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Originally Posted by bkfastwagon
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Originally Posted by babaikram
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Originally Posted by bkfastwagon
Lets be honest here. Most people who buy bmw care about the badge and could care less about the dynamics or the performance. Ask a typical BMW driver (not M owners) if he or she knows what engine is in the car or the horse power/torque or the type of tires so on.
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Rubbish. So only M owners know about their cars |
Forum members are not typical BMW drivers. Yes, there are more performance variants offered by bmw than Lexus. No you don't have to own an M version to be a bmw enthusiast. But we are still a tiny fraction of bmw customers. What percentage of typical bmw owners know what type of engine's in their car? In addition, if you go outside of US vast majority of 5 series are 4cyl diesels. |
Exactly, last time I was at my BMW dealership I was looking at an M550i and I met a customer about to buy his fifth 5 series. He said he loved the 5 series. I asked him what he liked the most about his F10 and he said that he loved the 3.5L V6 in his 535i. I then went on to explain BMW's convoluted naming scheme and what types of engine each model uses to him
Before this day he had never heard of an inline 6 once in his life!