Award in the performance category, presented at the Los Angeles Auto Show.
“We are thrilled that the 2008 BMW M3 has won this year’s Automotive
Excellence Award for performance,” said Tom Purves, Chairman and CEO, BMW (US)
Holding Corp.
“BMW is dedicated to engineering vehicles that provide consumers with the
ultimate driving experience and superior performance, so it is especially
gratifying that the BMW M3 has won the award in the performance category.”
The all-new M3 Coupé and M3 Sedan—made their North American debuts at the LA
Auto Show. The BMW M3 Coupé has been on sale in Australia since October this
year and the 2007 allocation of vehicles is completely sold out.
In its December 2007 article about the awards, Popular Mechanics automotive editors praise the new V8-powered BMW M3 as “..one of the few
performance cars that can triumph at weekend track days and still carry four
friends in perfect comfort and luxury to an evening movie...The M3 is elegant and
powerful, and it does its job at a comfort level not many cars can match.”
Each year, to determine the winners of the Popular Mechanics
Automotive Excellence Awards, the magazine’s editors drive more than 100 of the
newest cars, trucks and sport-utility vehicles, amassing well over 100,000 miles
in the process. Through their experiences on extended test drives around the
world, instrumented comparison tests and longer-term evaluations, the auto team
nominates a list of vehicles in each category. Those selections are put to a
vote and the top vote getters in each category win an Automotive Excellence
Award.
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