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Originally Posted by PrematureApex
Although they're not fitted with decent pads, upping the number of pistons (besides normally netting you some added pedal feel) isn't necessarily increasing braking performance.
For all we know, the BMW single pots deliver more brake torque than the 6-pots, all its all piston area, no number thereof.
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Yeah I'd rather have larger rotors over more pots any day of the week, but the M3 is a tank at 3704lbs compared to the 3373 of the 135 (331lb diff). The rotors are 14.2/13.8 on the m3 compared to 13.3/12.8 on the 135... diff of .9/1.0 inches.
weird that it is not clear that the marquee car that is the M3 has better brakes than the 1 series of all things.
In any event, ours look better and thats half the battle....