A good friend of mine drives a 1st gen Focus I just remembered, it only has 75 or 90 bhp I think (not sure which) but he knows more about them than I do.

One thing I know for sure is that even the 1st gen Focus has a better rear axle than the actual VW Golf.


A very good example what just came to my mind what shows how different some things can be is the E36 M3.

The US version just has a modified M52 engine, its based on the engine I have in my little car.

The European one is way more powerful, is quicker and has a higher top speed.

the engine is completely different to the US Version, it comes with a single throttle body i.e., 3 power levels were available, two of them were 3 liter engines, the more powerful of the two found its place in the 356 units limited M3 GT.

Except for the more power the GT got it also has aluminum lightweight doors, carbon fibre applications, special moldings, a plate with its number on the glove box (xxx/356), suede interieur and full bodykit with huge front splitter and wing.

only available in British Racing green, a friend of mine has one of them with a brand new motor in it, I could post pics later.

The Brits got a 50 units limited M3 GT2 Evo what is basicly the same as the GT but it was available with the 3.2 liter engine, has a way cooler interieur, also suede but with red accents and only came in Imola Red II, same color I got on my car, really hard to find on the E36s.


here's a register website of both cars http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...26tbs%3Disch:1

pictures

http://www.m3gtregister.com/img/gt2/39-50.jpg

(3rd row from top) http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...26tbs%3Disch:1

http://www.mym3.co.uk/images/DSC00733.JPG

in this are 3 front splitter pics of my friends M3 GT, you have to scroll down
http://www.bmw-syndikat.de/bmwsyndik...BMW_-_E36.html


What America got instead wasn't that bad at all, IMHO I think it was even better than the M3 GT.
America got the M3 CSL or also called Lightweight, avaiable only in Alpine white with M-color sticker stripes on it.

It had so many remarkeable things I'm to lazy to type them all in here so I just give you a link.

http://www.qv500.com/bmwe36m3p3.php

only thing what I think it's weird that it hasn't got the real M3 seats from the coupe with the headrests which give the seats a bucket-seat like look :-/

The Lightweight, the GT and the GT2 Evo share the same bodykit, so you can tell alone by the color which is which