[Cyberdemon]

I don't disagree with you, but again - some people pay to play. The guys who show up with their fully prepped GT3 being pulled by their Cayenne S Turbo are cool with their $20,000 brake jobs.

And while I am not in a tax bracket to make that call, after doing the M school and having the chance to compare back to back the E92 M3 and the F10 M5/M6 the benefit of the carbon brakes is very quickly apparent. Through 2 days of abuse the bigger M5 never had a hint of fade and gave you huge confidence to push the 4400lb as hard as you wanted to. The much lighter M3 even with the competition package it was clear when you pushed too hard and were starting to get fade.

The M school runs carbon brakes on all their cars, and they said the life of their rotors was much better than the steel rotors on the older cars, but they're also not paying MSRP for the parts so who knows how often the cars are in for new brakes.