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Originally Posted by JMcLellan
The 3rd car I ever owned was a 2002 Mazda Protege purchased late in the model year right before the 2003's came out. In 2003 Mazda released a Mazdaspeed version of the Protege which was about a million percent better (about $7 to $8 K more. They added a turbocharger to the 2.0 liter n/a motor, came with really sweet wheels, new body components, cool interior, way better stereo system, and other stuff. I was soooo fricken pissed and wanted out of my 2002 Protege as soon as I heard about the new car.
This M2 scenario is nowhere near the same but as a recent buyer of a 2024 it's a little annoying. None of the 2025 updates are going to matter that much to me but I know I will be tempted by the future comp or CS models assuming BMW does produce them for the M2.
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I had 3 Mazdaspeed Proteges... a yellow and two orange. From full show car/built engine/custom turbo kit builds, to tube chassis drag car builds, and the last one I left as a DD (which turned into my autoX/track car on the weekends since my other two were under construction for most of their lives). Man, those were great cars back then! What gave me the bug, and what got me into my first e46 M3... since then I haven't looked back! Except the one time I owned an S4 for 7 weeks... but I don't like to talk about that much...
