BMW M3

摘要

My M3 came with the standard exhaust because there's no sportier exhaust on the options list. It sounded pretty good actually: bassy and noisy enough to prickle the senses but with an edge of artificiality that irritated me. Anyway, "sounded" is the operative word here, because then I found out that there is an optional sports exhaust, it just doesn't appear on the configurator. It's called, with no sense of irony, the M Performance Silencer System and it's made for BMW by Prototechnik. It's a relatively easy retrofit as there's no welding or electronic work required: just unplug the old tubes aft of the manifold and bolt the new one on - takes about 90 minutes all told. The pre-pipes are made from lightweight stainless steel, and the silencer box and finishers are titanium. More irony surrounding use of the word "silencer".