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Originally Posted by Artemis
Trivia fun fact about the E82 1M: the 1M was initially supposed to get halogen headlights as standard equipment, rather than the more expensive Xenon headlights. Reason: BMW M intended to launch the 1M onto the German market in 2011 for less than €50K (entry level BMW M car).
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A modern M model vehicle with incandescent headlights... Yuck..
M variants are positioned as the higher-tier/performing BMWs, who's backwards idea was that to add some '80s-era lighting technology onto one of them, standard, regardless of the cost.
I'm glad physical limitations prevailed and to add to your trivia, its might be the only reason the 1M was given LCI taillights also, even though it was a 2011 model year (regular 1 Series had 2012 for the LCI); Xenon LCI headlights required a FRM3 (footwell module), which only worked in conjunction with the LED taillights, for that generation.