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Originally Posted by HTXE93
I went to the MX1 CCA gathering this weekend. There was a guy from BMW NA who works in product planning, and he fielded a few questions from the crowd after his presentation.
The first was about the G81, and the BMW NA guy once again emphatically confirmed that NA is not going to get the G81. Further, he said no amount of letter writing or petitioning was going to do it either, as even the European G81 is quite late in the production cycle, and bringing even later to the NA market wouldn't make any sense.
I tried to press him a bit after to see how many units they'd need to move to consider it, and while he wouldn't give an actual number, he said a couple thousand G81s wouldn't be enough.
For what it's worth, he said he's a big wagon guy himself and follows the one-off builds that people do on older models, reads the enthusiast posts on forums, etc.
Yet another confirmation that it seems the only way to get a G81 is move to Europe.  |
1. Join the military
2. Pick a job that has postings in Germany
3. Get a rotation to Germany written into your contract
4. Order your M3 wagon (at a very nice discount) through the military sales with a Germany delivery address
5. Rotate back to the states and have the military ship your car for free
Off the top of my head there are at least a few jobs that have a 12 week basic training, 1 year or less assignment to Germany, and can be done in a Reserve capacity vs active duty. So basically you'd be a weekend warrior back here in the states (1 weekend a month for a couple years) and get to go live in Germany for a bit while your car is being built. It's also possible (depending on your line of work) to continue to do your civilian job while stationed abroad...or, some companies will just hold your job for you while you're on active status. Even better, some will continue to pay the difference in salary between your civilian job and military pay.
Yeah...that should get you one into the US without worrying about all that pesky tens of thousands in shipping costs.
