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      07-30-2019, 02:15 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by New2Roundel View Post
I'm not seeing anything on the list that bothers my enthusiast sensibilities. IMO, if BMW keeps offering the M2/3/4 in a manual version I will have no problems with the brand. I don't care what SUVs they add or what other cars they stop producing.
Well if they don't sell a lot of SUVs they will not have the profits to build M2/3/4 cars. Those aren't the high volume cars, and they will die off without SUV sells. It's already happened to Ford. Sedans are gone, and Mustang is holding on, helped by heritage.

Even Porsche has this problem. They sell more SUVs than sportscars and they need the SUVs to sell well to be able to support the small number of 911s they design. Most popular Porsche is Cayenne and Mecan SUVs and 911/Boxster distant third/fourth place.
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