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Originally Posted by BlkGS

The suspension is the same with different software tuning. The engine is the same with different tuning. There's some body trim differences, brake differences, and assorted M bits like stitching and the M buttons and some extra chassis braces.

The 50e has a totally different motor, completely different bumpers, completely different suspension, drives totally different... It's a totally different car.

Every single review of the M50, M60, M550, etc all said "this makes the base M redundant because this is so close to it but beats you up less". Even BMW agrees, they dropped the regular M and are only offering the Competition model.

The M.is cool and all, but BMW did too good of a job with their recent M Performance models, and made the less extreme M models redundant.

^^^^^This.