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03-13-2020, 08:20 AM
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#398
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Lieutenant Colonel 
Drives: BMW M240ix
Join Date: Jun 2019
Location: A Place I Like To Call “You’ll See”
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Originally Posted by Tracus
The turbo fobia started because of the taxes reglementation in Europe. Every vehicle until 2000 cubic cm has a normal tax system. Once you passed the 2000cmc the taxes are sky high. The amount of taxes asked for V6 (forget V8 and so on) are enormous.
For this reason everyone tried to squeeze as much power as possible from a 2.0 l engine.
Sad but that's the story.
BMW just followed suit in this one as the people that buy a V6 / I6 in Europe are very few.
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Thank you government.
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