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Originally Posted by cfm56d7b

You are actually more than right. Its just BMW R&D budget has other priorities. Illustrating what might have transpired during the last BMW board meeting:

- Let's start with sales projections (Plan A - XM exceeds sales targets;
Plan B - X5 sales save the day)

- Subtract profit target

- That leaves money for everything else: R&D, manufacturing, European Delivery (oh — we canceled that ...)

- Let's see who is asking for money

- Electric vehicle teams tell us that cars are heavier and more suspension tuning is required; plus battery development teams need more money for solid state batteries. We get it; regression to Oldsmobile handling is less than desired. Your budget is increased.

- M3 is selling well; 20 more HP can be added by simply tuning the DME software in an engine where the design can accommodate even larger HP increases. No budget increase for you.

So the wish to achieve a near perfection in handling and steering dynamics is undoubtedly there. Corporate budgets are a zero sum game.

I agree!!! 100%