You can read the give-and-take "lightweight" in nearly every other automotive press release, but usually the buzzword is not reflected in the total weight. Ever increasing size and tougher rubber regulations atomic number 82 to a bigger weight, and almost no manufacturer seems to be able to escape this maze.

Mod suspension technology is able to hibernate the increased weight in most of the every twenty-four hour period driving situations, but when it comes to sporty driving or even visiting racetracks, no technology is able to overcome the weight. Today, even some sporty cars from well-known manufacturers are shut or fifty-fifty to a higher place 2 tons weight.

Packeisen Motorsport from Wuppertal in Germany comes to show us quite the opposite. Based on the current M3, Packeisen volition unveil their PM3 V8 CSL Calorie-free in Spring 2011 and the weight savings achieved with their modded vehicle are difficult to ignore. In this case the word Light is not used in vain.

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Picture show shows the PM3 GTM, not the new PM3 V8 CSL Calorie-free. Pics will be available in Apr 2011.

To attain his ambitious goals, Ulli Packeisen had to literally plough every bolt and no major efforts have been spared. The motorcar features a stripped-out interior, racing seats and plastic windows. On top of these upfront weight savings, you besides get a hood, a trunk lid and doors made of carbon fiber. Many screws take been replaced past parts made of titanium, magnesium or aluminium.

In the end, there will be a curb weight, according to EU regulations, of only 1,300 kilograms (ii,850 lbs), including the driver and all the fluids necessary for driving. Packeisen also managed to get the weight perfectly balanced betwixt the axles, so everything is set for mindblowing operation.

PM3 CSL Low-cal is too congenital with the race  rails in the dorsum of its mind. The car is fitted with an FIA-approved rubber cell, an airjack organisation for faster tire changes and a tank volume of no less than 100 liters.

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As seen in racing, everything is set for the fastest acceleration to the maximum speed. Packeisen sets the auto to be at maximum revs when reaching the brakepoint of the Döttinger Höhe, the longest straight line of the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife.

On this runway the automobile should be able the achieve laptimes of less than 7:30 minutes. The achievement is even greater since information technology comes due to the low weight and perfect balance of the car. The engine is being tuned up and should be capable of no less than 485 bhp.

Despite having a bias towards racing technology, the PM3 CSL Light is route-legal. To suit all needs and tastes, Packeisen will congenital the auto to your specifications, from route-legal to a true race car.

Heavily reducing the weight comes with a toll in homo-hours. More than 500 hours of handcraft are necessary to create the PM3 V8 CSL Light and due to this immense effort only four of these race cars for the road tin be built per year.

The price will be set at around 16,.000 Euro for customers in Federal republic of germany.

All pictures showing the PM3 GTM, not the even more hardcore PM3 V8 CSL Lite.
Pictures volition be available in bound 2011.

(Source: Packeisen via BimmerToday.de)