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BMW says they will have 9 new electric vehicles by 2025, at some point other models may have to go. I think the 8 series could easily be gone. I also wonder about vehicles like the X4. Car companies make the very high dollar luxury vehicles at low volumes as the profit per vehicle is very high but the X4 sold less than 8k vehicles last year. I also wonder about the number of drivetrain options for each model being reduced (number of engines and awd/rwd) and also think this type of logic is how the manual transmission went away from almost every model.
They sold 26k 5 series cars this year and have
530 rwd
530 awd
540 rwd
540 awd
530e rwd
530e awd
M550i awd
M5
With 8 powertrain options for 26k cars would be interesting to see how many of each variation were sold (my guess is 530 awd is the greatest volume) and if they all really make sense. Few want to special order and fewer variations to be built reduces overall cost.
The 5 light truck models easily outsold the 12 car models although I don't know why the X1 and X2 are cars and the X3 is a light truck.
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2006 Z4M Coupe - Stromung exhaust, ZHP knob, stubby antenna, clutch delay delete
Last edited by David70; 01-06-2021 at 01:05 PM..
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