Often considered to be the first M-car despite being designed and built before the founding of BMW Motorsport GMBH, the BMW 3.0 CSL was, essentially, the race car version of the CS—itself a sort of two-door grand tourer.
The key to the CSL was the L, which stood for lightweight (actually, it stood for “leicht,” the German word for lightweight, …
Wait, so if you take a CS, gut all the weight out of it to make it a CSL and then the weight back in, isn't it just a CS again?
It was just a way to charge the cusomter for removing weight, and then charging them again to put it back in. Apparently, it didn’t work all that well.
Didn't the CSL using thinner body panels even for the steel cars?
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