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Originally Posted by heavyD^2
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Originally Posted by ProperBimmer
FWD and competitor for the CLA.....my god has it really come to this garbage?
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It's a big market segment as far as luxury automakers go. Audi has sold up to 35K current generation A3's per year in the US and MB up to 29k CLA's in a year. Those sales numbers would represent 15% of all BMW passenger US car sales for 2018 so you can understand why they may want to take a share of that untapped market. We all love the M cars but it's the bread and butter cars for the masses that pay the bills. Some of you have such unreasonable expectations of automakers and I wonder if you have any understanding of the automotive industry or big business in general as niche cars don't pay the bills. |
Agree with everything you said, it's just a damn shame the "pure" 2 series is now bastardized for the masses. But yeah I get it, all that shit pays the bills